TCS enables Balfour Beatty Utilities to save money and streamline its business processes

TCS enables Balfour Beatty Utilities to save money and streamline its business processes

Leading provider to the utilities sector proposes to save £1.5 million a year as a result of the completed project

December 11, 2006, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the world leading IT consulting, services, business process outsourcing and engineering services organisation, has completed a £1.75million project to streamline Balfour Beatty Utilities Ltd.’s (BBUL) business processes.

BBUL contracted TCS in November 2004 to integrate its systems and simplify its business processes. Prior to the project, the company used several disparate systems, meaning that most operations were disjointed and inefficient. TCS implemented Oracle Applications and a Custom Job Management Solution, as well as providing a variety of services – from process consulting to post implementation support – to streamline the company’s information flow into a single channel. As a result, BBUL will see a range of benefits, from higher employee efficiency to improved planning and risk management.

The successful completion of the project, which spanned one and a half years, means that BBUL is considering TCS for Phase 2 of its Work Management Solution. This will involve rolling out the solution across work management solution across the contract and mobile-enabling BBUL’s current Job Management and Scheduling system, allowing work to be delivered to engineers in real time, as well as immediate feedback to be given on work completed. BBUL is set to save £1.5 million when the solution is fully implemented in all their contracts.

“We chose TCS over its competitors because of its proven track record in the utilities sector,” says Mathew Duncan, Finance Director of BBUL. “We knew that it would be committed to delivering a successful solution. Indeed, TCS has delivered on time and to budget, allowing us to save a large amount of money. As a result, we are very keen to take the relationship forward.”

“This was a complex project, demanding a customised solution, not only for the utilities industry in particular, but also for the construction sector in general, given Balfour Beatty’s overall proposition in the construction business,” says AS Lakshminarayanan, Country Manager, UK & Ireland. “TCS is aiming to build a Construction Industry specific work-management and scheduling product, and the completion of this project takes us a step towards achieving that vision.”

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NOTES TO EDITORS
About Balfour Beatty Utilities Ltd.

Balfour Beatty Utilities (BBUL) is a leading solutions provider in distribution asset management to the UK utilities sector. Working in the water, wastewater and gas industries, BBUL has long term partnerships with many of the UK’s major utility companies, including Yorkshire Water, National Grid and United Utilities.

The company delivers solutions for all types of new lay, maintenance and rehabilitation projects, including water network repair and maintenance, replacement and reinforcement of gas mains, and sewer construction and renewal.

Balfour Beatty Utilities is an Operating Company of Balfour Beatty plc, the fifteenth largest construction company in the world, and the second largest construction company in the UK. Balfour Beatty serves the international markets for rail, road, water, gas and power infrastructure, buildings and complex structures.

About Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the world leading information technology consulting, services, business process outsourcing and engineering services organization that envisioned and pioneered the adoption of the flexible global business practices that today enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value. TCS achieved this by creating and perfecting a unique method of global deployment and delivery of high quality, high value services and products in IT consulting and business process outsourcing. Known as the “Global Delivery Model,” this strategic services delivery concept has reshaped the IT services industry.

More than 95% of TCS customers reward the company’s reliability, passion, creativity, and unique ability to handle the broadest range of their IT needs by continually extending and deepening their partnerships with TCS. With over 70,000 of the world’s best trained IT consultants located in 35 countries, TCS is uniquely positioned to deliver its flexible world class services seamlessly to any location. TCS reported consolidated revenues of $2.97 billion (U.S.) in the fiscal year 2005-2006. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information:www.tcs.com