TCS joins ESRI''s partner programme

New Delhi: ESRI India, an ESRI Inc and NIIT joint venture, has announced that Tata Consultancy Services has joined its ongoing Business Partner Programme aimed at creating new verticals, service lines and expanding the existing geographical information system (GIS) industry segments.

"The ESRI Business Partner Programme enables its partners to further strengthen their developmental capabilities for customised GIS software applications based on the suite of ESRI technologies and leverage this edge to provide cost-effective solutions, to their clients," an NIIT release said here.

TCS has been providing geo spatial solutions as part of its engineering services along with IT consulting services, to its clients globally since the early 1990s.

The company, as part of its existing engineering services, specialises in the usage of ESRI technology to implement turnkey GIS solutions, customised software development, digital database creation, and mobile/field GIS implementation