Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been selected by Sainsbury’s to accelerate the retailer’s business growth through a cloud-first strategy.
TCS has been a partner to Sainsbury’s for over a decade, helping the supermarket drive numerous transformation programmes. As a part of the new multi-year partnership, TCS will consolidate and modernise Sainsbury’s IT infrastructure into a hybrid cloud stack using TCS Enterprise Cloud.
By enabling an integrated cloud platform, TCS claim it will build a scalable foundation for a digital core, enabling greater agility, flexibility, and resilience for Sainsbury’s. Additionally, TCS will provide end-to-end managed services for modern workplace services, network connectivity, and security.
This is expected to help Sainsbury’s speed up time to market, create new revenue streams, and enhance agility to respond in real-time to emerging business scenarios. Sainsbury’s stated that it plans to reinvest the savings to achieve its strategic priorities of offering value to customers through innovation and lower costs.
“This platform transformation underpinned by a cloud-first strategy is critical for our business. TCS was the partner of choice given their deep contextual knowledge and ability to align this transformation to our business strategy and vision,” said Phil Jordan, group CIO at Sainsbury’s.
Shankar Narayanan, President, Retail Cluster at TCS, added: “We are excited to expand our partnership with Sainsbury’s and help them achieve their cloud-first strategy while setting up a solid foundation for future growth. With our domain knowledge, technology expertise, and experience in driving business transformations, we will enable Sainsbury’s to achieve digital scale and realise benefits in their value chain.”
