Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Microsoft announced plans to deliver Business Intelligence and Performance Management (BIPM) solutions to global companies, at the Microsoft-BI Conference in Washington.

“The unique confluence of Microsoft"s technologies such as SQL Server, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 and the 2007 Office system and the elaborate architectural framework offered by TCS provides customers with a solution ecosystem supporting organisational agility, efficiency and adaptability,” said Santosh Mohanty, global head, BIPM Practice, TCS. “TCS has an aggressive plan to grow this practice by doubling the consultant base in the next two years and expects to achieve accelerated double digit growth using Microsoft technologies.”

“We"re pleased to partner with TCS, a leading IT services, solutions and outsourcing firm to enable high business performance across the globe,” said Bill Baker, GM, Office BI Application, Microsoft. “TCS" investment to expand their delivery of BI and performance management solutions based on Microsoft BI, including SQL Server 2005 and the 2007 Office system, will enable many more of our mutual customers to drive truly pervasive BI and performance management.”

TCS has created a service oriented framework “SOLAR” to strategise and deliver the BIPM solutions for the enterprise.