TCS to Support Joburg's New S/w Engineering Centre

An agreement was signed on 24 November 2005 between Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global software services and consulting company and the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University. The agreement will bring specialist software engineering lecturers from India to the JCSE over the next two years. Prof Barry Dwolatzky, Academic Director of the JCSE, says "Bringing these lecturers to South Africa will make a significant contribution towards the development of high-level skills in the local software development sector."

The JCSE was launched in May this year as a partnership between Wits University, the City of Johannesburg and over 20 companies, including TCS, IBM, Microsoft, Unisys and FNB. Prof. Dwolatzky says, "TCS has a great deal of experience and expertise in training world class software engineers. The company's corporate training academy, in Thiruvananthapuram in the South of India, trains thousands of TCS recruits from across the globe. Today TCS boasts of a 54,000 strong team of software consultants and it is this centre that makes this training possible. The lecturers that will be brought to South Africa will come from this academy. It is really exciting that TCS has agreed to share this expertise with us. They will support the JCSE's educational programmes aimed at promoting best practice in software engineering and creating a pool of talent that would service the needs of our country".

Mr N. Chandrasekaran, Executive Vice President of TCS says "TCS is proud of its association with the University of the Witwatersrand and with the City of Johannesburg through the JCSE initiative. I am sure that the JCSE, in association with the industries in the ICT sector, would be able to realise its vision to create a local talent pool that would enable South Africa's capacity to deliver world class software".

TCS was among the first Indian software companies to enter South Africa, in 1995. The company implemented the STRATE system at the Johannesburg Securities Exchange, has worked on numerous projects in the banking and government sectors including Barclays, FNB, SABC and is implementing an ERP system at Wits.

The agreement will be signed for TCS by Mr N. Chandrasekaran, Executive Vice President and Head, Global Operations, who is visiting South Africa, and the Vice Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand, Prof Loyiso Nongxa, for the JCSE. This contribution from TCS is worth over R2 million, making it a "Gold Sponsor" of the JCSE.

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