Plandek announces global partnership with TCS

Charlie Ponsonby

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Co-founder & CEO

Press Release

Plandek announces partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to help TCS customers improve their software delivery process

Plandek, the leading software delivery analytics and performance improvement platform, is delighted to announce a global partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions.

This collaboration will enable TCS to offer Plandek's intelligent analytics and performance improvement platform to their customers worldwide, improve clients' software delivery efficiency, accelerate value delivery, and improve R&D ROI.

Plandek's intelligent analytics and performance improvement platform opens up ‘the black box' of software delivery. It integrates with clients' underlying DevOps tool sets to analyse the efficiency of the end-to-end software delivery process (from design through to delivery of live software).

Plandek will be a key differentiator for TCS as Plandek's intelligent insight is used to underpin a culture of continuous improvement within software delivery teams in order to accelerate value delivery and greatly improve reporting provided to stakeholders.

"We are delighted to enter into this global partnership with Tata Consultancy Services."

said Charlie Ponsonby, Co-founder and CEO of Plandek.

"Together, Plandek and TCS will enable TCS customers to accelerate their value delivery and improve the efficiency of their software delivery teams by applying Plandek's leading-edge intelligent analytics”.

About Plandek

Plandek is an intelligent analytics and performance platform to help software delivery teams deliver valuable software faster and more predictably.

Plandek enables technology teams to track and drive their improvement and share understandable KPIs with stakeholders interested in accelerating value creation/ improving delivery efficiency.

Plandek works by mining data from delivery teams' toolsets (such as issue tracking, code repos and CI/CD tools) to provide actionable and intelligent insight across the end-to-end software delivery process.

Plandek is recognised as a top global vendor in the DevOps Value Stream Management space by Gartner and Forrester and is used by private and public organisations globally to optimise their technology delivery and accelerate R&D ROI.

For more information, please visit www.plandek.com.

About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization that has been partnering with the world's largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive-powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology, and engineering services and solutions. For more information, please visit www.tcs.com.

Written by

Charlie Ponsonby

Co-founder & CEO

Charlie started his career as an economist working on trade policy in the developing world, before moving to Accenture in London. He joined the Operating Board of Selfridges, before moving to Open Interactive TV and then Sky where he was Marketing Director until leaving to found Simplifydigital in 2007. Simplifydigital was three times in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and grew to become the UK’s largest TV, broadband and home phone comparison service, powering clients including Dixons-Carphone, uSwitch and Comparethemarket. It was acquired by Dixons Carphone plc in April 2016. He co-founded Plandek with Dan Lee in 2018. Charlie was educated at Cambridge University. He lives in London and is married with three children.