New Delhi: Software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which entered into an agreement to provide entire software requirement to Scuderia Ferrari for its Formula one cars, on Tuesday said it plans to enhance relationship with the Italian auto major.
"We plan to adopt offshoring model to provide software to Ferrari. We are enhancing our relationship with Ferrari, which requires high precision jobs," TCS Chief Executive Officer S Ramadorai said.
He said the agreement with Ferrari was a prestigious feat by any Indian company and was unique in many ways than one, since FI cars are very complex in nature, in which a nano second makes a whole lot of difference.
The two companies had in 2004 entered into an agreement to provide IT and engineering services and assist the development of F1 racing cars and Ferrari sports cars.
"We will provide whole range of software requirement of the F1 car of Ferrari. This is a prestigious feat for us, since the precision is very high," Ramadorai said.
From car electronics to safety, aerodynamics to trouble-shooting, TCS would work with the F1 team to provide IT-based solutions before, during and between races.
Ramadorai said the company has already put in place a specialist team of 40 professionals to continuously monitor the project in Italy, the headquarters of speed giant.
"Auto and aerospace form an important vertical in the company's engineering software division," he said.
He said the engineering software division contributes almost six per cent of its total revenue and almost 18 per cent of that comes from aerospace sector.
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