Sainsbury’s enlists Tata Consultancy Services for cloud first move

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is working with Sainsbury’s as the UK grocery giant looks to accelerate its cloud first strategy.

TCS has been a strategic partner to Sainsbury’s for over a decade.

As a part of a new multi-year deal, it will consolidate and modernise the retailer’s IT infrastructure landscape into a hybrid cloud stack using TCS Enterprise Cloud.

It will also provide end-to-end managed services for workplace services, network connectivity, and security.

The aim here is 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 plans to reinvest the savings to offer 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,” says Phil Jordan, Group CIO, Sainsbury’s.

“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,” says Shankar Narayanan, President, Retail Cluster, TCS.

“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.”