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Tata Consultancy Services, the largest indian provider of information technology and BPO services, has bagged a five-year IT outsourcing deal with Volkswagen Group UK which for the first time will use a mixture of onshore and offshore services for managing its software infrastructure.

“Due to the economic downturn, facilities of auto companies in the UK are not running at full capacity. Hence they are keen to reduce variable operational costs as much as possible. Partnering with companies such as TCS helps them in doing that in addition to improving work efficiency,” he said. TCS will help in virtualisation of VW`s servers and consolidate them on a single platform, added Mr Lakshminarayanan. However, neither company disclosed the overall deal size or the number of people to be deployed for the engagement.

TCS’s services will cut across the VW group’s operations including brands such as Audi, SEAT, Škoda, Volkswagen Passenger Cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Volkswagen Group UK Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of German carmaker, Volkswagen AG, which produces one in every six new cars sold in the UK, according to a press release from TCS.