Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has entered into a long-term agreement with Nokia as its global IT partner.

The exercise is aimed at consolidating Nokia?s global internal applications suite with a single provider. The company?s core applications for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, product lifecycle management, supply chain management, enterprise information management and corporate functions will be supported and developed by TCS.

TCS will also collaborate with Nokia in developing a future IT roadmap, driving consolidation, rationalisation and simplification of applications and also enabling business transformation across the core portfolios.