Wednesday, August 10 2005 13:20 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Bangalore: Metric Stream, Inc. and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today (Aug 10, 2005) announced a strategic partnership to help clients 'significantly decrease' costs associated with complying with federal regulations such as GMP, Sarbanes-Oxley 404 and such industry mandates as ISO9000.

"By combining TCS strengths in process maturity and pioneering work in building quality methodologies with Metric Stream's quality and compliance software, together the two companies will target companies facing varying industry mandates", according to a Metric Stream statement.

The partnership looks to tackle rising compliance costs by integrating Metric Stream's market leading technologies with TCS domain expertise to deliver solutions that reduce the cost of compliance, it was stated.

"This partnership is a part of strategy to take our global offerings into new markets by working closely with niche leading vendors" said Ajoy Mallik, Corporate Development, TCS, in the statement.