Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, has entered into a strategic business partnership with The Training Room, a leading UK provider of technical training courses and careers support.

The Training Room will leverage the TCS iON Digital Learning Hub to provide a platform for UK and international students seeking skills and technical courses and for employers looking for dynamic solutions for recruitment, in-house training, and staff retention.

TCS iON provides the backbone for delivering skills in a 'Phygital model', where trainers and physical classrooms are combined with digital technology to give students access to quality, educational content anywhere, any time, and on any device. The Training Room will roll out an enhanced version of its own courses on the new platform, starting with health and fitness and personal training courses, followed by IT courses. The platform will also host content from many other educational and professional institutions covering a vast range of work-related learning opportunities.

For students at all stages of their career, the platform will be a gateway to courses, aptitude tests, discussion groups, mentors, gurus, job boards, careers advice, recruitment assessments, in-company training, CPD, social networks and links to real-life encounters and events.

For corporate employers, The Training Room's new platform will be a place to host training and learning resources under their own brand, overcoming the capacity limitations of other third-party learning management systems.

The platform, which uses content delivery network technology, is an integrated solution for end to end management of a learner's journey. From enrolment to course subscriptions to self-assessments to social collaboration and live interaction: all can be provided in one ecosystem.

Shares of the company declined Rs 9.05, or 0.44%, to trade at Rs 2,067.85. The total volume of shares traded was 4,434 at the BSE (9.37 a.m., Friday).