new delhi countrys top software exporter tcs on thursday said it has bagged a 12 billion deal from the netherlandsbased media firm nielsen company for managing its it and operations function globally making it the biggest ever deal in the indian it space under the deal which would be spread over a period of 10 years tcs would manage certain finance and human resource business processes companys ceo and managing director s ramadorai saidthe contract would give advantage to tcs in terms of currency value and reduce its dependence on the us market as dollar has been on the decline visavis indian rupeethe revenues from the deal will start coming from the first year of its operation and the contract pricing takes into account inflationary measures companys coo n chandrasekaran saidwhile declining to specify the exact number of tcs employees who would be working on this contract he said thousands of employees we will ramp up our headcount significantly in the next threesix monthstcss centres in india north america and eastern europe would be involved in providing solutions to nielsen it would also set an innovation lab for building nextgeneration business solutions for nielsens endclients globallyabout 350 employees of nielsen at baroda would be integrated in tcs to help it accelerate development of its kpo service delivery platform nielsen global business services executive vicepresident mitchell habib said in a statement this arrangement with tcs will help us streamline and simplify our it infrastructure and application platforms and operational practices across our businesses support the development of integrated solutions and give us much greater flexibility to respond quickly to changes in the marketplacenielsen provides a wide range of global services such as television and internet audience measurement online and mobile media services entertainment books video and is a major provider of business publications and trade shows