Innovation

The TCS Innovations Advantage

A pioneer in software R&D, TCS today has an innovation ecosystem that offers you research-based solutions in leading-edge technologies to meet your expectations from IT and to support your Business objectives

Innovation Strategy: Research Segmentation, Customers Expectations & Alignment (Research Themes).

Innovation Ecosystem: TCS Innovation Labs, TCS Co-Innovation Network (COIN)™, Incubation Group.

Innovation Events: “Innovation Days” help key customers and TCS researchers to collaborate on research towards specific solutions. “Innovations Forums” held annually in UK and the USA serve as confluences of thought leaders, researchers from academia, start-ups and customers, bringing value through shared experiences and offering a preview of technologies and solutions of the coming decade.

Innovation Culture: Awards for young innovators, coding competitions, research workshops and conferences where scientists of international participate create a fertile environment for TCSers, enabling them to think creatively around customer solutions.

Intellectual Property: TCS has created a strong IPR base and has stepped up investments in building assets such as patents, copyrights and trademarks.

 

Research Segmentation:

Aligned to your varied requirements TCS has a portfolio approach to innovation. It segments research into three categories:

Sustaining or Derivative Innovation: Innovations that offer improvements on current offerings in current markets

Platform Innovations: Innovations that help customers move to adjacent technologies and create additional capabilities

Disruptive Innovations: Innovations that are game changers and bring radical changes to current markets and capabilities.

TCS invests in research in adjacent and futuristic technologies and has a metrics driven approach to innovation. Using an Open and Collaborative framework it connects customers to the best of breed entities in the technology landscape and enables you to gain competitive advantage.

Outcome based Research Themes:

TCS Innovations focus on typical jobs/outcomes customers expect.

Samples of TCS R&D offerings that address your expectations from IT:

  • To Increase Operational Efficiency and Productivity: software tools, performance tools etc.
  • To Promote Business Agility: SaaS platforms, Agile enterprise architecture, Decision Support Systems etc
  • To Simplify and Transform: Virtualization, Cloud computing, Managed Evolution of Infrastructure etc
  • To Manage Enterprise Risk and Compliance: Smart Cards, Copyright protection offerings etc
  • To Enable Understanding of Markets and Customers: Knowledge Discovery and  Advertising platform Solutions

 

To support your business objectives social concerns we

  • Enrich User Experience with Surface Computing, Unified Communications and Multimedia Gateway solutions
  • Optimize Enterprise Knowledge with Content Management Systems Offerings
  • Foster Information Ubiquity with Knowledge  Portals and Mobile Based Advisory systems
  • Enhance Healthcare with Life Sciences, Embedded Systems and NLP offerings
  • Conserve the Environment with Green IT solutions and consulting.

 

CONTACT INFO

To learn more about how we can help you innovate and stay ahead, contact us at innovation.info@tcs.com

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