Innovation

The TCS Innovations Advantage

A pioneer in software R&D, TCS, today, has an innovative environment that offers you research-based solutions in leading-edge technologies that will help you meet your IT expectations and support business objectives.

Innovation Strategy: Research Segmentation, Customers Expectations and 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 toward specific solutions. “Innovations Forums” held annually in the UK and USA serve as confluences of thought leaders and 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 repute participate and 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 with your varied requirements, we have a portfolio approach to innovation, wherein the research is segmented into the following 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.

We invest in research in adjacent and futuristic technologies and apply a metrics-driven approach to innovation. Using an open and collaborative framework, we connect customers to the best of breed entities in the technology landscape and enable you to gain a competitive advantage.

Outcome-based Research Themes

TCS Innovations focus on the typical jobs/outcomes that customers expect.

Samples of our R&D offerings that address your IT expectations include the following:

  • 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 and 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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