TCS' flagship research centre, TCS Innovation Labs - TRDDC was established in 1981, when IT had barely emerged as an industry. Today, TCS has a global network of laboratories that provide an environment for sophisticated IT research in leading-edge technologies as well as in various domains. Our labs are connected to academic research centers of international repute for various collaborative research projects. Internships, learning programs and workshops with academia also contribute to the vibrant interaction. In recent years, the number of individuals with PhDs joining our labs has shot up.
Our labs are customer aligned and metrics driven. Our scientists and researchers continually publish/edit/present research papers and publications.
Technology LabS
Domain Labs
Technology LabS
TCS Innovation Labs - TRDDC - Software Engineering Lab
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- Software Tools: Tools for software lifecycle, Test Management and Maintenance that can automate and improve quality of applications.
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Adaptive and agile enterprise systems
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Zero defect software: The lab has made significant contributions to reengineering assignments, large mission critical project development, product development for the verticals, embedded software development, checking programming standards, and requirements specification. This has been possible due to the philosophy of developing our meta-tools for modeling, program analysis and transformation, and building on the available tools for constraint solving, model checking, and so on.
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TCS Innovation Labs - TRDDC - Process Engineering Lab
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Metals/Materials Innovation: i2Steel, i2Stamp, Solidification Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), Multi-Vehicle Optimization (MVO), Polymer Melt Processing, Rational design of Industrial Performance Chemicals, Iron Ore Beneficiation, Flocculation/Dispersion in Colloidal Suspensions, Solid-Liquid Separation.
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Green Technologies: Green Data Centers, Multi-fuel Combustion, etc.
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Nano-Bio Technology Initiatives: Synthesis of Nanoparticles, Nanogels, Nanoparticle processing, Drug Delivery Systems.
This lab uses process modeling and computational fluid dynamics, thermal processing and virtual manufacturing that can bring large efficiency, savings and compliance to industry units.
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TCS Innovation Labs - TRDDC - Systems Research Lab (SRL)
Research Areas: The lab addresses some of the most challenging issues in designing and optimizing large-scale systems:
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Large-scale IT systems such as data centers of large enterprises
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People systems such as the workforce of a service provider
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Complex engineering systems such as a thermonuclear reactor or a multi-antenna telescope
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Research activities at SRL are inter-disciplinary in nature involving the broad areas of algorithms and optimizations, machine learning, networks, distributed systems and operating systems. The lab collaborates actively with many academic institutions, including Stanford, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, UT Austin, Indian Institute of Technology at Mumbai, among others. We also interact and interface with many start-ups as well as strategic alliance partners in several technology areas.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Hyderabad
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Life sciences: Computational methods in life sciences, meta-genomics and systems biology
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e-Security: Advanced encryption methods, digital watermarking, biometric authentication and traitor tracing
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Open source technologies: Content Management Systems and Indian Language Tools
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Quantitative Finance: Pricing and hedging of complex derivatives and modeling of credit defaults
Bio-Suite™, from this lab, has won the Nasscom Innovation Award 2005 and FAPCCI Award for Best New Product Innovation in 2004. The e-Security group’s solutions have positioned TCS as a licensed Certifying Authority and leader in the IT space that provides end-to-end security solutions.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Delhi
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Multimedia and Vision: Video Surveillance, Virtual Worlds and 3D Internet, Shopping by Example and Multimedia Explorer.
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Natural Language Interfaces and HCI: Natural Language Interface to Business Applications, Semantic web technologies.
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Enterprise Architecture: Service-Oriented Architecture, Software as a Service, Model-Driven Architecture
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Virtual Reality: Virtual Worlds and 3D Internet
The lab’s InstantApps Technology enables the development of situational applications entirely within a browser by business analysts instead of developers, indicating a new paradigm in enterprise architecture.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Mumbai
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mKrishi, the TCS Mobile Agro Advisory System is a confluence of various patented technologies developed by the lab and an ecosystem of various organizations for the economic empowerment of Indian farmers. It has won several prestigious awards such as The Wall Street Journal Award 2008, Golden Peacock Innovation Award 2008, Nasscom Top 50 Innovations during the Year 2008, etc.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Chennai
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Infrastructure Services: All aspects of IT infrastructure such as configuration, monitoring, management and transformation.
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Green IT solutions and consulting
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Grid and Utility Computing: Harnessing distributed computing resources for resource-demanding applications and utility computing to dynamically provisioned shared resources for different applications.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Web 2.0
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Next Gen Web Technologies: Social software, semantic web, and Rich Internet Application (RIA) platforms.
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Usability: Consulting in Enterprise 2.0, usability and Social Interaction Design. Creation of web-oriented architectures and Mashup platforms and tools and assets for facilitating these.
The Web 2.0 Lab brings the consumer internet user experience into the enterprise to bridge the growing gap between the open, democratic, flat systems and the top-down, hierarchical way of working that pervades most companies.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Kolkata
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Multimedia: TCS Home Infotainment Platform, Industrial Automation using Machine Vision, Networked Video Surveillance.
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Wireless Technologies: Security in wireless networks, cross-layer optimization for quality of service, radio layer enhancement.
The lab focuses on the convergence of applications/contents like voice, video and data over the new-age information superhighway and also uses the sensor network to connect the distributed world of information. Solutions from this lab address telecom, media and information services, and manufacturing domains. The lab also has research alliances with leading universities in India and abroad.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Bangalore
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Embedded and Wireless Technologies: Distributed multimodal sensing, communications monitoring and control.
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Research in error-control-coding, ubiquitous sensor networks, biomedical and multimedia signal processing, applied electromagnetics, and emerging technologies and algorithms for next-generation radio communication technologies.
The applications of these research activities include health monitoring of persons, structure and equipment monitoring, safety and security of assets and premises, automatic data gathering for managing environment, infrastructures and natural resources, and monitoring for regulations and policy evaluation for network industries. Solutions from this lab cater to the telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, infrastructure, government and insurance verticals.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Performance Engineering
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Performance Engineering in all phases of the software delivery cycle and high performance technologies for large systems
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Performance Monitoring and Analysis: Java profiling and Transaction profiling
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Virtual Production Environment: WAN Emulation and Production Database Emulation
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Capacity Planning: Hardware sizing tools to provide estimates of capacity for J2EE and database applications in the RFP/planning stage.
The lab also performs Reliability Analysis and Automated Provisioning. Many of the tools created in this lab have been released to Open Source at http://wanem.sourceforge.net. The java profiling solution (Jensor) and the WAN emulator solution (WANem) have also won Open Source awards.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Peterborough
This lab acts as a collaboration hub between the 18 TCS Innovation Labs across the world and the customer, in conjunction with the TCS account teams. The engagement model is focused on agile methods and the use of rapid systems development to offer a safe environment for trial of new solutions.
By collaborating with this lab in Peterborough, one can utilize the expertise of the TCS Co-Innovation Network (TCS COIN).
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TCS Innovation Labs - Cincinnati
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Product Design and Sustainability: Challenges in extracting semantic understanding in design data/information and making tacit knowledge useful for others involved in the design process (Working Knowledge Models (WKM)), visualization, interaction and collaboration (social networking) frameworks in early stages of product design, and methods/tools for product re-design and sustainability.
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Analytics and Process-Based Modeling: Application of process-based modeling concepts to product and process improvement. The work would focus on the development of tools and techniques for applying formal modeling, simulation and optimization techniques for product design and improvement in industry verticals such as medical devices, automotive, life sciences, etc.
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Multi-product Optimization: Development of processes and methods for optimization driven product rationalization for the manufacturing domain. The initiative focuses on solving challenging problems in the product rationalization stage leading to cost advantages in downstream manufacturing and service functions.
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Domain labs
TCS Innovation Labs - Insurance
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Improving Operational Efficiency of various key stakeholders including insurers, policy holders, agents and service providers through the use of emerging technologies.
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Managing Customer Lifestyle through proactive advice and support in the area of health, travel and automobiles.
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Improving Customer Experience and Relationship through customer self-service systems, business process management, customer profiling and customer-driven product design.
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Insurance Product Innovation in the creation of new products to meet the changing market needs as well as in the process of designing and launching new products.
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Enabling micro insurance especially in emerging markets like India and China by offering convenience at an affordable cost using technology.
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Straight Through Processing (STP) and Process Improvements in the insurance business process
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Improving Member Experience with Web 2.0
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Business Intelligence and Analytics in insurance
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Next Generation Architecture for IT Systems for Insurance: Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing (CC) solutions for insurance
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Model Driven Development (MDD) and Testing for developing large IT systems for Insurance
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Reference Architecture for insurance systems
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TCS Innovation Labs - Engineering and Industrial Solutions (EIS)
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Design optimization
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Process/plant optimization
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Modeling, simulation and control of plants, equipments and processes
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Data Analysis and Data Mining
The lab has created tools for two-stage tolerance optimization, capital maintenance planning, fixed-structure parametric identification, data mining and the development of Virtual Sensors using operational data. It has also created a framework for Supply Chain Planning under Uncertainty, a methodology for the identification of linear and nonlinear dynamic systems, algorithms for adaptive networks based on adaptive resonance theory for classification and identification and for fault diagnosis in linear and nonlinear systems using a model-based approach, and an object-oriented module for online multivariable control and optimization of linear systems.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Telecom
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Digital Surveillance based on Intelligent Video Analytics
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IPTV: Video Analytics, STB, Media Streaming and IP Cameras
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Mobile-based solutions for shopping, advertising, mobility, etc.
The lab acts as a hub for the incubation of new ideas relating to IP-based technologies primarily in the content delivery of video and other rich media and the Digital Surveillance System domain.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Travel and Hospitality
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Integrated Merchandising Framework
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Process-Driven Tactile Interfaces
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Seamless Flight Disruption Notification Framework
The lab focuses on the themes of “Enhancing Customer Experience,” “Enabling Airline Enterprise” and “Measuring and Optimizing the Enterprise” in the travel industry, especially in the airline segment. It has also evolved a Travel Services Platform and a Web Kiosk, a Web browser based light-weight check-in application.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Retail
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Customer Shopping Experience: Digital Personal Shopping Assistant, Loyalty Framework , Digital Signage, Smart Checkout Systems, People Counter and IR Beacons
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Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) Tags
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Store Operations in Galleria: Space Optimization and Workforce Management System
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Enterprise Project Management System, Personal Digital Assistant, Master Data Management, solutions such as KSS PriceStrat and Retek Management System
The lab has also worked on an Assortment Dashboard: a collaborative tool that facilitates quick decision making by providing users (assortment planners and category managers) with a single snapshot of all the information required for assortment of inventory.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Banking and Financial Services
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- Trading algorithms: Algorithmic solutions for high frequency and algo trading
- Discrete hedging solutions: Discrete hedging solutions for derivatives portfolios of multi-asset classes
- Trader behavior and pattern detection: Research on trading pattern behavior of traders, deriving operational risk index on the basis of that pattern and trading strategy detection
- Low latency: Lowering turnaround time from milli seconds to micro seconds for trading systems
- Complex event processing and message driven architecture: Reducing the peak interval to generate more arbitrage opportunities
The Capital Markets group of TCS Innovation Labs - Banking and Financial Services tracks trends in capital markets and identifies opportunities as well as challenges for the market participants.
It offers innovative solutions by leveraging high-end technologies, innovative approaches and processes to help clients meet challenges in Trading Systems, Investment Management, Exchanges and Depositories. It also leverages TCS' strong domain technology expertise and provides platform solutions in partnership with customers.
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