TCS Innovation Labs provide environments in which new domain solutions can be developed, incubated, and piloted using the latest technologies in a cost-effective environment before enterprise-wide deployment. They give TCS customers “on-demand” access to innovation and creativity with a team comprising of domain experts, business process analysts, technology specialists, and R&D teams.
TCS Innovation Labs are led by some of the most established names in the academia and research communities, and attract the best talent in the industry and are equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructural support. This ensures constant evolution of new standards of technology, business, and domain innovations.
Research at our labs is focused on the "jobs" our clients are trying to do, their pain points, current and future needs. Our projects address our clients’ chief expectations from IT, enabling them to:
- Increase Operational Efficiency and Productivity
- Promote Business Agility
- Simplify and Transform
- Manage Enterprise Risk and Compliance
- Enable Understanding of Markets and Customers
We also believe in addressing, through our research, our clients’ business, organizational and social goals:
- Enrich User Experience
- Optimize Enterprise Knowledge
- Foster Information Ubiquity
- Enhance Healthcare
- Conserve the Environment
TCS’ globally spread network of labs and their focus areas:
TCS Innovation Lab: TRDDC was established in 1981 and is now one of Asia’s premier R&D centres in software and process engineering. It focuses on creation of intellectual assets - new technologies, models, tools and products. TRDDC houses three distinct labs, each specializing in key areas of research. The systems research lab focuses on next generation infrastructure solutions, applied algorithms, data privacy, and data & text mining. The software engineering lab provides solutions in formal methods, model-driven architecture, program analysis, requirements modelling and more. The process engineering lab focuses on minerals and materials, process modelling and computational fluid dynamics, thermal processing, and virtual manufacturing.
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TCS Innovation Lab: Hyderabad, focuses on computational methods in life sciences, meta-genomics, systems biology, e-security, open source technologies, smart card-based applications, digital media protection, nano-biotechnology, and quantitative finance. This lab works on technologies that include computational algorithms for biology, natural language processing, advanced encryption methods, digital watermarking, biometric authentication, Indian languages and distributed content management systems. The lab has developed SmartBANK and ePassport solutions, Dhruvam™, FormSigner™, FileSigner™, Secure implementation of ECDSA, Bio-Suite™, Bio-Appliance, structure-based drug discovery. Bio-Suite™ has won the Nasscom Innovation Award 2005 and FAPCCI Award for Best New Product Innovation in 2004.
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TCS Innovation Lab: Delhi, focuses on technologies that could drive disruptive changes in the global technology industry and develop re-usable solution frameworks. The current focus of this Lab is emerging technologies such as Software Architectures, Software as a Service, Natural Language Processing, Text, Data and Process Analytics, Multimedia Applications and Graphics. The Lab has developed the TCS Instant Apps Technology, which enables development of situational applications entirely within a browser and by business analysts instead of by developers, and TCS Natural Language Interface Technology, which enables conversational interaction with business applications over email, chat, and SMS.
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TCS Innovation Lab: Mumbai, works in a number of areas such as speech and natural language, wireless technology (CDMA and protocol stack), and application development in BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless, developed by Qualcomm) using its own patented technology PIM2R. The lab actively interacts with customers and internal groups within TCS for commercialization of its innovative solutions and has a number of successful working implementations. A case in the point is mKRISHI, the TCS Mobile Agro Advisory System, which is a confluence of various patented technologies developed by the lab and an eco-system of various organizations for the economic empowerment of Indian farmers.
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TCS Innovation Lab: Peterborough, England, focuses on New Wave Communications for Enterprise (SIP based IMS platform technology, browser based Web 2.0 portal technology), Enterprise Search (Caché database technology), Enterprise 2.0 (Browser based Web 2.0 technologies), Utility Computing (Solution based on Cassatt technology), RFID (chips, tags, labels, readers and middleware) etc. This Lab has developed SIP-based communication solution (in collaboration with InnovaLab, Chennai, India), Web 2.0 and SOA based solutions (in collaboration with iLabs, New Delhi, India), enterprise search solutions, utility computing solutions, and RFID based hosted solutions (in collaboration with RFID Lab, Kolkata, India).
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TCS Innovation Lab: Chennai (Web 2.0 and Infrastructure Services): 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. It energizes knowledge sharing, interactivity and collaboration at work by using next generation web technologies, such as social software, semantic web, and Rich Internet Application (RIA) platforms. While evangelizing usability, open source and social software within TCS, it has built collaboration platforms for the company that have been eagerly adopted by employees. This lab provides consulting services in Enterprise2.0, Usability and Social Interaction Design. It also creates Web Oriented Architectures and Mashup platforms and provides tools and assets for facilitating these. The lab has created community platforms/social networking for clients in different geographies and in diverse domains such as large publishing houses, automakers and media outfits.
The Infrastructure Services lab in Chennai conducts research on all aspects of IT Infrastructure such as configuration, monitoring, management, and transformation. It provides innovative Green IT solutions. This lab also explores grid computing to harness distributed computing resources for resource-demanding applications and utility computing to dynamically provision shared resources for different applications.
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TCS Innovation Labs – Kolkata, focuses on addressing the convergence of applications or content such as voice, video and data over the new-age information super high-way and also use the sensor/RFID network to connect the physical world with the world of information. The lab works in collaboration with academia to develop technologies for the future. Research in new techniques for emerging areas in medical electronics is being pursued with IIT Mumbai. Collaborative program with Aalborg University, Denmark, addresses the advanced next generation wireless communications. The lab has also works with the Indian Statistical Institute in the area of advanced video processing.
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TCS Innovation Labs - Bangalore, focuses on multi modal sensing, communications signal processing, multimedia and embedded intelligence. Technologies of focus include medical electronics, Sensor networks, Audio content analysis and 4G wireless. This lab has developed the Silicon Locket, an ECG-monitoring system for remote cardiac diagnostics and tele-consultation that makes healthcare patient-centric. The Embedded Systems lab has also developed error correction decoder architectures for WiMAX (IEEE 802.16). This lab also has participated in the EU Consortium research projects MAGNET and E2R in the area of next generation wireless communications.
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TCS Innovation Lab: Performance Engineering, focuses on a tools based approach to embed performance as part of the software delivery life cycle as well as high performance technologies for large systems. This lab has built performance profilers, emulators, test automation frameworks, hardware sizing tools, high performance messaging solutions and stock matching prototypes. The profilers ScrutiNet and Jensor non-intrusively provide a characterization of transaction performance end-to-end as well as within a JVM.
Jensor has been released to open source at http://jensor.sourceforge.net. The emulators WANem and DBProdem reproduce the performance characteristics of a production WAN and Database in to a development or test environment. WANem has been released to open source at http://wanem.sourceforge.net. Test automation frameworks automate the entire performance testing cycle right from script loading to report generation.
The hardware sizing tools provide estimates of capacity for J2EE and database applications during responses to RFPs, where limited knowledge is available of architecture and design. The high performance messaging and stock matching prototype have been built for the needs of brokerage and stock exchange systems that need to process a million transactions per second.
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TCS Innovation Lab: Business Systemsis a research laboratory that studies complex business systems with a focus on the needs of the consulting and IT services aspects of TCS’ business. The lab aims to reduce the latency between business change and its support through IT, to increase the alignment between business operations and IT support, and business strategy and IT strategy, and to foster reuse through a clean segmentation of business that will provide a compositional ontology for it. Three strands of research are pursued here:
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The internal structure of operational businesses, so that business quality can be reasoned with, and the consulting process that builds solutions, so that their business quality can be asserted.
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A multi-layered understanding of software architecture of information systems that support and further the qualities of business, and architecture for a software process that builds these qualities of information system deliverables by design.
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Software tools and software components for effective segmentation and support for operational processes in business.
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TCS Innovation Lab: Insurance, creates innovative frameworks that facilitate greater customer and agent participation in product design, faster and more accurate claims processing and easy/multi-modal access to financial information and advice.
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TCS Innovation Lab: Engineering and Industrial Services (EIS), focuses on the applications involving advanced control, system identification, and fault diagnosis. Apart from these focus areas, the lab also works in a number of supporting research areas such as data mining and knowledge extraction, system identification and sensing, system modelling, analytics, simulation, decision support systems, and learning/intelligent systems.
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TCS Innovation Lab: Telecom, Media and Entertainment, has a distributed team with groups in Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata (India) and Burbank (USA). The group in Mumbai acts as a hub for incubation of new ideas for the IPTV domain. The Burbank team works with partners and technology specialists in the areas of Digital Media Distribution and Digital Asset Management. WIMAX and IPTV research is in progress at Mumbai and Kolkata. A range of telecom products are built at Chennai.
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TCS Innovation Lab: Travel and Hospitality, enables a collaborative platform for incubating T&H domain specific solutions, across business processes, cost effectively. Offerings include an On-Demand Analytics platform with strong predictive capabilities that helps identify valuable customers using data on client history, travel behaviour, passenger miles and revenues; Real-Time Loyalty solution which enables loyalty points to be earned and redeemed in real-time by customers across all touch points and Travel Concierge, which provides a personalized and secure information channel between customers and the airlines for relevant, real-time communication.
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TCS Innovation Lab: Retail, has produced a gamut of retail innovations such as infrastructure for prototyping, architecture solutions, system integration services, reusable in-store excellence solution components and loyalty frameworks. The lab has alliances with leading academicians and industry experts in the fields of In-Store Operations and efficiency, RFID, Operations Research and Business Intelligence. Many of the solutions can be seen at work in the TCS SmartStore in Chennai, India, a TCS merchandise outlet.
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TCS Innovation Lab: CMC, develops special hardware and software products which form the building blocks of the turnkey solutions offered by TCS/CMC. Some of the lab's offerings have found acceptance as standalone products. Research at TCS Innovation Labs - CMC includes embedded systems; e-security and e-payments; biometric solutions; POS and ticketing solutions (transportation domain); smart card solutions; networking products and network security; SCADA and process control; and PDA-based solutions.
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