Today Media and Information Services companies are responding to changes by cutting costs and transforming business models in order to adapt to the digital age. By working in partnership with us, you’ll be ready to take control of your digitization and ensure your own people focus on areas of strategic value. While they’re doing that, we will be delivering back office efficiency, releasing the latent value from your existing investments, and optimizing core processes to yield long-term cost savings.

TCS' Media and Information Services, implemented by an experienced team of over 1500 consultants spread across the world, can help you get to market quickly, deliver flexibility into business, and release your human and capital resources to focus on controlling digitization and exploiting new distribution channels.

Client Challenges

Media and Information Services firms need to capitalize on the evolving product distribution channels while maintaining the current revenue streams, reducing costs and increasing flexibility. Some of the major challenges faced by the industry include:

• Erosion of revenue from the traditional outlets
• A need to leverage new distribution channels
• Shorter windows (Time-to-Market is compromised)
• Navigating Disruptive Technologies
• Delivering content, information, advertising, and services anytime, anywhere—for less
• Disparate and non-integrated IT systems landscape
• TCS understands these challenges and provides solutions that not only improve business efficiencies but also aid business transformation

What TCS Provides

TCS provides end-to-end Content Value Chain solutions and services for the Media and Information Services industry. From content creation to management to publishing to distribution TCS has the right capabilities to build, deploy and support appropriate solutions to meet the customer needs. Our solutions for the industry include:

Domain Based Offerings comprising solutions, platforms and consulting services. These include 

• Entertainment (film and music)
• Theatrical Distribution Systems, Digital Asset Management Systems, Enterprise Systems (ERP, BI), Digital Media Roadmap and Consulting
• Digital Transformation, Digital Supply Chain and Content Monetization solutions and services
• Publishing
• Content Creation, XML Content Transformation, Editorial Systems, Knowledge Management
• Circulation and Distribution Management Systems, Rights & Royatlies Managment
• Finance, Subscription Management
• Digital Content Distribution Platform that enables new business models

• Information Services
  • Content Digitization, Entity Extraction, Content Transformation, Content Fabrication
  • Centralised Content Storage (structured & Unstructured), Content Search (Full Text, Metadata, Contextual), Digital Asset Management, Knowledge Management, Analytics
  • Integrated Workflow Management,  Editorial Systems
  • Finance, Subscription Management

  For more details, visit TCS Information Services 

• Broadcasting and Cable Segment
• Syndication Systems, Broadcast Management Systems, Enterprise Content Management Systems, Rights and Contract Management Systems
• Digital Transition and New Content Monetization Models

• New Media
• Multi-Channel Distribution [B2B]
• Consumer Experience – Web 2.0 and Social Networking
• Mobile Media Consumption
• Online Advertising and Long Tail Monetization

• IT Infrastructure Services
• Data Center Management
• Network Management and
• Desktop Services

For more details, visit TCS Infrastructure Services 

• Applications Development and Maintenance, Migration and Assurance Services
• Large T&M/ Fixed-price Systems Development and Enhancement engagements
• ERP, CRM, EAI and Business Intelligence/ Data Warehousing

For more details, visit TCS IT Services

• Business Process Outsourcing (Managed  Services)
• F&A Services, A/P, A/R
• HRO
• Platform BPO
• Rights and Royalties reconciliation
• Participation and Residuals Services
• Content Digitization, Archival, Management And Monetization
• Media Process Outsourcing – Digitization, Conversion, Coding And Segmentation, And Editorial Services

For more details, visit TCS Business Process Outsourcing

Business Value

With our strong domain experience, focus on R&D Innovation and our capability to provide end-to-end service for the Media & Information Systems industry, we are best positioned to understand the imperatives of changes and hence can be a strategic long term IT partner for the industry and realize an enhanced Return on Content. Our customers typically enjoy one or more of the following

Working with TCS as your business partner gives you access to our Business Process Outsourcing and HR Outsourcing services as well as our Enterprise Solution consultancy, enabling you to derive impressive benefits, including:

• De risked ERP investments with certainty of delivery.
• Optimized digital media processes and identification of areas for investment in digital media efficiencies through next-generation software development best practices to invest once and use multiple times
• Consolidation of disparate systems that are getting in the way of efficient business practice
• Capability to implement change quickly and seamlessly resulting in efficient processes and flexible IT capabilities

Client Thoughts

“There’s a lot of certainty involved that the work that they will do will have a lot of high quality, will be delivered on time, and in the end, my users will be very satisfied.”
-Sony Pictures Entertainment, Rick Hopfer, Senior Vice President and CIO