Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and FST Media hosted an exclusive roundtable luncheon. Guests included a select group of CIOs, CTOs, Executive General Managers and Divisional Heads who gathered to discuss emerging trends on enhancing customer engagement, driving operational efficiency and improving revenue growth. Following is an extract of the discussion.

This special report on core banking transformation is co-published by TCS and The Asian Banker. Based on the adoption of modern core-banking systems in populous Asian countries including China, Indonesia and India, it’s evident that the scale of banking operations has undergone an order-of-magnitude shift. The fundamental scale shift affects the economics of banking across the entire global financial services industry. Read more about how GDRCC and Hua Xia Bank managed their transformation using TCS BaNCS Core Banking.

P&G is a leader in adopting PackML concepts to reduce integration and support costs. P&G and other major end-users of packaging equipment now demand the use of ISA-TR88.00.02 PackML Standard on their key OEM equipment. On this particular project, P&G worked with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to convert the unscrambler’s existing software to the concepts provided by the PackML and ISA standards.  TCS implemented a modular, structured, standard code on this machine and met the project objectives. TCS applied PackML using the PackML Implementation Guide and template endorsed by the OMAC organization.

The Indian financial services industry is poised for change, spurred by the changes in regulation, technology, constantly changing customer demands, capital pressures and new competitors. This article discusses the new role of branches, delivering an enriched experience to the customer and human capital management challenges in India.

This special report on innovation in emerging markets by Adrian Wooldridge from The Economist, talks about developing countries being the hotbeds of business innovation. These developing countries are coming up with new products and services that are dramatically cheaper than their western equivalents. They are reinventing systems of production and distribution, and they are experimenting with entirely new business models. All the elements of modern business, from supply-chain management to recruitment and retention, are being rejigged or reinvented in one emerging market or another. Read more in this special report.

Kamal Bhadada, VP and Head of Media and Information Services for Tata Consultancy Services quotes on TCS patnership with Nature Education on Scitable.

IT industry analysts have been voicing concern about the snail’s pace at which the sector has been growing lately. However, none of the noise seems to have breached the heritage structure that houses Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest software company. Inside the tastefully done up glass and wood modern office, it is business as usual. In a spacious cabin overlooking the historic Azad Maidan, a smile is always playing on the lips of company CEO & MD N Chandrasekaran, 46, who downplays the so-called threats faced by the IT industry as he aims to “achieve something audacious’’.

K Ananth Krishnan, VP and CTO, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. gives his predictions for 2010 to the ChannelWeb.

Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) mobile-based advisory platform mKrishi has started pilot projects in Maharshtra. The information system for farmers will help them access localised information and advice on agricultural issues through graphic and voice formats in local languages.

In line with its ideal of innovating to address the ‘base of the pyramid’ market needs, the Tata Group launched 'Swach', the 'world's most cost effective water purifier' on December 7, 2009 in Mumbai, India. The purifier was launched by Ratan N Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons. Also present on the occasion was TCS Vice Chairman, S Ramadorai.