Tata ‘ICT InnoCluster’ on Mobility & Listening creates a buzz

There is so much more to a mobile than a phone call; it can make a difference to business and customers. The TCS Mobility team demonstrated this with an overview of smart mobile apps. The demo and hands on session that followed created keen interest in all participants of the ICT Innocluster.

The latest edition of the Tata ICT InnoCluster was organized by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in collaboration with TATA Quality Management Services (TQMS) on 5th July, 2011 at TCS, Air India Building, Mumbai. The themes of the meeting were – Mobility and Listening.

The day- long meet was divided into two sessions.

Session 1- Mobility, presented by Dr. Satya Ramaswamy, Vice President and Global Head of Mobility Solutions Unit, and his team.

Session 2- Listening Services presented by Alok Gupta, Head of Marketing and Alliances of Connected Marketing Solutions and his team. Read More...

In the Media

TCS CTO calls for a culture of “Creative Dissatisfaction”

Delivering the 29th IIT- Madras and Employers Federation of Southern India (EFSI) Endowment lecture on the theme ‘Technology and Productivity’ on Tuesday, K Ananth Krishnan, VP &CTO, TCS, pointed out that it was important for an organisation to constantly be innovative to stay ahead of the game.
He cited examples of almost extinct companies that were into the making of photographic films and fixed lines phones because of the disruptive innovations like digital cameras and mobile phones. Read more

SMU and TCS announce iCity Lan in Singapore

Tata Consultancy Services, one of India's top IT services companies, and the Singapore Management University (SMU), announced a joint iCity lab to be located at SMU's School of Information Systems (SIS) on 5 August,2011.

Announcing the collaboration, TCS Asia Pacific's chairman Girija Pande said the two organisations are partnering to create a new research facility to develop industry standards and IT frameworks for the emerging intelligent city model of urban development. TCS will initially invest S$6 million (US$4.9 million) in this lab over the next three years, which will be disbursed as scholarships and research funds at SMU.

"This industry-university partnership is a first of its kind in Asia Pacific for integrating cloud technology with the relevant business know-how to create urban management IT solutions," said Professor Steve Miller, Dean of SIS. Read More...

Research Feature

"Investing for Tomorrow through Education, Innovation and Collaboration”–K Ananth Krishnan, VP & CTO

The “Genesis of Innovation Mandate” survey conducted by Information Week studied whether the US is losing its lead as a technology innovator. The magazine held several panel discussions around this question.

With a highly eclectic mix of participants, the topic was viewed from different angles. The viewpoints the panelists brought up were relevant not just to the USA, but to all countries and systems. One of the panels included TCS CTO K. Ananth Krishnan and TCS COIN partner company founder Aneel Bhusri. Ananth also quoted “Children born in the early 1990s are just getting in to colleges now. They have a very different view of technology. For them technology is very commonplace. Students aged 10 are more familiar with technology than the previous generation was at that age. They are comfortable trying out ‘Scratch’, a solution from the Media Lab @ MIT, and perhaps programming in a familiar language/particular environment. So they are able to solve higher degree problems, without probably having gone through a formal degree of math, computer science, or algorithms that our generation went through.”