Mumbai, NFAPost: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud and the launch of its new offering called TCS Generative AI. This offering leverages Google Cloud’s generative AI services to create custom-tailored business solutions that help clients accelerate their growth and transformation by harnessing the power of generative AI.
TCS, known for its deep domain knowledge across various industry verticals and its investments in research and innovation, has developed a wide range of AI-powered solutions and intellectual property in areas such as AIOps, Algo Retail™, smart manufacturing, digital twins, and robotics. The company is currently collaborating with clients from multiple industries to explore how generative AI can bring value to their specific business contexts.
TCS Generative AI is powered by Google Cloud’s Generative AI tools, including Vertex AI, Generative AI Application Builder, and Model Garden, as well as TCS’s own solutions. TCS will combine its client-specific contextual knowledge, design thinking, and agile development processes to collaborate with clients, rapidly prototype ideas, and build comprehensive transformation solutions with enhanced time-to-value.
To facilitate these collaborative efforts, TCS will utilize its co-innovation hubs called TCS Pace Ports™, located in New York, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. These hubs serve as spaces where clients can engage with academic researchers and startup partners from TCS’s extended innovation ecosystem.
TCS has been actively investing in scaling its expertise in rapidly evolving cloud technologies, with over 25,000 engineers certified on Google Cloud and over 50,000 associates trained in AI. The company plans to earn 40,000 skill badges on Google Cloud Generative AI within the year to meet the expected demand for its new offering.
Krishnan Ramanujam, President of the Enterprise Growth Group at TCS, stated that TCS is well-positioned to build innovative enterprise-level solutions using generative AI due to its deep contextual knowledge of customers’ businesses. He emphasized that the launch partnership with Google Cloud enables TCS to rapidly create value for its customers, and the company is committed to harnessing the power of generative AI to drive growth and transformation.
Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Ecosystems and Channels at Google Cloud, highlighted TCS’s expertise in business transformation and its commitment to training thousands of people on Google Cloud Generative AI. He expressed that TCS and Google Cloud will together address industry-specific challenges and opportunities with generative AI capabilities and solutions, focusing on real-world use cases that add business value.
Through the TCS Google Business Unit, customers can access a full catalogue of services and solutions that combine TCS’s contextual knowledge, industry-focused innovation, and Google Cloud’s platform capabilities. These offerings include advisory services, foundational cloud-build and security services, applications and data modernization, AI builds and deployment services, managed services for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and fit-to-purpose digital solutions across industries.
TCS is dedicated to providing cloud-native services and solutions across new technologies, such as generative AI, intelligent edge-to-core, and blockchain, to enhance end-customer value. The company has achieved 25 specializations and has received several Google Cloud awards, including the 2021 Industry Solution Partner of the Year for Retail, the 2021 Global Diversity & Inclusion Partner of the Year, and the 2020 Breakthrough Partner of the Year.
To learn more about the TCS Google Business Unit, visit their website at: https://www.tcs.com/what-we-do/services/cloud/google
