2021
TCS Wins Award for AI Software that Helps Firms Protect Returning Workers During COVID-19
TCS Wins 2021 CIO 100 Award for Workplace Resilience Solution Developed During Pandemic
TCS Wins IoT Breakthrough Award for its Intelligent Urban Exchange Software January 12, 2021
Tata Consultancy Services Recognized with IoT Breakthrough Award for its Intelligent Urban Exchange Software for Workplace Resilience.
The IoT Breakthrough Awards showcase the innovators, leaders and visionaries that exemplify the best in IoT technology solutions across the globe. Nominations were evaluated by an independent panel of experts within the IoT industry, with the winning products and companies selected based on a variety of criteria, including most innovative and technologically advanced products and services.
IUX for Workplace Resilience helps enterprises make it safer for employees to return to work amid COVID-19 by combining risk analytics with key business relaunch functions such as workforce safety, regulation compliance, operational resilience, and customer engagement. It is part of TCS’ Secure Borderless Workspaces™ model, which enabled its workforce of over 453,000 across 46 countries to work remotely in just a few weeks.
“TCS’ Digital Software and Solutions software arm is now delivering these well-tested capabilities via its data analytics platform,” said Rich Karpinski, Senior Research Analyst, Voice of the Enterprise: Internet of Things, 451 Research
TCS’ Digital Software & Solutions (DS&S) group has pivoted the major focus of its TCS Intelligent Urban Exchange (IUX) smart cities platform to help companies and cities manage employees returning to work after COVID-19 quarantines,” said Rich Karpinski, Senior Research Analyst, Voice of the Enterprise: Internet of Things, 451 Research
“In addition to solid software development and IT services roots, TCS DS&S’s pitch has another major selling point: its workplace offering, TCS IUX for Workplace Resilience, has been deployed in nearly all of its locations across India, and deployment will begin in North America this month, starting at its facility in Toronto, Canada, followed by offices in Edison, New Jersey; Cincinnati, Ohio; Plano, Texas; St. Petersburg, Florida; and Little Rock, Arkansas,” said Rich Karpinski, Senior Research Analyst, Voice of the Enterprise: Internet of Things, 451 Research
“What stands out most is its ambition in targeting not just today’s office and campus reopenings, but the growing need for enterprises to use technology – and in particular IoT and data analytics – to more intelligently and proactively manage an emerging range of environmental and operational risks, from future pandemics to population change to climate impacts,” said Rich Karpinski, Senior Research Analyst, Voice of the Enterprise: Internet of Things, 451 Research”
“Now more than ever, companies will need to rely on data-driven insights to discover new customer preferences and journeys, maintain customer relationships and ultimately improve CX,” said Sheryl Kingstone, Research Vice President & General Manager, 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence
“Businesses should seek a solution that provides true omnichannel experience – connecting online, mobile, store, devices and other channels – because digital touchpoints are now the one of the most important ways in which consumers interact with businesses,” said Sheryl Kingstone, Research Vice President & General Manager, 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence
“It is now essential for companies to leverage data-driven industry-focused solutions so they can view each stage and point of interaction along the customer journey, and take advantage of the opportunity to deliver consistent, differentiated experiences to attract, win and retain customers,” said Sheryl Kingstone, Research Vice President & General Manager, 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence
Source: COVID-19 Amplifies the Urgency for a Data-Driven Experience, 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence
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2020
“TCS’ IUX for Workplace Resilience software was named a Finalist in FinTech Futures’ 2020 Banking Tech Awards #COVID19.” Click Here for Full Report – Nov 5, 2020
“Tata Consultancy Services has announced the launch of IUX for Workplace Resilience, a business command center solution that helps enterprises make it safe for employees returning to work amid COVID-19 and for customers doing business with them.
TCS Debuts AI-Powered Software to Help Businesses Overcome Reopening Challenges of COVID-19 – July 2, 2020
“Tata Consultancy Services has announced the launch of IUX for Workplace Resilience, a business command center solution that helps enterprises make it safe for employees returning to work amid COVID-19 and for customers doing business with them.
COVID-19 has redefined the dimensions of enterprise risk, making traditional business continuity and recovery solutions incapable of tackling a host of new persistent and multifaceted challenges. Moreover, reopening businesses must follow strict mandates that go beyond personal protective equipment and social distancing.
IUX for Workplace Resilience helps overcome these by blending risk management with key business relaunch functions spanning workforce safety, regulatory support, operational resilience, and customer engagement. Designed for business leaders at banks, retailers, corporate offices and campuses emerging from the lockdown, the cloud-based solution helps organizations protect employees and customers, comply with evolving government regulations, and make operations more resilient despite ongoing disruption.
The software lets businesses monitor infection risk at locations and take immediate action, recording compliance. It enables contact tracing with proximity data from devices, such as mobile phones and badge scanners. Combined with images and video, these insights can help firms maintain optimal in-house and remote staff levels or suggest ways to move about to maintain social distancing. Businesses can also monitor employee and customer sentiment and conduct risk profiling to gauge impacts to income and supply chains.
Using analytics, a business manager at a retailer could forecast cash flow based on predictions of payments and receivables against current and predicted scenarios throughout the pandemic. In financial services, a bank manager could profile risk at specific branches by running what-if analyses based on infection rates, workforce impact and client relationships.
This offering is powered by TCS’ Intelligent Urban Exchange big data and IoT analytics platform and can ingest and apply real-time analytics to any form of information – from health and employee records to video, HR, supply chain and operations data. The software uses artificial intelligence to spot correlations, uncover insights, make predictions, and offer recommendations for making business more resilient, displaying them as visualizations on a business command dashboard.”
Source: ARC Advisory – TCS Debuts AI-Powered Software to Help Businesses Overcome Reopening Challenges of COVID-19, July 2, 2020
TCS Named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Service Providers – March 2020
Source: Gartner Inc., Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Service Providers, Jorgen Heizenberg, Twiggy Lo, Ehtisham Zaidi, Shubhangi Vashisth, Gareth Herschel, Gartner, February 10, 2020
“TCS’ AI-powered Customer Intelligence & Insights software automatically discovers consumer personas hidden in a variety of customer interaction data across channels. This provides opportunities for brands to engage a consumer in the right context and in real-time so that they’re aligned with the individual’s shopping goals and intent.”
Leslie Hand – Global Vice President, IDC Retail Insights
“The Connected Intelligence Platform is a scalable insights platform that is pre-integrated with unified big-data management, real-time stream processing, a predictive scoring engine, AI/ML engines, and data visualization capabilities. It can fulfill multiple customer needs from data lakes, data warehouse, data wrangling and advanced analytic modeling. The capabilities are packaged in a low-code development platform for businesses to build insight use cases, with a minimal skillset needed on the underlying technologies”
“Businesses need to not only capture and unify disparate sources of consumer data, but effectively contextualize and operationalize information to push critical insights across channels and the differing organizational stakeholder groups that have a hand in shaping the consumer journey…the Connected Intelligence Platform seeks to achieve this, aggregating and synthesizing multiple streams of customer data, gleaning insights with the help of machine learning to deliver a relevant, personalized experience across channels”
“The empowered consumer is increasingly demanding greater power over the interactions they have with enterprises, putting pressure on businesses to rethink their consumer engagement models…TCS’ Connected Intelligence Platform provides an analytic architecture that blends disparate data sources to deliver contextually relevant experiences,”
“The Connected Intelligence Platform is a scalable insights platform…that can fulfill multiple customer needs from data lakes, data warehouse, data wrangling and advanced analytic modeling”
“Data remains a core battleground for winning the unified customer experience…TCS’ Connected Intelligence Platform provides an analytic architecture that blends disparate data sources to deliver contextually relevant experiences“
“Digital Software & Solutions (DS&S) is a pure-play software group considered a Strategic Growth Business within Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), with TCS Customer Intelligence & Insights (CI&I) comprising a subset of the wider DS&S Group’s portfolio of products. It is designed to help enterprises identify and create differentiated customer experiences using its platform, and is specifically focused on small and midsized retailers, banks and communication service providers.”
Source: 451 Research – TCS Connected Intelligence Platform provides data foundation as strategic component to its product portfolio, Jan 2020, Sheryl Kingstone – Research Vice President & General Manager –
2019
ARC Advisory: TCS Enhances Smart City Solution to Help Urban Leaders Deliver Better Citizen Experiences – Nov 2019
“Designed to help urban leaders identify, view and analyze city-wide events in real time for better decision-making, the solution integrates diverse municipal event data and external sources, such as video, and displays them as geospatial visualizations on an Integrated City Operational Dashboard. It can be deployed in as quickly as 10 to 12 weeks.
The IUX City Command Center is designed to help urban leaders embrace a citizen-centric approach to smart cities. To enable smarter decision making it provides a holistic view and understanding of event data feeds, captured by sensors in urban infrastructure, that are associated with city departments such as traffic, water and the environment.
Powered by advanced analytics, the solution allows mayors, city managers, public safety officials and other leaders to proactively respond to escalating events by spotting hidden correlations among data displayed on the same screen, often for the first time. It automatically identifies events that affect city life, such as infrastructure failures, traffic accidents, extreme weather or other emergencies, and then guides city leaders through the most appropriate actions and procedures to resolve them.
For example, a city manager could spot the cascading effects of a water main break on bus routes and take proactive steps to reroute buses or alert passengers who use a city app. Through partnerships, local businesses could use the same insights to notify shoppers to visit their stores in unaffected areas.
Integrated urban insights from the IUX City Command Center can be shared with a variety of parties to enhance city life and economic prosperity — from urban planners and local merchants to nonprofit organizations, systems integrators, civic developers and sustainability experts. The solution features an open source technology foundation, open APIs, and a developer kit with a low-code environment to encourage partners and organizations to build their own smart city applications in collaboration with citizens and community groups.”
Source: ARC Advisory – TCS Enhances Smart City Solution to Help Urban Leaders Deliver Better Citizen Experiences, Nov 2019, by Ralph Rio
Channel Partner Insight: TCS Wins Big Data and Analytics Innovation Award for its Intelligent Urban Exchange Software, December 2019
“The Channel Innovation Awards recognize channel players across North America, which are at the forefront of innovation and are galvanizing the channel to advance into new opportunities and growth. TCS received the Big Data and Analytics Innovation Award for its Intelligent Urban Exchange City Command Center software.”
2018
Forrester: Smart City Platforms Enable The Insights-Driven City
“TCS’s Intelligent Urban Exchange enables integration with both proprietary and partner components, giving cities the flexibility to develop custom solutions or use their own selected vendors for specific functions.”
Source: Forrester Smart City Platforms Enable The Insights-Driven City, December 3, 2018, Jennifer Belissent, PhD, Michele Pelino
Ensemble IQ-EKN Research- Omnichannel Customer Intelligence, Journey and Engagement for Retailers
Improve omni-channel customer experiences with TCS’ Customer Intelligence Platform
“For industries that target consumers, it’s not enough to orchestrate the end customer’s journey across multiple channels, platforms and devices. To resonate with consumers, they must connect with a company’s multiple partner ecosystems. TCS’ Customer Intelligence Platform can help companies improve omni-channel customer experiences by integrating diverse sources of data from the Internet of Things, customer records, brick-and-mortar locations and unstructured data with partner ecosystems that represent new sources of consumer value.“
Source: EnsembleIQ Research Solutions (Formerly EKN Research) Sahir Anand, Managing VP, Research & Strategy, 3/23/2018
