The TCS innovation model, that started in Pune 25 years ago has been replicated across the enterprise and currently there are six such TCS Corporate Innovation Centres, in Pune, Hyderabad (2), Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi working on diverse areas like life sciences, software-as-a-service, business process agility, semantic multimedia and natural language interfaces. In addition, TCS also has 19 domain and service-focused Innovation Labs across the globe. TCS Innovation Labs are also committed to developing and building new domain-specific solutions using new technology areas to address customer pain points.
The TCS Co-Innovation Network extends the collaborative eco-system beyond the enterprise and brings together research resources and innovation capabilities of six entities in an collaborative structure to deliver all new standards of -innovation for the end user.These entities are anchored by TCS Innovation Labs and include global academic institutes, venture capital funds, Silicon Valley start up companies, TCS alliance partners and multi-lateral bodies.
"The COIN partners have already started working to deliver joint solutions in new technology areas and will be deployed in the market in the next financial year, 2007-08, in areas like collaborative computing and SaaS," said K. Ananth Krishnan, chief technology officer. "Some of these solutions are in the market already such as Next Generation Software Methodology, Utility Computing and Bio-Infomatics."
