Strategic Alliances  

 TCS has strategic relationships with various global technology vendors. These relationships are in various dimensions such as Customer, Service Provider, Supplier, and Alliance Partner.

Extending collaborative research to several global technology vendors has made relationships with them more holistic. TCS and these technology vendors collaborate on joint research leveraging each other’s strengths to research and to the development of best-of-breed offerings.

The intent is to define and develop solutions with associated services and offer the same as an integrated business model to customers.

Intel

Intel and TCS provide information technology products and services that complement each other. The companies are engaging in a technology alliance model in which the two organizations collaborate on research and develop solution offerings to deliver customer-specific solutions to the marketplace.

This alliance has matured over the last two years of collaborative work, with the companies implementing a well-defined model for collaboration using a three-stage approach:

·         joint innovation engagements;

·         defining new or improved solutions;       

·         joint go-to-market strategies for the solutions.

The companies have completed two significant virtualization and balanced compute research projects with these objectives:

·         Virtualization: Demonstrate server consolidation through virtualization using multi-core Intel^® Xeon^® processors and Intel^® Virtualization Technology on a real-life customer application to reduce total cost of ownership.

·         Balanced Compute: Demonstrate and validate balanced compute model usages in real end-user scenarios, showcasing central manageability and client side computing using a combination of OS and application streaming technologies on Intel^® vPro^™ technology-based platforms.

More research projects are underway and some new ones are being identified as part of strengthening the research alliance in other areas of technology and business domains.

SAP

SAP as a leading technology and product vendor is one of the key partners of TCS. The partnership with SAP has been a long-standing one and multi-dimensional. Leveraging and extending this existing partnership to collaborate for joint research and innovation was a logical next step for both SAP and TCS.

Senior Research Scientists of SAP and TCS initiated this collaboration setting the objectives and defining the modus operandi for carrying out research in a collaborative manner. And they committed to cause by undertaking the responsibility to be Executive Sponsors in the respective organizations.

Collaboration with SAP Research was initiated after detailed discussions and exchange of research interests from both SAP and TCS. Identified areas include Model-driven Architecture and Integration of Enterprise-Data, Web 2.0, Internet of Services, and Internet of Things.

All the identified areas were then detailed further with active participation from researchers of both organizations to identify and define the details of possible research and innovation.

Hewlett-Packard

HP and TCS have initiated discussions for joint research in the areas of SaaS, Power Management & Cooling, Utility/Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Green IT and Next Generation Data Center. Some of the potential research initiatives could also involve development of market-specific offerings based on value-added services, using products and solutions from HP.

EMC²

With TCS being an IT solutions and services provider, EMC² and TCS have conceptualized IT solution architectures for specific industry-domains integrating products from EMC² and software platforms from TCS.