Failure of applying good maintenance can surely disrupt the whole chain of industrial operations. To overcome this paradigm of maintenance Spark Cognition's analytical solution SparkPredict was introduced. It helped in overcoming the maintenance downtime and thus boosting the overall operational costs savings. SparkPredict analyzes various data whether structured or unstructured. It then uses machine learning techniques to revert with appropriate actions acceptable at that time.

COPENHAGEN MUMBAI, October 07, 2019: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been selected by Pandora, a world-leading jewellery design and manufacturer, based in Copenhagen, as a strategic IT partner. The agreement with TCS marks a major milestone in Pandora's global IT transformation, which is part of Programme NOW, the company's brand relaunch and business turnaround plan. TCS will leverage its proven Machine First Delivery Model (MFDM), powered by ignio, its award-winning cognitive automation software, to enable the digital transformation. As the service integrator and manager, TCS will be responsible for the applications landscape and the end-user management, that will be aligned to Pandora's key business metrics. Peter Cabello Holmberg, CIO, Pandora, said, "Our agreement with TCS marks an important milestone for Pandora. Now we have our future-ready IT setup fully in place to support the Programme NOW objectives. And I am convinced that TCS with its global scale, retail expertise and cutting-edge solutions in relation to automation and AI will prove a perfect match for Pandora."

Akhilesh Tripathi, Chief Commercial Officer Managing business operations with virtually no downtime may easily be at the top of the agenda for companies across all sectors in their race to stand out of the crowd and vie for customers. Time and time again, leveraging AI has proven to accelerate the overall customer experience and production. Back in 2013, Digitate noticed that organizations follow a "manufacturing conveyor belt" approach when solving IT issues. Traditional automation became a challenge and script-based tools required a larger workforce to maintain it. To address this problem, Digitate envisioned a product that was intelligent and could scale to an enterprise level.

Abhijit has 17 years of experience in Sales, Pre-Sales, and Solutions, in the products and services areas across many industries. He is responsible for globally managing the product specialist group of ignioTM. Abhijit is working with customers to drive adoption of ignio. He believes that ignio has the ability to make IT Operations resilient, significantly improving customer experience and increasing efficiency by empowering IT Operations teams. Since the launch of ignio, Abhijit has been instrumental in acquiring customers for ignio.

My colleagues and I had the privilege of attending Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) Analyst Day event held in Boston on September 7, 2018. There were several interesting and informative presentations covering the concepts of Business 4.0 and MachineFirst Philosophy and how TCS is leveraging its unparalleled domain expertise and its deep and vast portfolio of services and solutions to provide its customers with exponential value to create abundance through mass customization, leveraging ecosystems to help its customers embrace and manage risk while maximizing business outcomes using technologies and concepts such as Cloud, Intelligence, Automated and Agile. As one of the ARC Analysts focused on upstream and midstream oil & gas it was great to learn more about how TCS is leveraging'cognitive automation' through its solutions such as Ignio, an product that provides some very powerful horsepower through its self-learning capability, empowered by machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), that can move customers from predictive maintenance to prescriptive maintenance, thereby extending the life (and availability) of an asset such as a pump or compressor and also optimizing that asset's performance and the process for which it is being utilized. MachineFirst Philosophy creates exponential value by empowering enterprise agility through reimagination and reinvention of a company's DNA. Harrick Vin, Vice President & Global Head of Ignio, explained that he envisions cognitive computing platforms such as Ignio, the Intelligent Machine", as being technology that is being augmented by people and one that is capable of learning over time.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is running controlled experiments on how to open up Ignio, its artificial intelligence platform, to third party developers including rivals to build applications on, as India's largest IT services firm attempts to establish a software brand. The plan for Ignio, launched commercially three years ago, looks a lot like General Electric's strategy around its internet-of-things platform Predix. Companies can use applications built by other IT services firms on the Predix platform. But TCS is working on Ignio's business model, sales and branding strategy to differentiate it from its traditional services model. "Right now, it is a stage where we are doing controlled experiments on how to open it up to everybody. Who can build on it? It is friends and family right now. We will open it up, but we have to learn how to crawl before we start running," said Harrick Vin, global head of Digitate.

Digitate announced that it has achieved significant annual growth in both customer acquisition and revenue. The growth is due to increase in adoption of its award-winning cognitive automation product, ignio, helping enterprises dealing with IT to rapidly identify and remediate outages in minutes. According to the Economic Times of India post, the ignio, AI platform delivered $31M to TCS. According to the press release, CEO, and MD, Tata Consultancy Services, Rajesh Gopinathan, said, "Rapid breakthroughs in digital technologies – such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation – are reshaping businesses and fostering creative disruptions. The revenue and customer growth for ignio has been over 100% y-o-y. The success and growth of ignio reaffirms TCS' Business 4.0 strategy, helping customers leverage technology to innovate and gain a competitive advantage," Digitate is a venture of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

SANTA CLARA l MUMBAI, April 27, 2018: Digitate, a software unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), today announced that its cognitive automation solution, ignio, won an award for the first use of machine learning within the workload automation (WLA) analytics industry from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Connecting organizations across a common automation language, WLA builds skills that reduce errors, speed development and remove highly repetitive work, which increases productivity and reliability in defining automated tasks. As WLA continues to evolve, digitization increases and IT accelerates the integration of new technologies such as machine learning. In its quarterly WLA Radar Summary Report, EMA recognized ignio for Batch, underscoring how it keeps business processes running smoothly, reducing the time required to plan and make changes with impact analysis in minutes. Workload automation for batch jobs execution is critical to the proper operations for enterprises that have large numbers of transactions within banking and financial services, retail and manufacturing industries. For services running over 100,000 batch jobs on a daily basis, any failure could lead to business downtime the next day.

My colleagues and I had the privilege of attending Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) Analyst Day event held in Boston on September 21, 2017. There were several interesting and informative presentations covering topics such as the concept of Business 4.0 and how TCS is deploying Digital, deep domain expertise and its deep and vast portfolio of services and solutions to provide its customers with exponential value through mass customization, leveraging ecosystems to help its customers embrace and manage risk while maximizing business outcomes. As one of the ARC Analysts focused on upstream and midstream oil & gas it was great to learn more about how TCS is leveraging'cognitive automation' through its solutions such as Ignio, an product that provides some very powerful horsepower through its self-learning capability, empowered by machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), that can move customers from predictive maintenance to prescriptive maintenance, thereby extending the life (and availability) of an asset such as a pump or compressor and also optimizing that asset's performance and the process for which it is being utilized. I know first-hand that TCS is successfully helping customers in Australia with pump optimization and increasing pump availability as well as, more importantly, helping to increase the customer's gas processing operations by saving over 100-man days per year, reducing pump downtime and increasing production. Harrick Vin, Global Head of Digitate, explained that he envisions advanced analytics platforms such as Ignio as being technology being augmented by people and one that is capable of learning over time.

BENGALURU MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is creating a product brand for its artificial intelligence (AI) product Ignio and has hired from US companies to drive sales of the standalone product, a move that analysts say is akin to building a software company with a different model to its traditional services. The company is working to ensure the Ignio brand is a standalone -- with a separate website that has minimal TCS branding. Digitate, the unit that houses Ignio, is only once referred to as a TCS venture. "If you want to sell Ignio as a product, you have to create a product brand. TCS as a services brand is humongous. We have to make sure that the product can stand on its own. It is deeply embedded in TCS, but from sales and branding perspective, you have to create an identity," Harrick Vin, global head of Digitate, told ETin an interview.