TCS, India’s biggest Information Technology (IT) services company, is betting big on vocational training harnessing the strength of iON, the company’s digital training unit.

Starting from the third-week of February, TCS iON has announced the launch of “phygital” project, an ambitious initiative which intends to leverage both the physical and digital infrastructure to offer vocational courses in far flung areas across the country.

Confident that automation and artificial intelligence will help businesses upscale and grow bigger, a top TCS executive says the job loss fears in the IT industry are highly exaggerated and it is the organisation’s responsibility to reskill and upskill its workers. Chief Operating Officer N Ganapathy Subramaniam, who has been with TCS for 35 years and is known as NGS among colleagues, said the ‘change’ is the only constant in the IT industry and internally his company uses it as an acronym -‘Change Has Another Name, Gaining Excellence’.

Indian information technology giants TCS and Infosys have joined a global drive for tech reskilling of one million workers in the first such IT industry initiative. The exercise, whose founding partners also include Accenture, CA Technologies, Cisco, Cognizant, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Pegasystems, PwC, Salesforce, and SAP, aims to bring competitive training content on one platform to serve the greater good.

The initiative will be targeting one million people for training and resource opportunities on the World Economic Forum (WEF) SkillSET portal by January 2021.

The market capitalisation of Tata Consultancy Services surpassed Rs 6 lakh crore mark for the first time ever to become the second Indian company to achieve this milestone after RIL. In the intraday trades, TCS market capitalisation briefly breached the market cap leader RIL. Shares of TCS surged as much as 4.89% to hit the all-time high of Rs 3,254.8 after opening flat at Rs 3,100. Following a sharp spike in the share prices, India’s largest IT Company and Tata group’s cash cow TCS added as much as Rs 29,029.91 crore to Rs 6,23,052.49 crore in the market capitalisation at the day’s high price.

DAVOS: Indian IT giants TCSBSE 2.83 % and InfosysBSE 2.33 % have joined a global drive for tech reskilling of one million workers in the first ever such IT industry initiative.

The initiative, whose founding partners also include Accenture, CA Technologies, Cisco, Cognizant, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Pegasystems, PwC, Salesforce and SAP, aims to bring competitive training content together on one platform to serve the greater good.

Shares of information technology (IT) companies were continue at their upward movement with the sector giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) hit a new high crossing Rs 3,000 mark on BSE.

Besides TCS, Persistent Systems, Mindtree, Take Solutions, Tata Elxsi, Zensar Technologies, NIIT Technologies, Tech Mahindra and MphasiS were up in the range of 1% to 6% on BSE on Monday.

India’s largest IT services exporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) continued with its spree of signing large deals with the latest being a $690-million contract spread over 10 years with UK-headquartered M&G Prudential. M&G Prudential is the savings and investments business of Prudential and now, TCS will administer the former’s 4 million life and pension contracts by moving it onto a digital platform. Earlier, this contract was managed by Capita, an IT outsourcer based in the UK.

Mumbai: Tata Consultany Services (TCS) on Monday said it had bagged a five-year deal from Marks & Spencer to help the British retail giant to become a "digital first" business.

The development comes just two days after the country's largest IT services firm won its largest contract - a $2-billion deal from US insurance group Transamerica.

The country’s largest IT services exporter, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) continued its momentum of bagging multi-billion dollar deals with a multi-year contract from Transamerica worth over $2 billion, the company announced on Friday. Just last month, TCS had entered into a $2.25-billion IT outsourcing contract with Nielsen, a global TV rating measurement company. TCS said it will digitise the life insurance and annuities business of Transamerica, which is a leading provider of life insurance, retirement and investment solutions in the US.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Thursday announced that it has entered into an agreement with Transamerica, a leading provider of life insurance, retirement and investment solutions, to enable the transformation of administration of its U. S. insurance and annuity business lines.

The partnership enables Transamerica to rapidly enhance its digital capabilities, simplify the service of more than 10 million policies into a single integrated modern platform, and drive greater sustainable growth opportunities through superior customer experiences.

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