Mr. S Ramadorai, vice-chairman of Tata Consultancy Services and SRCC chairman is quoted.

Source: The Times of India / 3 May 2013

MUMBAI: An altruistic streak among Mumbaikars will help launch the city's first super-specialty hospital meant only for children.

Through a donation drive organized by NGO GiveIndia, a dozen of Mumbai's families and corporate houses have pitched in to build the hospital which will come up at Haji Ali in the next two years.

The hospital is the brainchild of the Society for Rehabilitation of Crippled Children (SRCC) and will be managed by Bangalore-based heart surgeon Devi Shetty's Narayana Hrudayalaya chain of hospitals.

S Ramadorai, vice-chairman of Tata Consultancy Services and SRCC chairman, told TOI, "The hospital will be built in three phases. We have collected half the money for Phase I, which will include setting up of 115 beds."

Mr. Sanjay Karve, Head of the Innovation and Transformation Group at TCS is quoted.

Source: Onesource - Thomasnet.com / 2 May 2013

MUMBAI, India, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The toughest challenges for businesses implementing Big Data May 2, 2013 - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) launched its first Plant in a Box (PIB) offering during MESA 2013 North American Conference. According to TCS, this offering, which leverages such models as MESA's B2MML and ISA 95, is intended to help manufacturers rapidly set up, operate, optimize, and replicate lean manufacturing plant business systems. Initially, offering will focus on automotive industry, both OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, with intention to extend to other discrete and process industries.

Press release date: April 22, 2013

New Offering Uses MESA Best Practices with Aim to Improve Software Outcomes for Manufacturing Industries Greenville, SC - MESA International (MESA) is pleased to announce Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) launched its first Plant in a Box (PIB) offering during the MESA 2013 North American Conference today. MESA's community focuses on best practices for successful software implementation and TCS states that this new offering leverages such models as MESA's B2MML and ISA 95. TCS says this offering is intended to help manufacturers rapidly set up, operate, optimize, and replicate lean manufacturing plant business systems. For companies moving production facilities close to their target markets, enabling quick and effective ramp-up of new facilities is critical to success. The offering will initially focus on the Automotive Industry - both OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, with the intention to extend the solution to other discrete and process industries down the road.

"We are delighted that TCS has chosen MESA's North American Conference as the venue to launch this new offering," said MESA President Michael Yost. "Our members need to see new and evolving solutions as they come to market and understand how they can most successfully and reliably leverage them. MESA encourages companies to contribute to the conversations shaping how modern Information Technologies enhance production operations, and that's what TCS has done here today."

TCS is a Gold Keystone Sponsor of MESA International and a sponsor of the Business Forum at MESA's 2013 North American Conference. The PIB offering includes both commercial enterprise software and Process Framework that rests on a set of models specific to automotive needs. The intention of the models is to help optimize the plant and supply chain and better ensure the enterprise software implementation results in the desired business outcomes.

"Implementing the TCS PIB solution will provide customers with better opportunities to enable a performance-driven plant with visibility to performance driven by key performance indicators (KPIs). With that advantage, they can improve on the key metrics that MESA identifies in its Metrics and Performance Management research: time to market, market share, costs, and return on investment," said Sanjay Karve, Head of the Innovation and Transformation Group at TCS.

Press contact: DeAnn Fedyski - MESA International 480.893.6883 deann@mesa.org
Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association - www.MESA.org
MESA International, 107 S. Southgate Dr., Chandler, AZ 85226 USA
Tel: 480.893.6883 - Fax: 480.893.7775 - hq@MESA.org

At the core of PIB are a plant management model, detailed business processes and KPIs for lean operations realized on an enterprise software platform. PIB also includes interface models for effective interaction with supplier, customer and shop-floor systems. The software included has pre-configured processes, scenarios, reports, collaboration, and integration to select MES and PLM systems. PIB combined with TCS' Manufacturing Operations Transformation (MOT) methodology is intended to allow customers to rapidly deploy standardized processes and systems in a plant and enable quick value creation.

About MESA International

MESA International (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association) is a global not-for-profit industry association dedicated to improving outcomes for businesses and their people through the use of manufacturing information. MESA is comprised of manufacturers, producers, solution providers, and industry thought leaders collaborating to formulate practical strategies to turn plant-floor data into valuable knowledge for enterprise success. We do this by:

• Collecting, sharing, and publishing best practices to help drive greater productivity and the overall profitability of the manufacturing enterprise. Over 800 webcasts, guidebooks, whitepapers, studies, and surveys are available for download in our Resource Library.
• Educating professionals through our IACET-accredited MESA Global Education Program (GEP).
• Facilitating collaboration among members in over 40 countries who connect, contribute, cultivate understanding, and exchange strategies to drive business results through real-time enterprise and Plant to Enterprise (P2E) integration.
• Creating partnerships with other industry associations and experts like the World Batch Forum (WBF). Our 2012 merger broadens our knowledge of ISA-95 related standards like B2MML, and ISA-88 related standards like BatchML.

About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT, BPO,infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 276,000 of the world's best-trained consultants in 44 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $11.6 billion for year ended March 31, 2013 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

Source: The Times of India / 28 April 2013

NAGPUR: Six post offices of Nagpur region are among the 124 offices in the country where India Post will be first implementing core banking solutions (CBS). This initiative is part of postal department efforts towards modernization of its services.

In the pilot phase, eight postal circles have been selected. They include Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. The six offices from Nagpur Region are Nagpur City head office (HO), Nagpur GPO; Gondia HO, Khamgaon HO, Wardha HO and Yavatmal HO. Offices coming under these HOs will be also covered under the project.

In Nagpur Region, the CBS is scheduled to become operational by June. According to the department officials, everything is on track. "We hope to implement the system as per schedule unless there is some glitch. The National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) is helping us in this process while TCS is conducting training of our employees," said Haq.

Source: Khaleej Times / 28 April 2013

Did you know that Bill Gates wrote the first software for the online version of the game Tic-Tac-Toe? Or that John McCarthy coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence'? For it was mostly the adults who were sitting scratching their heads baffled at the quiz questions asked at the third edition of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) IT Wiz UAE Edition.

The participating students and those in the audience had the answers on the tip of their tongues.

Over the last three years, the only IT themed quiz has definitely gotten bigger and more challenging. With participation from over 38 schools from various emirates across the UAE, the third edition of the TCS IT Wiz-UAE edition saw boys from Grades 8 to 12 battle it out for the coveted IT Wiz trophy.

Source: Financial Channel / 28 April 2013

The FINANCIAL - Tata Group Innovation Forum (TGIF) announced the winners of the Tata Innovista 2013 at an awards ceremony held in Mumbai.

Tata Innovista is a group-wide programme held annually to encourage, recognise and showcase outstanding innovations done by Tata companies across the globe.

The participation received under another defining category, The Leading Edge - Proven Technologies, indicates a healthy pipeline of promising business ideas that Tata companies are looking at putting out in the future. Over 600 entries were received under this category which recognises and rewards the most innovative technology that is developed and piloted, but is yet to be commercialised. This year The Leading Edge awards went to Tata Consultancy Services and Tata Steel.