TCS strengthens relationship with Microsoft, eyes big on training 25,000 engineers

The IT company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced to strengthen its relationship with Microsoft by unveiling plans to train 25,000 engineers on Azure OpenAI. The current decision is followed by the plans of the IT service giant to launch its new Generative AI Enterprise Adoption offering on Microsoft Cloud.  

Siva Ganesan, Head of Microsoft Business Unit at TCS said, "Generative AI upends how enterprises can grow revenue, create new innovations, and get more work done. It’s a game-changer that has the potential to do all of this faster, better, and more cost-effectively. With TCS Generative AI Enterprise Adoption, our joint customers can unlock new growth opportunities and embark on an exciting journey of innovation – guided by AI expertise and in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Cloud.” 

TCS holds for Microsoft specialisations in AI

TCS currently accounts for over 50,000 employees with AI training. Moreover the company holds Microsoft specialisations in AI,  machine learning on Azure, and analytics on Azure, as well as membership in Microsoft's AI Council and Partner Designation in Data and AI. 

The Generative AI Enterprise Adoption offering would combine contextual knowledge from TCS with its expertise in Azure Open AI service to help clients improve customer experience, introduce new business models, increase revenue, and improve productivity. 

With the help of this framework, TCS and client teams will brainstorm AI-driven solutions for their most pressing business issues, develop proofs of concept on Azure Open AI, develop solution roadmaps, collect stakeholder feedback, train the models, construct sufficiently robust guardrails, and deploy the solutions. 

TCS Generative AI Enterprise Adoption on Azure Offering provides customers with the information and resources they need to harness the power of generative AI to accelerate innovation and business growth,” said Kelly Rogan, CVP, Global System Integrators and Advisory Partners, Microsoft. 

Current decision to help programmers and clients 

Recent information has confirmed that through advisory, foundational set-up, and rollout services centred on GitHub Copilot, a generative AI tool built on Azure OpenAI's language models ,is said to help programmers in developing code more quickly and efficiently. Moreover, TCS will also assist clients in accelerating software development and increasing programmer productivity.

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Simply put, this Mumbai based company is improving its own suite of products and platforms to take advantage of the new technology, in addition to assisting clients in adopting generative AI using Azure Open AI.