TCS Splits Existing AI, Cloud Business Unit
Focusing on higher growth from unexploited market potential, India's largest IT services provider, TCS has split the existing artificial intelligence (AI) and Cloud business unit into two. It has formed a dedicated business unit focused on AI, while the other one will be dedicated to Cloud. The AI unit now led by Siva Ganesan, combines AI and data services, while Krishna Mohan heads Cloud. Ashok Krish has been appointed as the global head of AI while Satish Byravan will be the global head of Data.
The AI-Cloud business, formed about two years ago, is observed to be delivering higher growth than the TCS average, but a need was felt to double down the focus. The move is believed to reflect TCS’s aim for rapid growth by focusing on specialized AI and Cloud expertise.
Siva Ganesan, who is heading the newly created AI Data unit, stated, “AI is getting more pervasive by the day and featuring in every conversation now, and added that it is only expected to get bigger and more intense as we go ahead. For us, the volume and the vibrancy of activity we are seeing in the AI and data space has grown manyfolds in the last 12 months."
Siva declined to share details by numbers as the company does not break up AI revenue in reporting.
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He said that this would be like a central unit, a repository of all AI things.The company is hiring specialist AI talent from the market who are proficient and also focusing on training the existing talent within the organization by revamping the training curriculum.
The company aspires to grow exponentially in the evolving field of AI and capture the rapidly changing market, due to which it is inevitable to run AI as a focused and more close-to-domain unit, an official said.