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Pune , Jan. 17

Celebrating 25 years of innovation in the IT industry, the Tata Research Design and Development Centre launched the next wave of collaborative innovation through its Co-Innovation Network (COIN) on Wednesday. The network was launched by the President, Mr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

Mr S. Ramadorai, Chairman and Managing Director, speaking to presspersons said the TCS innovation model, that started in Pune 25 years ago, has been replicated across the enterprise and currently there are six TCS Corporate Innovation Centres in Pune, two each in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi working on areas such as life sciences, software-as-a-service, business process agility, semantic multimedia and natural language interfaces. In addition, it also has 19 domain and service focussed innovation labs across the globe.

He said innovation labs develop and build new domain specific solutions using new technology areas to address customer pain points.

He said the TCS COIN extended the collaborative eco-system beyond the enterprise and brought together research resources and innovation capabilities of six entities in a collaborative structure to deliver new standards of innovation for the end user. These entities are anchored by TCS Innovation labs and include global academic institutes, venture capital funds, silicon valley start-up companies, its alliance partners and multilateral bodies.

Mr K. Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, noted that the COIN partners had already started working to deliver joint solutions in new technology areas and would be deployed in the next fiscal, 2007-08. These would be in the areas such as collaborative computing and SaaS. He added that some of these solutions are in the market already such as Next Generation Software Methodology, utility computing and bio-informatics.

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