Big data is a game-changer: TCS’ Satya Ramaswamy
Big Data has become one of the top initiatives of TCS, says Ramaswamy
Mumbai: Companies are increasingly focusing on big data, spending between $2.5 million and $500 million a year on analysing large amounts of complex information that would help them improve their business strategies, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) found in a recent study. Obviously, big data has become one of the top initiatives of TCS, India’s largest software services provider, said Satya Ramaswamy, global mobility head and vice-president at the company. Ramaswamy, who joined TCS in 2010 after it bought Brightfon Inc., the mobile solutions firm he had founded, is helping TCS build a large big data team at Silicon Valley in California, US, he said in an interview at the Saïd Business School Oxford India Business forum on 5 April. Edited excerpts:
But how big is the TCS big data team?
At TCS, we believe we have one of the biggest big data and analytics team in the world, not only in size but also in talent. We have a training programme for big data, which we formally started one-and-a-half years back. Some of the players in the space like Cloudera Inc. (develops open source software on big data) is a pioneering start-up in the space. Cloudera now collaborates closely with TCS and we have the largest pool of Cloudera certified big data experts in the world. We have people who can talk in-depth about the origin of big data.
So what kind of products is TCS developing for big data?
To what extent are companies spending on big data projects?
What are the other important insights of the big data study by TCS on its potential?
But in which division at TCS does big data fall under?
Why has TCS set up its big data division in the US?
We believe big data is a global phenomenon and we are right at the source of this movement. We are positioned in Silicon Valley, which is the epicentre of big data when it was implemented by companies like Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. Every single start-up here is contributing to the phenomenon and we at TCS contribute back by hosting meet-ups in Santa Clara. We are creating a global team from Silicon Valley and scaling it up rapidly.
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