The arm of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) that focuses on building software has allied with Tech Data to bring a digital business transformation platform based on open source software to the channel.
While TCS clearly has thousands of IT services personnel of its own, the opportunity surrounding digital business transformation is so large even TCS can handle by itself, says Lou Sassano, global head of channels for the Digital Software and Solutions Group within TCS.
As a result, TCS is committed to developing a channel ecosystem around a Big Data analytics platform TCS built specifically to drive digital business transformation initiatives using open source code across multiple vertical industry sectors, says Sassano.
That approach eliminates the need for channel partners to stitch together the same open source technologies to build a platform that TCS is already making available via a software subscription, says Sassno.
That TCS platform is also designed to be implemented in as little as 10 to 12 weeks, adds Sassano.
Most of the profitability partners engaging in these types of projects will come from the services they provide, so the real issue for partners is finding a way to stand up the core platform on which those services revolve as quickly as possible.
“It’s about simplification, acceleration, and affordability,” says Sassano.
Partners also have the option of extending the TCS platform via a set of open application programming interfaces defined by TCS.
There’s clearly no shortage of options when it comes to building and deploying platforms for driving digital business transformation initiatives. The more difficult challenge is often getting customers to holistically embrace such transformation initiatives versus simply modernizing a single process. But whatever the path forward, it’s apparent that at least through the next half decade or more the opportunities channel partners will have to help drive those projects will be nothing if not plentiful.
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