TCS and Cisco Launch Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Enterprise

24 Feb 2026 CW Team

The centre will act as an experience hub designed to enable customers to achieve higher levels of autonomy by following the TCS five-level Services Autonomy Model. It will bring together technologies and expertise from both companies to develop next generation AI-first solutions spanning industry verticals and to demonstrate contextualised offerings tailored to client-specific business processes. The facility is described as a co-innovation platform where contextualised solutions will be refined and validated against real operational scenarios.

Autonomous operations will be supported by an Agentic AI mesh that senses and contextualises behavioural states in real time, assists through conversational AI layers and orchestrates self-healing via intelligent automation frameworks. The shift is presented as more than a technology or efficiency change as it reorients IT support towards measurable business outcomes rather than performance metrics alone. It is also intended to break down organisational silos and foster integrated, experience-focused operating models that align IT activity with enterprise goals.

The collaboration leverages Cisco observability and AIOps capabilities together with TCS products such as ignio and Cognix alongside Cisco AppDynamics and Splunk to create comprehensive enterprise-grade application and tool ecosystems. The Centre will showcase context-aware solutions that provide real time visibility and AI-driven decision making to enhance user experience while significantly reducing operational overhead. The partnership between the companies spans two decades and is intended to accelerate enterprise adoption of Perpetually Adaptive operations through co-innovation and customised solutions.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Cisco have launched a Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Enterprise Operations in Hyderabad at the TCS Synergy Park Campus. The centre is intended to help organisations move from rule-based automation to intelligent, self-governing operations that understand context in real time and take actions autonomously. By enabling zero-touch operations the initiative aims to reduce operational complexity and remove friction across existing IT environments, thereby delivering exponential business outcomes. The centre will act as an experience hub designed to enable customers to achieve higher levels of autonomy by following the TCS five-level Services Autonomy Model. It will bring together technologies and expertise from both companies to develop next generation AI-first solutions spanning industry verticals and to demonstrate contextualised offerings tailored to client-specific business processes. The facility is described as a co-innovation platform where contextualised solutions will be refined and validated against real operational scenarios. Autonomous operations will be supported by an Agentic AI mesh that senses and contextualises behavioural states in real time, assists through conversational AI layers and orchestrates self-healing via intelligent automation frameworks. The shift is presented as more than a technology or efficiency change as it reorients IT support towards measurable business outcomes rather than performance metrics alone. It is also intended to break down organisational silos and foster integrated, experience-focused operating models that align IT activity with enterprise goals. The collaboration leverages Cisco observability and AIOps capabilities together with TCS products such as ignio and Cognix alongside Cisco AppDynamics and Splunk to create comprehensive enterprise-grade application and tool ecosystems. The Centre will showcase context-aware solutions that provide real time visibility and AI-driven decision making to enhance user experience while significantly reducing operational overhead. The partnership between the companies spans two decades and is intended to accelerate enterprise adoption of Perpetually Adaptive operations through co-innovation and customised solutions.

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