Infosys tech innovations at French Open, TCS bags deal from Swedish Bank

Infosys unveils new tech innovations at French Open

Infosys and the French Tennis Federation (FFT) announced new innovations at the fan engagement level besides other tools to assist players, coaches, media, tournament organisers, and the community for the ongoing French Open tournament.

Among the new innovations include fan engagement, powered by a mix reality (XR) and AI-enabled motion analysis. Fans can practice and measure their serving skills just like the pros at the all-new Infosys x Wilson Smash Corner at Roland Garros. Using high-tech cameras, Infosys will record and superimpose individual serves on Court Philippe-Chatrier, as if they were serving on the main court.

It has added a new analytical feature to Infosys’ AI-Assisted Journalism tool to help media track and report from the court to fans at home. For the players, it has added a new feature of AI videos called ‘Get in the Zone’, where it curates custom video playlists and loads all the winning trends against specific opponents to influence players' mindset pre-match.

TCS bags deal from Ikano Bank of Sweden

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has bagged an order from Ikano Bank in Sweden to implement the TCS BaNCS banking SaaS platform for the bank’s European operations.

Operating across Europe, Ikano Bank offers a range of financial services and banking products, including loans, savings, mortgages, credit cards, and leasing and factoring to small and medium-sized businesses. It runs on different core banking solutions in the eight countries it operates in, working with multiple broker solutions and agency banking arrangements.

Now, with TCS BaNCS, Ikano Bank will have a unified technology infrastructure, which will be common across all its European branches. The bank aims to transform and consolidate its pan-European accounts, deposits, and unsecured retail lending business on TCS BaNCS, starting with Sweden.

CtrlS Datacenters to open facility in Bhubaneswar

CtrlS Datacenters has laid the foundation stone for setting up a data centre in Bhubaneswar with a planned investment of over Rs 150 crore. This data centre will be a planned 5 MW facility designed to serve hyperscale, government, and enterprise customers and will provide a range of hosting and cloud services.

CtrlS is on an expansion spree to set up a series of Edge data centres in India across Tier II and III cities. The company currently operates such facilities in Lucknow and Patna. It plans to set up over 20 Edge data centres in the coming years.

The company began its operations in 2007 and operates 10 data centres across key markets and is adding more by 2024. The data centres are located in Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Lucknow, and Patna.

R Systems appoints former Infosys executive as CEO

R Systems, a product engineering company, has appointed Nitesh Bansal as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, effective May 30, 2023. He joins R Systems after spending a little over two decades at Infosys, where he held several leadership roles.

R Systems, owned by global private equity company Blackstone, has over 4,400 employees with a presence in 26 locations. It engages with the latest technologies such as cloud, automation, AI, ML, analytics, and mixed reality to provide solutions for multiple industries.