TCS BaNCS Customer Newsletter TCS BaNCS #31 (September 2019) | Page 2

leadership view PREPARING FOR THE LEAP TO HYPERCONNECTIVITY We at TCS Financial Solutions have been working with our customers globally to make several big leaps – to move from fragmented and siloed core processing architectures to modern componentized yet integrated architectures, and from batch processing models to embracing real-time paradigms of processing and interactions. Yet we recognize that the next For a financial institution operating in this age of hyperconnectivity, merely being connected in real- time will not be enough. To retain aspects of our strategy keeping this and attract customers will require new world in mind. These revolve the highest levels of flexibility around three fundamental building and innovation and an ability to blocks reimagining business and value 1. Ability to connect, interact, and exchange data creation models which can happen leap may be even more challenging. predominantly only when they are We are entering an era of able to visualize more partnerships hyperconnectivity. with entities across the broader Hyperconnectivity will mean that there will be far more people, We are putting in place several key ecosystem. We believe that ‘designed for cloud’ solutions having support for APIs and microservices will form an essential component of success It is amply clear that in the hyperconnected world. TCS businesses and “things” online, hyperconnectivity will place already holds the leading position generating more data than ever, incredible demands on organizations, as a SaaS provider for cloud-based through network, transmitting that and TCS Financial Solutions is financial services, including Diligenta, instantaneously to an ecosystem committed to ensuring that TCS TCS’ platform for life insurance and that will in turn respond instantly BaNCS customers will be ready. In pensions in the UK; TCS BaNCS Cloud to trends and patterns in real time. every area of our business, we have for Core Banking, which handles over Competitors across borders and been working to ensure that we 100 million transactions per month; across industries are imagining ways provide open platforms and trusted and our just-launched TCS BaNCS to profit from the exponential growth networks that support real-time Cloud for Asset Servicing, which has in connectivity in ways that we have interchange of information with already started winning customers in only begun to glimpse. diverse stakeholders. the largest markets in the world. 2