Tata Consultancy Services has expanded its collaboration with Oracle by launching India's first Oracle AI Data Platform Lab and Center of Excellence (CoE) in Kolkata. The facility is designed to help organizations shape the next wave of AI-powered enterprise transformation by overcoming common barriers to AI adoption, such as fragmented data landscapes and slow analytics cycles. TCS also plans to roll out similar labs across four additional cities in India over the next three years.

Facility Overview

Housed in Delta Park Lords, Kolkata, the lab will provide customers with access to reusable architectures, industry solutions, and accelerators. This setup enables businesses to turn enterprise data into actionable intelligence and deploy AI-driven automation at scale. The Oracle AI Data Platform makes data AI-ready by harnessing the combined capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Autonomous AI Database, and OCI Enterprise AI.

Strategic Expansion

Tata Consultancy Services has outlined a roadmap to scale the initiative nationally, planning to establish similar facilities in four more geographies across the country. This expansion is supported by a centralized team of 26,000 Oracle-skilled professionals across India dedicated to supporting clients’ AI initiatives. The strategy underscores TCS's commitment to building a robust AI infrastructure ecosystem within India.

Arvind Mehra, Head, Alliances & Channels – Technology, Oracle India, stated that the lab is built on a secure, unified data foundation and integrated AI capabilities. Sudipto Ray, VP & Global Head, Oracle Practice, TCS, added that the facility is designed to accelerate the journey from ideation to full-scale deployment, helping clients reimagine their operational strategies in data analytics and rapid application development.

Tata Consultancy Services has announced a global strategic partnership with Anthropic, the frontier AI company behind Claude, to help customers scale enterprise AI adoption. The collaboration, announced on June 11, 2026, focuses on transforming core enterprise functions and co-innovating industry solutions, with a specific emphasis on highly regulated sectors where accuracy and governance are critical.

Strategic Collaboration and Workforce Enablement

As a Global Premier Partner in the Claude Partner Network, TCS will establish a dedicated Business Unit to deliver customer value propositions and deep AI expertise through early access to Claude models. A central pillar of this partnership is a large-scale workforce development initiative. TCS will equip 50,000 associates across engineering, finance, legal, marketing, and sales with Claude through enterprise-wide licensing. This internal deployment aims to transform TCS's own operations while generating insights to drive client success.

Focus on Regulated Sectors

The partnership is designed to address the specific challenges of regulated industries, where AI initiatives often stall at the pilot stage due to stringent requirements for accuracy, auditability, and oversight. TCS and Anthropic will jointly go to market with AI solutions for sectors such as financial services, public services, life sciences, healthcare, aviation, telecom, and medtech. By combining TCS's governance and implementation expertise with Anthropic's models, the partnership aims to provide a practical path to enterprise-wide adoption.

Industry Solutions and Talent Development

The collaboration extends to specific TCS products and platforms. In the UK, Diligenta, TCS' FCA-regulated life and pensions business, will use Claude to improve customer experience. Additionally, BFSI teams will leverage Claude Code to enhance productivity in software engineering. TCS iON will deliver learning and certification on Claude models, conducting over 75 million annual assessments across India to build a future-ready, AI-certified workforce. TCS will also contribute domain-led engineering expertise to the Claude Code ecosystem through reusable skills and plugins.