TCS Partners with Vishal Sikka’s Vianai to Bring GenAI to Executive Decision-Making

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has partnered with Vianai Systems, founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, to introduce generative AI (GenAI) tools for enterprise decision-making.

TCS is embedding GenAl into core business functions, making Al a boardroom priority.

The collaboration aims to accelerate Al adoption across industries, improving efficiency and decision-making. This partnership represents a major step in integrating trustworthy Al into corporate decision-making.

Key Highlights:

• Hila Platform: Vianai’s Hila platform enables C-suite executives to interact with business data using natural language, eliminating the need for technical expertise. Hila is expected to be particularly useful in financial services, where data complexity often slows decision-making.
• Strategic Focus: TCS will customize Hila for finance, supply chain, sales, and CRM, ensuring seamless integration into enterprise systems.
• AI-Driven Insights: The platform enhances real-time decision-making, allowing executives to query internal data and receive actionable insights.
• Anti-Hallucination Features: Hila is designed for accuracy, speed, and trust, incorporating techniques to prevent AI-generated errors.

This collaboration aligns with TCS’s broader AI strategy, embedding GenAI into core business functions to simplify analytics and improve efficiency.

Hila enables C-suite leaders to interact with business data using natural language, eliminating the need for technical expertise. The platform allows executives to query internal data and receive instant, actionable insights.

Designed for accuracy and trust, Hila incorporates safeguards to prevent Al-generated errors.

TCS will tailor Hila for industries like finance, supply chain, sales, and CRM, ensuring seamless integration. TCS will provide ongoing assistance to ensure smooth adoption and functionality.

This partnership aligns with TCS's broader Al-driven transformation initiatives.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has formed several strategic partnerships with AI companies to enhance enterprise solutions and drive AI adoption.

To recall, TCS launched the Cognix™ Platform for Network Services on Google Cloud, strengthening its GenAI solutions for clients in communications, media, and information services. They also set up a GenAI Experience Centre at the TCS Pace Port™ in New York to help clients prototype AI-driven solutions.

TCS also collaborates with Microsoft to integrate AI-driven automation into enterprise applications, focusing on cloud-based AI solutions. Further, TCS has worked with IBM Watson to develop AI-powered analytics for industries like banking, healthcare, and retail.

KPMG in India and Vianai Systems Announce Alliance to Bring AI-based Conversational Finance to CFOs with Vianai's hila™ Enterprise

Alliance Introduces Reliable AI for Finance Users to Ask Any Question of Enterprise Systems in Real-Time, in Natural Language

Finance Users Can Leverage AI to Ask Questions and Get Accurate Answers in Dashboards, Charts or Text, On-the-Fly, without Intermediaries or Specialized Visualization Tools

KPMG in India, one of the leading professional services firms, and Vianai Systems, a leading Human-Centered AI (H+AI™) platform and products company, today announced a transformational alliance to put reliable, conversational AI directly into the hands of finance users with Vianai's hila Enterprise.

The innovative joint offering by KPMG in India and Vianai Systems will leverage Vianai's hila Enterprise fine-tuning and optimization capabilities, with enterprise systems of record. Targeted specifically at finance professionals, Conversational Finance will allow finance users to ask any question against their systems of record, internal documents, public data, and other data in natural language, with a view to get immediate responses by way of text, dashboards, charts and more.

Today the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in enterprises has largely been a non-starter for business users that require an extremely high degree of accuracy and reliability, in particular those in finance roles. Issues of LLM hallucinations and inaccuracies are simply too risky for business-critical functions such as finance to adopt AI.

As a result, finance teams have not been able to take advantage of the latest AI advancements and instead many still rely heavily on Information Technology (IT), analysts, visualization tools, experts, and others to find answers to their questions.

The alliance would see both KPMG in India and Vianai Systems leveraging their respective expertise and resources together to provide this innovative Conversational Finance offering to enterprises looking to transform their finance function.

"Finance functions in enterprises today have an unparalleled need for accuracy, privacy, and security as well as relevance to the context of business. Leveraging the power of LLMs with internal data sources, transaction systems, documents, and other data, as well as public information, would allow enterprises to paint a transparent and accurate picture of their business, and industry. These LLMs can also help finance functions play a critical role in ensuring resilience towards a challenging risk and regulatory environment.

Moreover, while independent SaaS (ERP, CRM, HRMS) companies are geared to launch their own co-pilots, they will fall short in desired value creation, specifically when cross functional insights are required. Large generic models are not able to deliver this today, and we are excited for Vianai Systems and KPMG in India to finally unlock this value for the finance functions of enterprises today," said Sachin Arora, Partner and Head, KPMG Lighthouse (Analytics, AI and Data), KPMG in India.

"Delivering the power of AI into the hands of finance users is a foundational step toward making AI available to all business-critical functions. Finance departments and teams must have transparency in their work, and deliver transparency to the outside world – with speed. We are thrilled to be working closely with KPMG to make this a reality for every organization in every industry," said Dr. Sanjay Rajagopalan, Chief Design & Strategy Officer, Vianai Systems.

How hila Enterprise works: business-relevant generative AI, in context, for enterprise CFOs:

• hila Enterprise leverages a full suite of AI tools, techniques and technologies including Vianai's Zero Hallucination™ technology, veryLLM verification capabilities, fine-tuning and optimization techniques, and more, making LLMs safer, more reliable and context-relevant for business users.
• The system leverages large public models, open-source language models, Vianai-built models as well as the customer's own models to enable querying of large amounts of data in the context of the business.
• Customers can query any transactional system within their enterprise landscape to get maximum insights via natural language interaction with systems in real-time.
• Business users get a response generated from public and private business data, in real-time, in the form of the user's choosing, whether as a dashboard, chart, text or other response format.

About KPMG in India

KPMG entities in India are professional services firm(s). These Indian member firms are affiliated with KPMG International Limited. KPMG was established in India in August 1993. Our professionals leverage the global network of firms, and are conversant with local laws, regulations, markets and competition. KPMG has offices across India in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Vadodara and Vijayawada.

KPMG entities in India offer services to national and international clients in India across sectors. We strive to provide rapid, performance-based, industry-focused and technology-enabled services, which reflect a shared knowledge of global and local industries and our experience of the Indian business environment.

About Vianai Systems, Inc.

Vianai Systems, Inc. is a human-centered AI (H+AI™) platform and products company focused on bringing trustworthy, responsible and transformative AI systems to enterprises worldwide. The company's hila™ Enterprise platform enables enterprises to safely and reliably deploy large language enterprise solutions, leveraging its Zero Hallucination™ technologies, veryLLM open-source code, breakthrough fine-tuning and optimization techniques as well as its LLM monitoring capabilities – to analyze, discover and explore data within systems of record, in natural language. The hila Enterprise platform helps enterprises minimize the risks of AI, while taking full advantage of the transformation potential of reliable AI systems. A showcase of the underlying capabilities of hila Enterprise can be accessed for free by anyone to ask any financial question about publicly traded companies at www.hila.ai. Follow @VianaiSystems on Vianai Twitter and Vianai LinkedIn.

 

VIANAI Systems Introduces 1st Human-Centered AI Platform for the Enterprise

Automation-Focused Hype Gives Way to a More Human-Centered Approach to AI; Vianai Brings Proven H+AI Methods for Driving Transformative Business Outcomes

Vianai Systems ("Vian"), the human-centered AI platform and products company, today launched the Vian H+AITM Platform for reliable, optimized enterprise- wide deployment, management and governance of machine learning (ML) models at scale. The Vian H+AI Platform brings a human-centric approach, combined with advanced AI techniques to address and remove barriers that currently prevent widespread AI adoption into production environments. A lack of trust, transparency and governance of AI models over their entire lifecycles, exacerbated by skyrocketing infrastructure costs, has significantly slowed the time- to-value of ML models – preventing enterprises from realizing the full potential of their AI investments. Vian is on mission to change that.

The first set of capabilities available within the Vian H+AI Platform includes Vian MLOps for managing, optimizing, deploying, and governing ML models for production at scale. The Vian H+AI MLOps Platform provides a collaborative user experience across the AI workflow between data scientists, MLOps engineers, and risk auditors to operationalize and manage models as a continuous lifecycle over a long period of time. Vian Performance Optimization within the Platform dramatically accelerates model speed and throughput even on commodity hardware. In addition, the open, modular architecture of the Vian H+AI MLOps Platform enables MLOps teams to seamlessly leverage the entire end-to-end capabilities of the Platform or simply use components of it, to create a truly customized solution to fit their specific needs.

"AI plays a strategic role at Schneider Electric, in our products and services, and in business operations. We have tested Vianai's platform on our AI applications running in remote oil pumps, and observed very impressive AI model execution speed and throughput improvements on the same hardware,” said Dr. Peter Weckesser, Chief Digital Officer and Member of the Executive Committee, Schneider Electric. “Based on this outstanding performance, we are evaluating additional potential use-cases in Energy Management and Industrial Automation leveraging Vianai’s technology to enable us to deliver high-performance AI safely and scalably across our ecosystem."

“Over the last three years, we have worked with dozens of the world’s largest and most respected companies, to learn the needs of businesses that AI must serve. Our H+AI platform marries those business needs with our advanced technical work, using the power of design thinking, and the result is several breakthroughs that create a new category of AI capabilities. Capabilities that early enterprise AI tools simply do not have,” said Dr. Vishal Sikka, Founder &CEO, Vianai Systems, "Our platform delivers AI that is high-performance, low-footprint and cloud-agonistic, and at the same time, transparent, reliable and manageable across the lifespan of data, business activities and models, at global scale. We are now bringing this new class of AI capabilities, via our powerful platform and the extraordinary business benefits that our early customers have seen, to all enterprises."

With the Vian H+AI MLOps Platform, enterprises can now build a foundation for human- centered AI systems. The Platform combines several open-source tools, Vian-proprietary techniques and optimizations, and a human-centric approach to bring AI to the enterprise at scale across diverse landscapes. 

With the Vian H+AI MLOps Platform, enterprises have maximum flexibility in model-building tools used by data scientists, can dramatically accelerate model performance without cost-performance tradeoffs, and have a central place to manage all models including end-to-end lifecycle management and monitoring for risks such as drift, uncertainty, bias and explainability, seamlessly retraining models when and if needed. The Platform delivers these unique capabilities via its:

• Unified User Experience: MLOps engineers can now quickly operationalize models, regardless of the tools used by data scientists to create those models. There is no longer a need to restrict data scientists to using specific proprietary tools, which currently slows the process of moving AI models into production.
• Open, Modular Architecture: Vian MLOps is open source-based, built from scratch to deliver a flexible, componentized architecture. MLOps engineers can quickly and easily plug-and-play components and make decisions on the best cloud, database, repositories, and other components to use, without changing the API. In addition, the modular architecture enables MLOps teams to leverage the entire Platform end-to-end or seamlessly bring specific components of the Platform into their AI workflows.
• Performance Optimization: With Vian Performance Optimization, a key capability within the Vian H+AI Platform, customers can dramatically accelerate the execution speed and throughput of models without costly hardware upgrades.
• Risk Monitoring: Vian MLOps provides a rich set of model risk monitoring capabilities for data quality and integrity, drift, uncertainty, bias, explainability, and more. Leveraging integrated open-source as well as Vian proprietary technologies, each model can follow a customized risk monitoring plan before and after deployment to production.

Vian MLOps delivers the foundational starting point for building human-centered AI systems and reflects the company’s unique approach to creating solutions that address real business needs, based on empathy and understanding of the customer.

In its strategic engagements with customers across a variety of industries, Vian saw a clear need for a more human-centered approach to AI, in particular, the need for a platform to manage and operationalize reliable, explainable, observable, and trustworthy ML models. Going forward, the Vian H+AI Platform will deliver a wide range of advanced AI tools and techniques, to help enterprises pursue their most strategic opportunities by leveraging human-centered AI.

About Vian:

Vianai Systems, Inc. is a Human-Centered AI platform and products company launched in 2019 to address the unfulfilled promise of enterprise AI. Vian's customers include many of the largest and most respected businesses in the world, to which it delivers AI, ML and data science platforms and products. Vian helps its customers amplify the transformational potential within their organizations using its H+AI Platform and a variety of advanced AI and ML tools with a distinct approach in how it thoughtfully brings together humans with technology. This human- centered approach differentiates Vian from other platform and product companies and enables its customers to fulfill AI's true promise for the benefit of humanity.