Manufacturing Magazine November 2020 | Page 114

L & T TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
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“ Partners should be aligned to the end goal of the value chain to serve customers to meet their business objectives ”

— Prabhakar Shetty , Global Head of Manufacturing Services , LTTS
you use and consume technology will significantly change . Implementation models will be different because we can ’ t afford five-month consulting studies & then do a long drawn implementation or rollouts – we need something that ’ s ready now .
“ This means that most of the applications on the cloud need to be pre-built . We feel that the cloud system architecture will be divided into four or five layers .
You have the foundation processes layer that generates data , the technology layer where all enterprise applications reside , the experience layer where the user will be interacting with the system , and then cognition . The outcome of analytics is critical . But a wider view across these 5 elements is critical .”
With the importance of developing key , strategic partnerships in mind , Shetty highlights that it ’ s impossible
NOVEMBER 2020