'GenAI does not move the needle in terms of budget'
Business Standard|July 15, 2024
For Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT services firm, the first-quarter (Q1) FY25 numbers announced recently indicate a trend of return to growth. K KRITHIVASAN, managing director and chief executive officer of TCS, is sure the coming quarter will see growth across verticals and geographies. In an interview with Shivani Shinde at TCS House in Mumbai, he talks about why he is hesitant to call out growth, emerging markets driving growth, GenAl projects, and others. Edited excerpts:
Shivani Shinde
'GenAI does not move the needle in terms of budget'

While you said FY25 would be better than FY24, you also remarked that it is still too early to say whether the growth momentum is sustainable. Why this divergence?

This is not a mismatch. We are sure FY25 is going to be better because of the exit rates that we have seen as we ended FY24 and what we saw in Q1. This gives us confidence that FY25 will be a better year. But to call out that all problems are behind us is a bit early. The underlying business sentiment has not changed significantly.

Total contract value (TCV) numbers are soft too...

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