The Department of Computer Science organized a Field Trip on 1st March 2024 to Tangentia India Technologies (Pvt) Ltd., Panjim and to the Exhibition at National Space Science Symposium 2024 (NSSS 2024) at Goa University campus. The objective of the field trip was to provide students with insights into the operations and functioning of an IT company. The visit aimed to enhance students’ understanding of real-world applications of technology, industry trends, and career opportunities in the IT sector.
The students were briefed about the company by Ms. Sonia Kuncalienker, Regional Sales Manager at Tangentia. She highlighted that Tangentia is a Canada based IT company leading in Autonomous Digital Transformation, besides being one of the leading providers of AI services, helping companies harness the power of AI. The company has been offering service and sales for more than 20 years, since its inception in 2003. Besides its offices in Goa, it has spread across Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, America and Mexico.
Ms. Kuncalienker, also focused on the practices followed by Tangentia namely, Intelligent Automation, Supply Chain and Tangentia Intelligent Automation (TiA). Intelligent Automation basically deals with Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Process Mining Management. Under Supply Chain the company handles Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), B2B and B2C E-Commerce and IBM Sterling. TiA is the proprietary product of Tangentia and has been developed over a period of research by the company. The TiA Industry Accelerator (TiA IA) which is part of the TiA Platform has been built to serve the needs of various industries such as banking, pharmaceutical and manufacturing, offering deployment-ready software solutions built to accelerate business processes. Its capabilities can be extended, modified or customized, depending on the individual needs of the company, making it the ideal solution for process automation.
As the session progressed, Ms. Kuncalienker mentioned the 4P Delivery Model followed by the company, which basically expands to People, Project, Platforms and Partner. The company is also a certified partner with Software giants like Google and Microsoft.
As the session concluded, Ms. Kuncalienker shared one of Tangentia’s success story that was shared by Nations Translation Group – the ability to harness the power of IBM WDG RPA technology in order to create a bot that reads emails in real-time, extracts key info from documents, and updates Bridgeterm, the request tracking software. As a result, emails are now attended to promptly, no more missed requests, and users have real-time access to status reports.
The QA session followed wherein students put forth questions related to the soft skill requirement, the various opportunities in an IT sector, and about internships offered by Tangentia in Robotic Process Automation. Positive feedback for the session was provided by Anushree Shirodkar from FY BCA and Joel Fernandes from SY BCA. The SYBCA students also discussed their project ideas and got an insight into learning the right technology to take their project ahead in their final year.
A visit to the Exhibition at National Space Science Symposium 2024 got the students an opportunity to interact with Mr. Satyendra Kumar, a PhD Student from IIT Kanpur, who explained in brief about the role of technology in the context of the Chandrayaan Mission and also provided a reference to see the Moon and its craters for exploration in that area.
The faculty In-charge for the field trip were Ms. Annette Santimano and Ms. Sweta Verenkar. 37 students from the BCA and B.Voc.(ST) programmes benefited from the field trip. Students gave very positive feedback about the trip as it was also a requirement given by students to the Mentoring Cell for organizing more field trips.
