Tech Mahindra, SoftTech partner on digital transformation services

Tech Mahindra has announced a partnership with SoftTech with an aim to offer digital transformation services to the global construction and infrastructure industry.

SoftTech, which is an Indian publicly listed company is engaged in providing digital solutions for the construction and civil infrastructure sectors. The partnership with Tech Mahindra will combine its domain expertise with the technological capabilities of the latter to deliver tailored solutions to enable end-to-end digital transformation of business in the construction and infrastructure areas.

According to Tech Mahindra, the digital transformation collaboration will help clients in the corporate and government sectors to optimize business operations, improve efficiency, and boost customer experience. These will be driven by making use of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), digital twins, building information modeling (BIM), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), Internet of Things (IoT), construction wearables, robotics, and Metaverse, said the Indian IT company.

Tech Mahindra, SoftTech partner on providing digital transformation services to the construction and infrastructure industry. Photo courtesy of Michael Gaida from Pixabay.

Vijay Gupta — SoftTech founder, chairman, and managing director said: “We believe that the construction industry is at the cusp of undergoing a complete digital transformation, and our partnership with Tech Mahindra creates a great platform to cater to the needs of the industry.

“With Tech Mahindra’s industry-leading expertise in the manufacturing segment, the company has succeeded to scale the business upwards to cross a billion-dollar run-rate.

“We are confident that this, combined with their deep-tech capabilities in 5G and Metaverse, will provide our products scalability in terms of customer base and technical know-how, which will help deliver more value to international construction and infrastructure clients.”

Tech Mahindra said that the digital transformation partnership with SoftTech will further bolster its position in the market for the construction sector, while enabling organizations to seamlessly implement and integrate digital solutions at their various departments, functions, and teams at the desk as well as on the field.

Jagdish Mitra — Tech Mahindra Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Growth said: “The construction industry contributes 13% to the global GDP, and is required to continuously re-invent and innovate to become more efficient and address cost burdens. The industry has taken valuable strides in digitization, and the many examples of successes have increased the demand for next-gen technologies.

“Tech Mahindra and SoftTech aim to build more sustainable and responsible solutions for social and environmental impacts within AEC (Architecture-Engineering-Construction) space. An innovative online inspection-approval system, ERP solution for the real estate and construction industries, an online building information model, etc. are among the strengths of our partnership.”