Top 10: Digital Engineering Firms

Digital engineering firms accelerate product development and enhance physical systems through a range of virtual solutions, such as digital twins.

By using AI, simulation and advanced data, leading digital engineering companies transform traditional engineering processes into agile, collaborative workflows.

Digital engineering helps create more intelligent and personalised products for construction teams and their clients. Through data analytics, construction teams can make more informed decisions which create more benefits to the project.

Here, Construction Digital takes a look at the Top 10 digital engineering firms which are leading the way in ensuring productivity.

10. TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)

Employees: 685,000
CEO: K. Krithivasan
Founded: 1968

Since it was founded in 1968, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has worked to champion innovation and engineering excellence throughout its operations. With a focus on creating long-term value for its clients, investors, employees and the surrounding community, TCS has the capability to apply and scale new technologies at pace.

TCS addresses low profit margins, labour shortages and inefficiencies in the construction industry through its digital transformation, consulting and technology solutions. Using technologies such as IoT, AI and cloud-based systems, it helps enhance productivity in the industry.

9. EPAM Systems

Employees: 62,000
CEO: Balazs Fejes
Founded: 1993

EPAM leverages is software engineering experience to provide digital engineering, cloud and AI-enabled transformation services to its partners around the world. By utilising EPAM Continuum’s integrated strategy experience and technology consulting alongside its more than 30 years of engineering experience, it helps clients transform their operations.

It improves agility and efficiency of its construction clients through the integration of cloud-native platforms, AI and data analytics. It works to enhance its clients' competitive edge with solutions across a range of industries.

8. Infosys

Employees: 330,000
CEO: Salil Parekh
Founded: 1981

Infosys offers a range of digital transformation solutions for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, with priorities in enhancing collaboration, project efficiency and sustainability. 

With an AI-powered centre, Infosys helps its clients around the world navigate their digital transformation with agility and scale. Its systems enable contractors to achieve project goals while also exploring a range of architectural innovations. Its solutions help with more informed decision-making to ensure the effective end-to-end management of a project.

7. Hexaware

Employees: 33,500
CEO: R. Srikrishna
Founded: 1990

As AI becomes more prominent in the construction sector, Hexaware provides tailored transformation services in order to modernise a company. The platform upgrades legacy systems and implements SAP solutions for construction firms, helping with AI-driven efficiency.

Hexaware offers a range of services and solutions to connect a company's IT ecosystem, including enterprise platform services which help with innovation and business outcomes. It also helps construction firms gain access to new possibilities through its data and analytics to ensure data-driven decisions lead to success.

6. HCLTech

Employees: 226,300
CEO: C. Vijayakumar
Founded: 1976

As a global technology company, HCLTech delivers industry-leading capabilities, utilising AI and cloud services in order to provide sector-based solutions. It is helping companies become more agile, smart and sustainable as demand for the sector shifts towards ESG prioritisation. 

It works to bring people and technology together, alongside the integration of sustainable operations. It has a presence in 60 countries, with plans to rapidly grow around the world, in order to provide access to latest technology expertise and business-oriented technology solutions.

5. GlobalLogic

Employees: 10,000
CEO: Srini Shankar
Founded: 2000

GlobalLogic is a partner delivering design, data and digital engineering solutions for some of the world's most innovative companies. It aims to positively impact the people and planet with cutting-edge technology and services. 

GlobalLogic's solutions are intended to enhance safety, modernise systems, boost productivity and optimise costs. Construction firms can gain access to a range of solutions, such as its integrated IoT platform, that will help with long-term competitive advantages, measurable outcomes and sustainability.

4. Deloitte

Employees: ~473,100
CEO: Joe Ucuzoglu
Founded: 1845

Through Deloitte's services, it aims to combine action with integrity for its clients, empowering them to undertake business transformation. It draws deep industry knowledge and experience to help clients identify deep-rooted issues before delivering end-to-end transformation specific to the industry needs.

Deloitte recognises the complexity of balancing the demands within construction, meeting safety, sustainability, affordability and supply requirements. Through its assets and global network, it helps construction companies digitally optimise their operations in order to thrive amongst competitors.

3. Cognizant

Employees: 351,600
CEO: Ravi Kumar S
Founded: 1994

Cognizant uses modern technologies to help bring construction companies into the present market, helping them stay ahead in the industry as it faces constant disruption. Through the use of technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), IoT, AI and digital twins, Cognizant works to enhance the project efficiency, safety and sustainability of its clients.

From design and construction, to maintenance and operation, Cognizant's solutions are applied across the entire lifecycle. It leverages its technology to produce improvements across a process.

2. Capgemini

Employees: 340,000
CEO: Aiman Ezzat
Founded: 1967

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, working to make organisations' goals real with AI, technology and people. With its deep industry insights and strong partner ecosystem, it delivers end-to-end services and solutions to its clients. Its capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations make it a well-informed partner for digital transformation.

Capgemini has often worked to reimagine infrastructure delivery, embrace digital innovation and create a resilient, future-proof foundation. As the construction industry faces fragmentation, shifting targets, ongoing regulation changes and limited resources, the sector requires a modernisation effort in order to remain resilient.

Capgemini's AI capabilities can offer the construction industry that transformation, with increased quality checking and enhanced design documentation, allowing for a more cohesive and resilient operation.

1. Accenture 

Employees: ~784,000
CEO: Julie Sweet
Founded: 1989​​​​​​

Accenture helps some of the world's leading businesses, governments and other organisations to optimise their operations, accelerate revenue growth and built their digital core. It serves clients in more than 120 countries, merging innovation and talent to offer the best solutions.

It blends its leadership in cloud capabilities, data and AI and strength in technology with global delivery capability, functional expertise and industry experience. By utilising technologies such as AI, data analytics, cloud computing, augmented and virtual reality, digital twins and robotics, Accenture transforms traditional engineering and construction.

Accenture works to reduce costs and delays across a project lifestyle by applying its digital engineering tools, relying on solutions such as AI to enhance generative design and layout optimisation, as well as an automated Bill of Materials generation. The use of digital twins creates virtual replicas of infrastructure in order to more accurately visualise the project.