Quartz™ - Decentralized

Solutions for Enterprises

and Ecosystems

Co-existence. Integration. Interoperability.

Quartz Gateway Quartz Smart Solutions

Quartz Ledgers Quartz DevKit

Overview
Blockchain or DLT has the potential to be one of the foundational technologies for tomorrow’s businesses
and in helping organizations across various industry domains in leveraging decentralized architectures for their
businesses. Organizations are already moving towards implementing blockchain technology at scale, in order
to drive digitization and automation of business processes. Blockchain is being harnessed today to improve
trust and transparency, foster collaboration, eliminate redundancies and reduce risk and time. It is being
explored in areas as varied as digital identities and registries, payments, settlements, information exchange,
trade, e-Governance, healthcare, Insurance, supply chain, provenance of commodities, music, art and
collectibles. The technology also has the power to bring organizations together by enabling ecosystems that
amplify the value delivered by each on a stand-alone basis.

Co-existence. Integration. Interoperability. Quartz Smart Solutions

Businesses are actively collaborating in the creation of connected Quartz Smart Solutions are comprehensive solutions with
ecosystems which can offer real-time, efficient transaction business and domain aware ‘Smart Contracts’ that help
processing, without the need for intervention from intermediaries. automate processing on the blockchain platform. A Smart
DLT with its ability to synchronize data across participating entities, contract is a ‘self-executable’ software that is stored on the
builds trust and encourages firms to collaborate in setting up such ledger and triggered either because of specific events
ecosystems. Firms are best served adopting a philosophy of occurring within it or from pre-configured rules that are
‘co-existence’, of combining the best of their existing solutions with programmed into these contracts. Participants can provide,
distributed technology, even while moving appropriate parts of the consume and instruct these transactions on the ledger based
business to decentralised solutions. This approach can help on their role and privileges. Smart Solutions are designed as a
organizations manage risk, save costs and roll out new services that combination of on-chain services deployed on Blockchain
can benefit from the decentralization which the technology offers. and off-chain services, residing on traditional databases or
files, thus ensuring that only business processes well suited
The introduction of blockchain into an ecosystem implies that it for blockchain are deployed on chain.
needs to ‘integrate’ all connecting systems or nodes. Such an
integration is needed, to not only enable a handshake of existing Some of the readily available Smart Solutions include
systems with the blockchain, but to also allow the ecosystem to Rewards Points, Contract Authoring, Settlements,
leverage standard messaging networks as applicable as a way to Announcements, Crypto Services, Loan Securitization,
manage the change and leverage existing data standards. Facultative Reinsurance, Cross Border Remittances, Markets
(for Tokenized assets), Contract Performance Monitoring,
Blockchain is an evolving technology with different platforms Resource Management and KYC.
competing to offer varied features, that address real-life issues
around the need to manage confidentiality, consensus and security.
‘Interoperability’ with multiple blockchain technologies, platforms
Quartz Ledgers
and ecosystems, and even non-blockchain networks will be a critical Quartz Ledgers comprise predefined, off-the-shelf ledger
element to ensure that organizations realize its true benefits. Data structures, data models, functions and APIs for business
exchange between various blockchain networks will be the first processes across industries. These are conceived as “building
step towards interoperability, which will further expand to blocks” on top of which solutions can be developed and
transaction flows. deployed seamlessly, thus enabling customers implement
decentralized solutions faster, in an agile manner, and at scale.

Quartz - The Smart Ledgers

Quartz DevKit
Quartz solutions are targeted at helping organizations across
industries to leverage blockchain meaningfully for their businesses. Quartz DevKit – an Intuitive, Low code smart contract
They comprise the following: development kit - is designed to help software developers
introduce blockchain into their business processes, and
Quartz DevKit – A Smart contract development kit that enables generate, compile, package, and deploy business code on the
the development of high quality code for different mainstream blockchain. The Quartz DevKit also comprises a standard set
Blockchain technologies of architectural features covering security, data privacy, access
controls, user management, audit trails and logging
Quartz Gateway & Command Center - To enable the seamless
framework. These are together represented as Quartz
integration of existing applications with blockchain
Foundation Components. Using DevKit’s pre-built
ecosystem(s)/network(s) and to facilitate their administration and
components for platform setup, administration and
governance
deployment, platform security authentication, encryption, and
Quartz Smart Solutions - ‘Designed for Blockchain’ business node as well as identity and user management, programmers
solutions can write smart contracts 40% faster. This enables
organizations in targeting faster launch timeframes on
Quartz Ledgers - Off-the-shelf ledger structures, functions and
blockchain. This can be further accelerated by combining
APIs for business processes across various domains, to enable
Quartz Smart Ledgers.
solutions to be quickly built around them
 Business Users Developers

Blockchain/Ecosystem
Administrators
#Digital

Quartz Command Center Quartz DevKit

Off-Chain
On-Chain Quartz Command Center
Custom Smart Quartz Smart Quartz
Contract Solutions Ledgers
Blockchain
GUI
Existing Systems Ecosystems
Quartz Gateway

Quartz Gateway
Messaging

Quartz Foundation Components Ripple

FIX Workflow Identity Security Audit Network

Off-Chain Blockchain Technologies (Choice of Platforms)

Data Industry/
c-rda Consortia
Messaging Network Ecosystems
Hyper Ledger R3 Corda Ethereum

The Art of the Possible - with Quartz

Quartz Gateway & Command Center

Quartz Gateway is a single, smart channel that can help integrate Agile Development and Deployment Framework: Quartz
applications with various blockchain platforms, industry networks DevKit along with the Quartz Foundation can provide an agile
and ecosystems using simple REST APIs. Using the Quartz framework for faster development and deployment of
Gateway, organizations can connect seamlessly to multiple business applications on a choice of Blockchain platforms.
blockchain platforms, thereby eliminating the need for large scale
and continuous changes to be made to their existing systems. It Leveraging these architectural principles and using Quartz, your
facilitates interoperability between blockchains and with other organization can:
messaging networks, and industry standards like ISO. It also Create decentralized architectures that can power business
supports orchestration of services across multiple blockchain ecosystems
platforms thus delivering agility and flexibility to organizations
operating diverse business processes. Automate business processes and functions with Smart
Contracts
The Command Center helps a blockchain sponsor, to administer
and maintain oversight of the entire blockchain network. It provides Eliminate data duplication and associated reconciliation issues
a comprehensive visual representation of all the activities taking Ensure data integrity with cryptographic encryption of data,
place within the blockchain ecosystem at any point in time, and making it immutable
allows the system administrator of the sponsor to make key
decisions when administering the network. Restrict access (private permissioned ledger) to ensure
greater security.
The Quartz Advantage Backed by awards from the Financial Technology Forum (Best
Co-existence and Interoperability: Quartz solutions are built Blockchain Breakthrough of the Year 2019) and recognition
on this philosophy and can integrate with third-party solutions from Analysts (Leader & STAR Performer in Everest PEAK
and various blockchain based systems and networks. Matrix), Quartz can help you operate at the forefront of
technology innovation and spearhead blockchain adoption
Integration: Quartz solutions are simple, lightweight and can successfully within your enterprise and beyond.
seamlessly bring together third-party solutions, legacy
applications and messaging middleware. They can therefore To know more about Quartz Blockchain Solutions, please write
reduce entry barriers to blockchain adoption by insulating to us at [email protected], or visit our website
connecting systems from the complexities of the underlying https://www.tcs.com/quartz-blockchain-solutions
blockchain.
 Quartz is a startup incubated in TCS to create innovative solutions that leverage the
emergence of blockchain technology
Quartz provides foundational technology, tools and business components for creating
distributed solutions for varied industries

To know more about Quartz, please write to us at [email protected], or visit our website
https://www.tcs.com/quartz-blockchain-solutions

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