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Encyclopedia > Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Type Public BSE: 532540
Founded 1968
Headquarters Flag of India TCS House, Raveline Street, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001
Key people Ratan Tata, (Chairman of the Board, Tata Group)
S Ramadorai, (CEO & Managing Director)
K Ananthkrishnan, (CTO)
S Mahalingam, (Executive Director and CFO)
N Chandrasekaran, (Executive Director and COO)
Phiroz Vandrevala,(Executive Director and Head, Global Corporate Affairs)
Ajoyendra Mukherjee, (Vice President and Head, Global Human Resources)
Industry Software
Services Information technology services and solutions
Revenue $5.7 billion (in FY 2007-08)
Employees ~111,047 (As on March 31st, 2008)
Website [1]

Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is an Indian software services and consulting company. It is one of the world's largest providers of information technology and business process outsourcing services. As of 2007, it is Asia's largest information technology firm and has the largest number of employees among Indian IT companies with strength of over 110,000[1] employees in 47 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $5.7 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March 2008 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. The Bombay Stock Exchange The Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (Marathi:मुंबई शेयर बाजार) (formerly, The Stock Exchange, Mumbai; popularly called The Bombay Stock Exchange, or BSE) is the oldest stock exchange in Asia. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... , Bombay redirects here. ... Ratan Naval Tata (born December 28, 1937, in Mumbai) is the present Chairman of the Tata Group, Indias largest conglomerate established by earlier generations of his family. ... The Tata Group is Indias largest conglomerate company, with revenues in 2005-06 of Rs. ... Image:Ramadorai S.jpg Subramanium Ramadorai S. Ramadorai (ராமதுரை in his native language Tamil) is CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) During the past 30 years, S. Ramadorai has played an integral role in the international development of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). ... This article is about a term used in economics. ... For the tax agency in Ireland of the same name, see Revenue Commissioners. ... USD redirects here. ... A fiscal year or financial year is a 12-month period used for calculating annual (yearly) financial reports in businesses and other organizations. ... This article is about work. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years). ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Information and communication technology spending in 2005 Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. ... Business process outsourcing (BPO) contains the transmission of processes along with the associated operational activities and responsibilities, to a third party with at least a guaranteed equal service level and where the client contains a firm grip over the (activities of the) vendor for mutual long term success. ... The National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE), is a Mumbai-based stock exchange. ... The Bombay Stock Exchange The Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (Marathi:मुंबई शेयर बाजार) (formerly, The Stock Exchange, Mumbai; popularly called The Bombay Stock Exchange, or BSE) is the oldest stock exchange in Asia. ...


TCS is part of one of Asia's largest conglomerates, the Tata Group, which has interests in areas such as energy, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, chemicals, engineering and materials. Conglomerate is: A large, diversified company with a wide array of businesses; see Conglomerate (company), Holding company. ... The Tata Group is Indias largest conglomerate company, with revenues in 2005-06 of Rs. ...

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History

Tata Consultancy Services was established in the year 1968. It began as the "Tata Computer Centre", a division of the Tata Group, whose main business was to provide computer services to other group companies. However, the potential of computerization and computer services was realized early on, and an electrical engineer from the Tata Electric Companies, Fakir Chand Kohli, was brought in as the first General Manager. Soon after, the company was named Tata Consultancy Services. The Tata Group is Indias largest conglomerate company, with revenues in 2005-06 of Rs. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...


TCS's first software export project was undertaken in 1974 when it converted the Hospital Information System from Burroughs Medium Systems COBOL to Burroughs Small Systems COBOL. This project was carried out entirely in TCS Mumbai on the ICL 1903 Computer. In 1980, TCS and a sister Tata firm accounted for 63% of the Indian software industry exports, $4 million shared by 21 firms. In 1984, TCS set up an office in the Santacruz Export Processing Zone (SEEPZ) – Mumbai. William Seward Burroughs (1857-1898), US inventor William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), author and grandson of William Seward Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), American author of Tarzan fame The Burroughs Corporation began in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company in St. ... COBOL (pronounced //) is a Third-generation programming language, and one of the oldest programming languages still in active use. ... , Bombay redirects here. ...


The early 1990s saw a tremendous surge in TCS's business, which also resulted in a massive recruitment drive by the company. In early and mid-1990s, TCS re-invented itself to become a software products company. In the late 1990s, to accelerate its revenue growth, TCS decided to employ a three-pronged strategy – developing new products with high revenue earning potential, tapping domestic and other fast growing markets and focusing on inorganic growth through mergers & acquisitions. In late 1998, the company decided to concentrate on new revenue opportunities including Y2K and Euro conversion. E-business was a major area of focus in the late 1990s.


In 2004, TCS became a publicly listed company. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...


Offices and development centres

Indian branches

TCS has development centres and/or regional offices in the following Indian cities: Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Bhavnagar, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Jamshedpur, Gandhinagar, Coimbatore, Kochi, Gurgaon, NOIDA, Bhubaneswar, Nabadwip and Goa [2]. , Bombay redirects here. ... For the sport which developed into badminton, see Poona (sport). ... , For other uses, see Bangalore (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Hyderabad. ... , Bhavnagar (Gujarati: , Hindi: , ) is a city in the Indian state of Gujarat. ... Madras redirects here. ... , “Calcutta” redirects here. ... , For other uses, see Delhi (disambiguation). ... , Thiruvananthapuram   (Malayalam: തിരുവനന്തപുരം Tiruvanantapuraṁ), also known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. ... , Lucknow ( , Hindi: लखनऊ, Urdu: لکھنؤ, ) is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state of India. ... , Ahmedabad (Gujarati: , Hindi: अहमदाबाद ) is the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh-largest urban agglomeration in India, with a population of almost 51 lakhs (5. ... , Nāgpur   (Marathi: नागपुर) Third largest city in the western Indian state of Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune with a population of 2. ... , Jamsehdpur   (जमशेदपूर in Devanagari) is a city located in the state of Jharkand in India, founded by the late Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata. ... Gandhinagar   (Gujarati: ગાંધીનગર, Hindi: गाँधीनगर) is the capital of Gujarat State, India. ... , Coimbatore (Tamil: ), also known as Kovai (Tamil: ), is a major industrial city in India and the second largest city in the state of Tamil Nadu. ... Cochin redirects here. ... , Gurgaon   (Hindi: गुड़गांव) is a city in the northern Indian state of Haryana, and has a population of about 249,000 according to the 2001 national census [2]. Gurgaon is one of Delhis four major satellite cities and is therefore considered to be a part of the National Capital Region... For Greater Noida see Greater Noida , NOIDA is the acronym for New Okhla Industrial Development Area that is under the management of New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (also, NOIDA). ... , Bhubaneswar   (Oriya: ଭୁବେନଶ୍ବର, Hindi: भुवनेश्वर, in Sanskrit and Oriya/oDiA, The Lord of the Universe) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of state of Orissa, India. ... Nabadwip is a city and a municipality in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. ... For other uses, see Goa (disambiguation). ...


Global units

Africa: South Africa,Morocco A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...


Asia (outside India): China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, UAE For other uses, see Asia (disambiguation). ... UAE redirects here; for other uses of that term, see UAE (disambiguation) The United Arab Emirates is an oil-rich country situated in the south-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain. ...


Australia: Australia,


Europe: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ...


North America: Canada, Mexico, USA North American redirects here. ...


South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...


TCS Innovation Labs

TCS has research and development labs spanning across 5 countries for research and development of new domain solutions. Most of the labs are located in India.

  • TCS Innovation Lab, Convergence: Works on Content Management Systems, content delivery systems, convergence engines, networks such as 3G, WiMax, WiMesh, IP Testing for Quality of Service, IMS, OSS/BSS systems, and others.
  • TCS Innovation Lab, Delhi: Works on emerging technologies such as Software Architectures, Software as a Service, natural language processing, text, data and process analytics, multimedia applications and graphics.
  • TCS Innovation Lab, Embedded Systems: Focuses on medical electronics, WiMAX, and WLAN technologies.
  • TCS Innovation Lab, Hyderabad: Focuses on computational methods in life sciences, meta-genomics, systems biology, e-security, smart card-based applications, digital media protection, nano-biotechnology, quantitative finance.
  • TCS Innovation Lab: Media and Entertainment: Located in Burbank, California, this lab works on digital media distribution, digital asset management, theatrical distribution systems, contracts and rights management systems, ERP, data warehousing and application maintenance outsourcing
  • TCS Innovation Lab, Mumbai: Focuses on speech and natural language processing, wireless systems and wireless applications.
  • TCS Innovation Lab, Chennai: Works on infrastructure innovation, green computing, Web 2.0 and next-generation user interfaces.
  • TCS Innovation Lab, Peterborough, England: Focuses on new-wave communications for the enterprise such as browser based Web 2.0 technologies, utility computing and RFID (chips, tags, labels, readers and middleware).
  • TCS Innovation Lab: TRDDC (Tata Research Development and Design Centre), Pune

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Tata Research Development and Design Centre

The Tata Research Development and Design Centre, part of the TCS Innovation Labs network, was established in 1981 in Pune. It concerns itself with R&D in software engineering and process engineering. For the sport which developed into badminton, see Poona (sport). ... The phrase research and development (also R and D or, more often, R&D), according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, refers to creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use... Software engineering (SE) is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software. ... “Process engineering is about applying engineering approaches, techniques, and tools to the construction of Process Models. ...


Research and development work at TRDDC is focused in different groups, each specializing in a key area of work. Projects of an interdisciplinary nature are also carried out. TRDDC provides solutions within TCS and for major clients. There is also an ongoing effort to integrate its products into the Eclipse Integration Framework. Eclipse is an open-source software framework written primarily in Java. ...


The process engineering group of TRDDC focuses on modeling and optimization of industrial unit operations for steel and automotive sector.


In addition, TRDDC is also involved in the areas of language processing, formal methods, and research on artificial intelligence and decision support. AI redirects here. ... Decision support systems are a class of computerized information systems that support decision making activities. ...


In January 2007, TRDDC celebrated its silver jubilee at its headquarters in Pune. The Chief Guest was former president Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam [3]. A Silver Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 25th anniversary. ... The President of India (Hindi: Rashtrapati) is the head of state and first citizen of India and the Supreme Commander of the Indian armed forces. ... Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (Tamil: அ.ப.ஜ. அப்துல் கலாம்; Hindi: अवुल पकिर जैनुलाअबदीन अब्दुल कलाम; Urdu: ابو الفقیر زین العبدین عبدل کلام), born October 15, 1931, Tamil Nadu, India, usually referred to as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, is the President of India. ...


Expansion

The company continues to grow in multiple geographies such as Eastern Europe, Latin America and China, with a special focus on the North American and European markets.


Work for the government

TCS launched a mission-mode e-governance project, MCA-21, for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, and has created an automated solution for the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme that reduces waste and corruption. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...


TCS is a part of National Skills Registry (NSR), a centralized database of all employees of the IT services and BPO companies in India. The objective of NSR is to improve recruitment practices in IT and BPO industry, which will in turn help in maintaining India's global competitive advantage.


TCS has designed a new software to help the National Literacy Mission in its goal of eradicating illiteracy in India. The software is geared towards letting illiterate adults learn to read a language by words instead of alphabets and turn them into functional literates who can at least read simple newspaper headlines, signboards, directions etc. [4]


Competitors

Alongwith global giants like IBM and Accenture, TCS is a joint contractor in the ABN Amro deal, one of the biggest outsourcing deals in Europe worth €1.8bn ($2.2bn).[5] ABN AMRO (Euronext: AAB, NYSE: ABN) was in the period of 1991 till 2007 one of the largest banks in Europe and had operations in about 63 countries around the world. ...


Current major competitors of TCS include other services firms such as Infosys, Wipro Technologies, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Accenture, IBM, Satyam, HCL Technologies, Siemens IT Solutions and Services etc. Infosys Software Development Center in Pune. ... Wipro Tech (NYSE: WIT) is an information technology service company established in India in 1980. ... Cognizant redirects here. ... Accenture (NYSE: ACN, ISIN: BMG1150G1116) is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. ... For other uses, see IBM (disambiguation) and Big Blue. ... Satyam Computer Services Ltd. ... HCL Technologies is one of the leading global technology and IT enterprises that offers product engineering, technology and application services, BPO, infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems integration, and distribution of technology and telecom products in India. ... Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS) is a service provider which is part of Siemens AG headquartered in Munich, Germany It which provides outsourcing services for many companies such as 3Com, Coca Cola, EMC2, and Microsoft. ...


Global presence

TCS has set up nearshore centres in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, regional development centres in Hungary, Uruguay and Brazil and a global development centre in China, in addition to India. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...


In 2006, Tata acquired Chile's Comicrom S.A., Australia's Financial Network Services (Holdings) Pty Ltd, (FNS) and Sweden's Indian IT Resources AB (SITAR) through subsidiaries.


The Company has set up two subsidiaries, viz. TCS FNS Pty Limited in Australia and Diligenta Limited in the UK. It has also set up other subsidiaries such as Portugal Unipessoal Limitada in Portugal, Tata Consultancy Services Luxembourg S.A. in Luxembourg and Tata Consultancy Service Chile Limited in Chile. The Company has 49 subsidiaries as on March 31, 2006. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent...


In March 2006, the Company, through its subsidiary Diligenta Limited acquired, on a going concern basis certain businesses of Pearl Group Services Limited. The acquisition included specified insurance contracts and claim administration business and assets including goodwill and know-how.


The Company has entered into a joint venture agreement with the Intelenet Global Services Ltd. For the GM deal, TCS is tying up with EDS to bid for parts of the business. A joint venture (often abbreviated JV) is an entity formed between two or more parties to undertake economic activity together. ... General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, is a multinational corporation headquartered in the United States and has been the worlds largest and most dominant automaker since 1931 till the second half of 2007, surpassed by Toyota; as well as the global industry sales leader for 77 years. ... Electronic Data Systems (EDS) (NYSE: EDS, LSE: EDC) is a global business and technology services company that defined the outsourcing business when it was established in 1962 by Ross Perot. ...


In February, 2007, TCS kicked off a joint venture in China with Microsoft and three Chinese entities.[6]


Layoffs

In 2008, due to growing concerns about a strengthening rupee and an impending recession, TCS cut performance-linked pay for its workers, and asked 500 of its workers to leave after poor performance appraisals.[7] [8] “INR” redirects here. ...


References

  1. ^ TCS employee strength touched 100,000- Corporate Trends-News By Company-News-The Economic Times
  2. ^ India - Office Locations
  3. ^ TRDDC honoured by President Kalam's visit
  4. ^ TCS's war against illiteracy - Express Computer Online
  5. ^ ABN Amro Deal
  6. ^ TCS could be a major force in China
  7. ^ Tata Consultancy, IBM Dismissing Workers In India
  8. ^ Indian IT prepares for a US recession

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Elpida Memory, Inc. ... Fairchild Semiconductor introduced the first commercially available integrated circuit (although at almost the same time as one from Texas Instruments), and would go on to become one of the major players in the evolution of Silicon Valley in the 1960s. ... Freescale sign Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. ... Skyworks Solutions, Inc. ... Hynix Semiconductor Inc. ... For the raceway, see Infineon Raceway. ... Intel redirects here. ... Micron Technology (Micron) NYSE: MU is a multinational company based in Boise, Idaho, USA, best known for producing many forms of semiconductor devices. ... Categories: Electronics companies of the United States | Companies based in California | Corporation stubs ... The American multinational Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) (pronounced ) specializes in the manufacture of graphics-processor technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and handheld devices. ... For other uses of NXP, see NXP (disambiguation). ... 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VIA Technologies logo VIA Technologies is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory, and is part of the Formosa Plastics Group. ... Software redirects here. ... Activision Blizzard, Inc. ... Adobe Systems (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: ) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Adobe was founded in December 1982[1] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell... CA, Inc. ... Electronic Arts (EA) (NASDAQ: ERTS) is an American developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of computer and video games. ... Intuit Inc. ... McAfee, Inc. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... For the video game system, see Nintendo Entertainment System. ... 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Symantec Corporation NASDAQ: SYMC, founded in 1982, is an international corporation which sells computer software, particularly in the realms of security and information management. ... Take Two redirects here. ... Ubisoft Entertainment (formerly Ubi Soft) is a computer and video game publisher and developer with headquarters in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. ... Copy of the original phone of Alexander Graham Bell at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris Telecommunication is the assisted transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ... For other uses, see 3 (disambiguation). ... América Móvil (NYSE: AMX, BMV: AMX, NASDAQ: AMOV) is the largest mobile network operator in Germano America and Latin America and the largest corporation in Latin America. ... This article is about the current AT&T. For the 1885-2005 company, see American Telephone & Telegraph. ... For the information technology, see Airtel (FBI). ... Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (known as BSNL, India Communications Corporation Limited) is a public sector communications company in India. ... BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc) which trades as BT (pronounced Bee tee) (also previously as British Telecom and is still commonly known as such amongst the general public) is the privatised UK state telecommunications operator. ... For other uses, see Cablevision (disambiguation). ... Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is the largest cable television company and the second largest Internet service provider in the United States. ... DTAG corporate headquarters, Bonn Deutsche Telekom AG (ISIN: DE0005557508, FWB: DTE, NYSE: DT, LSE: DEU, TYO: 9496) (English translation: German Telecom) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... France Télécom (Euronext: FTE, NYSE: FTE) (often spelled France Telecom, without the accents, in non-French text) is the main telecommunication company in France. ... KPN (in full Koninklijke KPN N.V., Royal KPN NV) (NYSE: KPN) is a Dutch fixed-line and mobile telecommunications company, including both 2G and 3G mobile operations. ... Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (日本電信電話 Nippon Denshin Denwa) is a telephone company that dominates the telecommunication market in Japan. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... RCN Corporation, (NASDAQ: RCNI), founded in 1997 and based in Herndon, Virginia, is the first and largest American facilities-based competitive provider of bundled telephone, cable television and high speed Internet service delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to consumers in the Boston, New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Washington... Rogers Communications Inc. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the US. With 55 million subscribers, Sprint Nextel operates the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States (based on total wireless customers), behind AT&T and Verizon Wireless. ... Swisscom AG is the leading telephone company in Switzerland. ... Telecom Italia is formerly a partially state-owned Italian telco. ... Telefónica, S.A., (IBEX-35:TEF, Euronext: TEF, NYSE: TEF, LSE: TDE, FWB: TEF, TYO: 9481) is a Spanish telecommunications company. ... Teléfonos de México S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: TMX), better known as Telmex, is a Mexican telecommunications company that provides telecommunication products and services in Mexico and in many parts of Latin America, such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and even in the United States. ... 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