Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS Limited) is an Indian information technology, consulting, services and business-process outsourcing organization which commenced operations in 1968. It is currently Asia’s largest IT services firm with revenues of US $2.97 Billion for Financial Year 2005-2006. As of 2006 it has the largest number of employees among all the Indian IT companies (over 60,000). It has posted a net profit of Rs. 3,709 crore for the Financial Year 2005-2006. Ever since its inception, TCSL has pioneered the offshore delivery model for IT services:

Type:     Public
Founded:     1968
Headquarters:     Mumbai, India
Key people:     Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Board, S Ramadorai, CEO & MD
Industry:     Information Technology
Products:     See complete products listing.
Revenue:     US $ 2.97 Billion
Employees:     more than 70,000 (2006 August)
Website:     http://www.tcs.com

Maitree is the social service wing of TCSL.

TCS is part of one of Asia’s largest conglomerates - the Tata Group - which has interests in Energy, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Chemicals, Engineering & Materials to name a few.

TCS was conferred the best IT employer award by Hewitt Associates and best place to work award by Dataquest. CEO Ramadorai got the Businessman of the Year award from Business India in 2004. He has also been conferred the prestigious Padma Bhushan by the Government of India recently.

History

Tata Consultancy Services was established in 1968. Mr. Fakir Chand Kohli, an accomplished Power Engineer, was brought in as the first General Manager of Tata Consultancy Services, from the erstwhile Tata Electric Companies (and now The Tata Power Company Limited), where he was a Deputy General Manager.

TCS’ 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. A team of more than 12 people delivered this project to their first US based customer, and thus the Indian Software Export Industry was born.

Business areas

TCS serves the following industry and business areas:

1. Banking
2. Business Process Outsourcing
3. eBusiness
4. Engineering and Industrial Services
5. Energy and Utilities
6. Financial Services
7. Life Sciences and Health Care
8. Infrastructure Services
9. Insurance
10. Media and Entertainment
11. Manufacturing
12. Quality and IT Process Consulting
13. Telecom
14. Retail and Consumer goods
15. Security
16. Energy and Utility
17. Transportation

TCS has recently bagged an application maintenance project from ABN AMRO worth US$250 million, which is the largest deal signed by an Indian IT Company.TCS has also successfully implemented E-governance projects in various states like Andhra Pradesh. TCS has also won several multi million dollar deal in the domestic market . One example is the $250 Mn deal with Tata Teleservices. The company has recently done some strategic acquisitions like FNS,Tata Infotech & Comicrom which will boost its offerings to the market.The integration with Tata Infotech was completed on February 1st.

Prominent business units

Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC)

The TRDDC unit is the centre for R&D work, mostly for Internal use of TCS. The products developed are focussed on the software development life-cycle, and include Modelling and Code Generation tools.

Active work is going on to integrate the products into the popular Eclipse Integration Framework.

In addition, TRDDC is also involved in the areas of language processing, formal methods, and research on Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support.

On account of the ongoing diversification effort, the other centres situated in India have also begun R&D facilities; the centre in Hyderabad is called Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) carries out work on e-Security related issues and bioinformatics.

* TRDDC_Software_Tools- Contains a brief description of the tools

Indian branches

Currently (2006), TCS has branches in the following Indian cities: Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram,Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Pune, Jamshedpur, Gandhinagar, Coimbatore, Kochi, Gurgaon, NOIDA and Bhubaneswar.

Global Units

It has offices in about 35 countries including Argentina, USA, UK, Brazil, China, Japan, Hungary, Germany, UAE, South Africa, Uruguay, Portugal, Spain, Singapore, Australia and France