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Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the world-leading information technology consulting, services, andbusiness process outsourcing organization that envisioned and pioneered the adoption of the flexible global business practices that today enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value. We commenced operations in 1968, when the IT services industry didnt exist as it does today. Now, with a presence in 34 countries across 6 continents, & a comprehensive range of services across diverse industries, we are one of the world's leading Information Technology companies. Six of the Fortune top 10 companies are among our valued customers. We are part of one of Asia's largest conglomerates - the TATA Group - which, with its interests in Energy, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Chemicals, Engineering & Materials, provides us with a grounded understanding of specific business challenges facing global companies.

Services and Solutions:

TCS is a leading IT services provider, with a wide breadth of services across the entire Information technology spectrum. To know more about how TCS can help you identify opportunities of improvement, build the roadmap to getting there & leverage technology to make it possible, read more about our services & solutions: Consulting. IT Services. BPO. IT Infrastructure Services. Engineering and Industrial Services. Product Based Solutions.

Culture:
At TCS we have an energetic and open workplace environment, and a collaborative culture that's based on teamwork. Pulling together is a central tenet of our work ethic. Energetic and full of enthusiasm, we enjoy our day (and night) at work. Life at TCS is a stimulating and exciting experience. Not only do our offices have the best infrastructure and technology, our colleagues have a knack of working hard and partying harder. If you'd like to spend your career in an extremely vibrant, stimulating and fun place, TCS is where you have to be. We take pride in adhering to the Tata 'code of conduct', which is in place across the entire Tata Group. The code is a means of upholding and strengthening the trust reposed on us by our various stakeholders, be it our customers or the wider society. TCS is an equal-opportunity employer and TCSers come from many nationalities and speak many languages. And, since we believe in celebrating everything under the sun, you will find us singing carols at Christmas and doing the dandiya dance at Navrathri with equal enthusiasm.

Products:

Our products are popular all over the world. They are known to be user-friendly, flexible, comprehensive, and trailblazers in their respective areas Banking. Accounting. Insurance. Financial Services. E Security. Manufacturing. Life Sciences and Healthcare. Tools. S-Governance. Energy & Utilities.

Experience certainty.(tcs slogan)

At TCS, we achieve real business results that allow you to transform, and not just maintain, your operations. Our IT services, business solutions and outsourcing bring you a level of certainty that no other competitor can match. You will experience your requirements being met on time, within budget and with high quality; greater efficiency and responsiveness to your business; and the ability to shift investment to strategic initiatives rather than tactical functions.

TCS Vision & Mission

...Purpose
To continually strive to achieve excellence - both on and off the job.

...Vision Statement
"TCS will be recognized and respected as professional, innovative, profitable information, and knowledge based logistics/services enterprise. TCS embeds internet based technologies into its internal operating structures and as business solutions for customers; with customer, employee and shareholder interests at the core of its operations; demonstrating a clear concern for ethical conduct and good corporate citizenship; with the objective of growing into a regional and global player, with emphasis on the Middle East, Europe and North America".

Vision: to be the 1 of the top 10 global companies by the year 2010. ...Mission Statement
"To direct all our organizational efforts at building upon the existing organizational strengths and brand recognition to achieve enhanced levels of profitable growth in the core business, and diversify into new areas that compliment and supplement the core business, with the diversification aimed at achieving excellence and industry leader status in the new areas. The TCS People will however be encouraged to be open to unconventional ideas and services and recognize new trends at very early stages"

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Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Type

Public (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS)

Industry

IT services IT consulting

Founded

1968

Headquarters

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Key people

Ratan Tata (Chairman) S Ramadorai (Vice Chairman) N Chandrasekaran (CEO & MD)

Products

TCS Bancs Digital Certification Products Healthcare Management Systems

Services

Outsourcing BPO Software Products

Revenue

30,028.92 crore (US$ 6.82 billion)(2010)

Operating income

8,305.73 crore (US$ 1.89 billion)(2010)

Profit

5,618 crore (US$ 1.28 billion)[1](2010)

Total assets

$6.112 billion (2010)

Total equity

(N/A)

Employees

174,417 (As on 30 September 2010)

Parent

Tata Group

Website

TCS.com

Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) is a Software services consulting company headquartered in Mumbai, India. TCS is the largest provider of information technology and business process outsourcing services in Asia.[2][3] TCS has offices in 42 countries with more than 142 branches across the globe. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange of India. TCS is a flagship subsidiary of one of India's largest and oldest conglomerate company, the Tata Group, which has interests in areas such as energy, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, chemicals, engineering, materials, government and healthcare.[4][5]

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1 History 2 Offices and development centres

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2.1 Indian branches 2.2 Global units 2.3 List of acquisitions

3 Innovation and R&D

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3.1 Tata Research Development and Design Center 3.2 Innovation

4 Employees 5 US Visa Program 6 References 7 External links

[edit]History
It began as the "Tata Computer Centre", for the company Tata Group whose main business was to provide computer services to other group companies. F C Kohli was the first general manager. JRD Tata was the first chairman, followed by Nani Palkhivala. One of TCS' first assignments was to provide punched card services to a sister concern,Tata Steel (then TISCO). It later bagged the country's first software project, the Inter-Branch Reconciliation System (IBRS) for the Central Bank of India[6]. It also provided bureau services to Unit Trust of India, thus becoming one of the first companies to offerBPO services. In the early 1970s, Tata Consultancy Services started exporting its services. The company pioneered the global delivery model for IT services with its first offshore client in 1974. TCS's first international order came from Burroughs, one of the first business computer manufacturers. TCS was assigned to write code for the Burroughs machines for several US-based clients[7]. This experience also helped TCS bag its first onsite project - the Institutional Group & Information Company (IGIC), a data centre for ten banks, which catered to two million customers in the US, assigned TCS the task of maintaining and upgrading its computer systems [8]. In 1981, TCS set up India's first software research and development center, the Tata Research Development and Design Center (TRDDC) [9]. The first client-dedicated offshore development center was set up for Compaq (then Tandem) in 1985.

In 1989, TCS delivered an electronic depository and trading system called SECOM for SIS SegaInterSettle, Switzerland. It was by far the most complex project undertaken by an Indian IT company. TCS followed this up with System X for the Canadian Depository System and also automated the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)[10]. TCS associated with a Swiss partner, TKS Teknosoft, which it later acquired[11]. In the early 1990s, the Indian IT outsourcing industry grew tremendously due to the Y2K bug and the launch of a unified European currency,Euro. TCS pioneered the factory model for Y2K conversion and developed software tools which automated the conversion process and enabled third-party developers and clients to make use of it[12]. In 1999, TCS saw outsourcing opportunity in E-Commerce and related solutions and set up its EBusiness division with ten people. By 2004, E-Business was contributing half a billion dollars (US) to TCS[13]. On 9 August 2004, TCS became a publicly listed company[14], much later than its rivals, Infosys, Wipro and Mahindra Satyam. During 2005, TCS ventured into a new area for an Indian IT services company - Bioinformatics[15] In 2008, the company went through an internal restructuring exercise that executives claim would bring about agility to the organization.[16].

[edit]Offices

and development centres

Tata Consultancy Services campus atLucknow, India

Tata Consultancy Services at Madhapur, Hyderabad

[edit]Indian

branches

TCS has development centres and/or regional offices in the following Indian cities: Ahmedabad,Bangalore, Baroda, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Roorkee, Delhi, Gandhinagar,Goa, Gurgaon, Guwaha ti, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai,Noida, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram,Chan digarh

[edit]Global

units

Africa: South Africa, Morocco[17] Asia (Outside India): Bahrain, China[18], Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE Australia: Australia Europe: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland,Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlan ds, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom North America: Canada, Mexico, USA South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru[19]

[edit]List

of acquisitions

The table below gives some details of TCS' key acquisitions

Number Acquisition Company Date

Business

Country

Value

Headcount

Remarks

Reference

8 October 2008

Citi Global Services Limited

Business Process India Outsourcing

US$ 505 mn

12472

TCS acquired key BFS domain knowledge. Expand product portfolio by acquiring rights to Quartz and ownership of Alpha and e-

[20]

November, TKS2006 Teknosoft

Banking Product

Switzerland

US$ 80.4 mn

115

[21]

portfolio, enhanced presence in Switzerland and France Entry into Latin America; Access to payment processing platform

November, Comicrom 2005

Banking BPO

Chile

US$ 23.7 mn

1257

[22]

February, 2006

Tata Infotech IT Services

India

[23]

October, 2005

FNS

Core Banking Product

Australia

US$ 26 mn

190

Acquired core banking solution product and access to 116 customers in 35 countries; FNS was an existing partner for TCS Acquired life and pension outsourcing business from Pearl Group; Domain knowledge of life and pension underwriting business Access to Australian clients Acquire expertise in

[24]

October, 2005

Pearl Group

Insurance

United Kingdom

US$ 94.7 mn

950

[25]

November TCS IT Services 2006 Management

Australia

US$ 13.0 mn

35

[26]

May 2004

Phoenix Global

BPO

India

US$ 13

350

[27]

Solutions

mn

insurance Acquire bluechip European customers like Ericsson, IKEA, Vattenfall and Hutchison; SITAR was TCS exclusive partner in Sweden and a non-exclusive partner in Norway. ASDC was a Singapore Airlines-TCS JV; Acquired Singapore Airlines as a major client

May 2005

Swedish Indian IT IT Services Resources AB (SITAR)

Sweden

US$ 4.8 mn

10

May 2004

Aviation Software Development IT Services Consultancy India (ASDC)

India

180

[28]

11

January 2004

Airline Financial Support BPO Services India (AFS)

India

US$ 5.1 mn

316

BPO expertise in Airline and Hospitality sector

[29]

12

October 2001

CMC Limited

IT Services

India

US$33.8m 3100 (51%)

Access to domestic capability; continues to be a separately run company.

[30]

[edit]Innovation [edit]Tata

and R&D

Research Development and Design Center

TCS established the first software research center in India, the Tata Research Development and Design Center, in Pune, India in 1981.TRDDC undertakes research in Software Engineering, Process Engineering and Systems Research.

Researchers at TRDDC also developed MasterCraft (now called TCS Code Generator Framework [31]) a Model Driven Development software that can automatically create code based on a model of a software, and rewrite the code based on the user's needs.[32] Research at TRDDC has also resulted in the development of Sujal, a low-cost water purifier that can be manufactured using locally available resources. TCS deployed thousands of these filters in the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster of 2004 as part of its relief activities[33]. This product has been marketed in India as Swach, a low cost water purifier[34].

[edit]Innovation
In 2007, TCS launched its Co-Innovation Network, a network of TCS Innovation Labs, startup alliances, University Research Departments, and venture capitalists.[35] In addition to TRDDC, TCS has 19 Innovation Labs based in three countries.[36]

TCS Innovation Lab, Convergence: Content management and delivery, convergence engines, networks such as 3G, WiMax, WiMesh, IP Testing for Quality of Service, IMS, OSS/BSS systems, and others.

TCS Innovation Lab, Delhi: Software Architectures, Software as a Service, natural language processing, text, data and process analytics, multimedia applications and graphics.

TCS Innovation Lab, Embedded Systems: Medical electronics, WiMAX, and WLAN technologies. TCS Innovation Lab, Hyderabad: 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, Mumbai: Speech and natural language processing, wireless systems and wireless applications.

TCS Innovation Lab, Insurance - Chennai: IT Optimization, Business Process Optimization, Customer Centricity Enablers, Enterprise Mobility, Telematics, Text Analytics, 2D Barcodes, Mashups, Innovation in Product Development and Management (PLM) for Insurance.

TCS Innovation Lab, Chennai: Infrastructure innovation, green computing, Web 2.0 and nextgeneration user interfaces.

TCS Innovation Lab, Peterborough, England: New-wave communications for the enterprises, utility computing and RFID (chips, tags, labels, readers and middleware).

TCS Innovation Lab: Performance Engineering, Mumbai: Performance management, high performance technology components, and others.

TCS Innovation Lab, Cincinnati, United States: Engineering and Manufacturing IT solutions.

Some of the assets created by TCS Innovation Labs are DBProdem, Jensor [37], Wanem [38], Scrutinet.

In 2008, the TCS Innovation Lab-developed product, mKrishi, won the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in the Wirelesscategory.[39]. mKrishi is a service that would enable India's farmers to receive useful data on an inexpensive mobile device.[40] TCS' Co-Innovation Network partners include Collabnet, Cassatt, MetricStream, academic institutions such as Stanford, MIT, various IITs, and venture capitalists like Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins.[41]

[edit]Employees
TCS is one of the largest private sector employers in India with a core strength in excess of 175,000 individuals.[42]. TCS has one of the lowest attrition rates in the Indian IT industry[43].

[edit]US

Visa Program

TCS was the fourth largest visa recipient in 2008, preceded by Infosys, Wipro and Satyam[44].

TCS to upgrade Navy satellite system

IDIQ contract covers Military Sealift Command Next Generation Wideband system

By David Hubler Nov 12, 2010

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. will provide satellite communications assistance to the Military Sealift Command under a $315 million indefinite, delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a guaranteed first-year minimum of $5 million. TCS was named the sole awardee on the IDIQ contract for the Military S ealift Commands Next Generation Wideband commercial satellite communications infrastructure and service. The Annapolis, Md., satellite services company will provide integrated systems and services to the Navys Military Sealift Command Next Generation Wideband communications that will result in a highly secure, turnkey solution using a proven commercial antenna system and comprehensive wideband satellite coverage, the company said in a statement today. TCS will provide MSC with overall contract program management; bandwidth and managed services; engineering and integration expertise; information assurance management; and installation, operation and maintenance services. The eight-year contract, which replaces the current MSC Afloat Bandwidth Efficient Satellite Transport commercial satellite communications infrastructure, runs through Nov. 2, 2018. The Defense Information Systems Agencys Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization is managing the contract activity and selected TCS in full and open competition.

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