Tata Consultancy Services

Company Profile
Tata Consultancy Services

Type Public
Founded 1968
Headquarters Mumbai, India
Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Board, S.
Key people
Ramadorai, CEO & MD
Industry Information Technology
Revenue
US $ 4.0 Billion (annualised)

Employees ~88100(Jan 2007)
Slogan BEYOND THE OBVIOUS
Website http://www.tcs.com
Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS Limited) is an Indian information technology,

consulting, services and business-process outsourcing organization which commenced
operations in 1968. As of 2006, it is Asia's largest IT services firm with annualised revenues
of over US $4 billion (estimated for FY 2006-07) and has the largest number of employees
among all the Indian IT companies with strength of over 78,000. [1] For fiscal year 2005-06, it
posted a net profit of Rs. 3,709 crore.
TCS is part of one of Asia's largest conglomerates and most respected groups, the Tata Group,
which has interests in areas such as energy, telecommunications, financial services,
chemicals, engineering and materials.
History
Tata Consultancy Services was established in 1968. Mr. Fakir Chand Kohli, an electrical
engineer, was brought in as the first General Manager of Tata Consultancy Services, from the
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.
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Business areas
TCS provides the following services:
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Application Development and Maintenance

Business Process Outsourcing
eBusiness
Engineering and Industrial Services
Infrastructure Services
Quality and IT Process Consulting
e-Security
to the following industry areas:

1. Banking
2. Energy and Utility
3. Financial Services
4. Life Sciences and Health Care
5. Insurance
6. Media and Entertainment
7. Manufacturing
8. Telecommunications
9. Retail and Consumer goods
10. Transportation
In 2005, TCS received an application maintenance project from ABN AMRO worth US$250
million, which is the second largest deal signed by an Indian IT Company. [2] 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 1, 2006. TCS was
featured extensively in the book 'Outsourcing to India: The Offshore Advantage' by British
writer Mark Kobayashi-Hillary.
Business units
Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC)
The Tata Research Development and Design Centre was established in 1981 as a division of
Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India's largest IT consulting organization. TRDDC is
today one of Indias premier R&D centres in software engineering and process engineering.
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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. With
expertise in process engineering, software engineering tools and technologies, advanced
techniques, and in systems engineering methodologies, TRDDC provides solutions within
TCS and for major clients. There is also an ongoing effort to integrate the products into the
Eclipse Integration Framework.
The process engineering group of TRDDC focuses on modelling and optimization of
industrial unit operations for steel and automotive sector. Successful implementation of this
approach has resulted in significant benefits i.e. efficiency enhancement, productivity
improvement, energy reduction and quality improvement for several industrial operations.
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.
Indian branches
Currently (2006), TCS has branches in the following Indian cities: Mumbai, Chennai,
Kolkata, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram,Lucknow, Ahmedabad,
Pune,Nagpur Jamshedpur, Gandhinagar, Coimbatore, Kochi, Gurgaon, NOIDA,
Bhubaneswar and Goa.
Global units
It has offices in about 36 countries including Argentina, USA, UK, Brazil, Canada, Chile,
China, Japan, Hungary, Germany, UAE, South Africa, Uruguay, Portugal, Spain, Singapore,
Australia, Luxembourg, Copenhagen, Norway, and France
Social initiatives
Maitree
Maitree is a social platform of all members of the Tata Consultancy Services Limited family,
which extends its activities "beyond the corporate". All TCS employees and their families are
members of Maitree. The aim of the organization is to create a network of interaction
between the corporate and the extended families and to add value to each others life in
various ways.
Maitree is trying to accomplish the goal of serving the society and give a better interactive
social life in three different ways: socialization within the community of associates and
spouses, easing relocation and serving the community.
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