software companies in India

Tata Consultancy Services

Founded in 1968, TCS is one of India's largest corporate houses. It is also India's largest IT employer with a staff strength of 111,000 employees.

The company began as a division of the Tata Group, called the Tata Computer Centre. Its main business was to offer computer services to other group companies. Soon the company was spun off as Tata Consultancy Services after it realised the huge potential of the booming IT services.

The company posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 1,290.61 crore (Rs 12.90 billion) for the first quarter ended June 30, 2008, an increase of 7.3 per cent compared to the year-ago period.

Its annual sales worldwide stands at $5.7 billion for the fiscal year ending March 2008. During the year 2007-08,

TCS' consolidated revenues grew by 22 per cent to Rs 22,863 crore ($5.7 billion). S. Ramadorai, is the chief executive officer and managing director of TCS.

TCS is IDC-Dataquest IT best employer in IT services in 2007. TCS also topped DataQuest DQTop 20 list of IT service providers in 2007.

Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) service

, consulting and business solutions company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. TCS operates in 46 countries. It is a subsidiary of the Tata Group and is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the

 National Stock Exchange of India. TCS is the largest Indian company by market capitalization and is the

 largest India-based IT services company by 2013 revenues.TCS is now placed among the ‘Big 4’ most valuable  IT services brands worldwide In 2013, TCS is ranked 40th overall in the Forbes World's Most Innovative Companies  ranking, making it both the highest-ranked IT services company and the top Indian company. It is the world's

Tata Consultancy Services

Type

Public

Traded as

BSE: 532540

NSE: TCS

BSE SENSEX Constituent

CNX Nifty Constituent

Industry               IT services, IT consulting

Founded              1968

Founders             J.R.D Tata

Headquarters    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Area served       Worldwide

Key people         N. Chandrasekaran

(CEO & MD)

Services               IT, business consulting and outsourcing services

Revenue              US$ 14.44 billion (2013-14)

Operating income

 US$ 3.12 billion (2013-14)

Profit

 US$ 2.59 billion (2013-14)

Total assets

 US$ 54.58 billion (31-Mar-2013)[1]

Total equity

 US$ 7.66 billion (31-Mar-2013)[1]

Employees          305,431 (June 2014)

Parent

Tata Group

Subsidiaries        CMC Limited, TCS China, TRDDC, Computational Research Laboratories, TCS e-Serve Ltd.

Website               www.tcs.com

Service lines

TCS' services are currently organised into the following service lines (percentage of total TCS revenues in the 2012-13 fiscal year generated by each respective service line is shown in parentheses):

• Application development and maintenance (42.80%);
• Asset leverage solutions (2.70%);
• Assurance services (7.70%);
• Business process outsourcing (12.50%);
• Consulting (3.00%);
• Engineering and Industrial services (4.60%);
• Enterprise solutions (15.20%); and

IT infrastructure services (11.50%).

Locations

TCS has operations in the following locations:

India:  Ahmedabad,Bangalore, Baroda, Bhubaneswar,Chennai, Coimbatore, Patna, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Goa, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Bhopal , Indore, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, Pune and Trivandrum

Africa: South Africa, Morocco

Asia (excluding India): Bahrain, China, Israel, UAE, Hong kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand

Australia: Australia

Europe: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

North America: Canada, Mexico and United States.

South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay.