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About The Company
Tata Consultancy Services
Ltd. started in 1968. Mr.F.C Kohli who is
presently the Deputy
Chairman was entrusted with the job of steering
TCS. The early days marked TCS responsibility in
managing the punch card operations of TISCO. The
company, which was into management consultancy from day
one, soon felt the need to provide solutions to its
clients as well. TCS was the first Indian company to
make forays into the US market with clients ranging from
IBM, American Express, Sega
etc. TCS is presently the top software services
firm in Asia.
During the
Y2K buildup,
TCS had setup a Y2K
factory in Chennai as a short-term strategy.
Now, with E-business being the
buzzword, the factory is developing solutions for the
dotcom industries. Today, about 90 percent of TCS'
revenue comes from consulting, while the
rest from products. TCS has
great training facilities. In addition to training
around 5 percent of the revenue is spent upon its
R&D centres like the Tata Research Design and
Development Centre at Pune, along with a host of other
centres at Mumbai and Hyderabad.
It
benchmarked its quality standing, invested heavily in
software engineering practices and built intellectual
property-in terms of patents, code
and branded
products. At the same time, it expanded its
relationships with technology partners and
organisations, increased linkages with academic
institutions and incubated technologies and
ideas of people within TCS and outside. TCS has already
patented 12
E-Commerce solution product packages and has
filed six more
applications for patent licences.
Over $25
million were spent on enhancing hardware and software
infrastructure. The company now has 72 offices worldwide.
As many as seven centres were assessed at SEI CMM Level 5 last
year(3.4 mistakes in a million opportunities). These
include Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Calcutta, Hyderabad
and Lucknow. Several business and R&D relationship
with global firms like
IBM, General Electric, Unigraphics Solutions
have been made.
The present
Managing Director
of the company is Mr. S. Ramadorai. The
company's strength is about 14,000.
For more information about
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