Rohit Soni

History of Tata
Consultancy Services
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 Tata Consultancy Services
Limited
 (TCS) is a software services and consulting
company.
 The company is listed on the National
Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock
Exchange of India.
TCS became listed company on 9th August,
2004.
TCS is part of one of India's largest and
oldest conglomerates, the Tata Group.
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 History
Tata Consultancy Services was established
in the year 1968.
TCS is considered a pioneer in the Indian
IT industry .
It began as the "Tata Computer Centre",
a division of the Tata Group, whose main
business was to provide computer services
to other group companies.
F C Kohli was its first General Manager.
The legendary JRD Tata was its first
Chairman .
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 Work History
In the early 1970s, Tata Consultancy Services
started exporting its services.
 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
In 1981, TCS set up India's first software research
and development center, the Tata Research
Development and Design Center (TRDDC) .
The first client-dedicated offshore development
center was set up for Compaq (then Tandem) in
1985.
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Automated the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
(JSE ) in 1989.
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.
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On 9th August 2004, TCS became a
publicly listed company, much later than its
rivals, Infosys, Wipro and Satyam.

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 Branches
TCS has development centres and/or
regional offices in the following Indian
cities:-
Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Vadodara,
Bhubaneswar, Chennai (includes
Kanchipuram), Coimbatore, Delhi,
Gandhinagar, Goa, Gurgaon, Guwahati,
Hyderabad, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata,
Lucknow, Mumbai, Noida , Pune, Kanpur,
Thiruvananthapuram, Visakhapatnam.
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 Global Units
 Africa: South Africa, Morocco
Asia (outside India):- Bahrain, TCS China, Hong
Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi
Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan,
Thailand, UAE
Australia
Europe:- Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
North America:- Canada, Mexico, USA
South America:- Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay
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 Some details of Latest TCS key
acquisitions
1October 8, 2008 ‘ Citi Global Services
Limited ’ “Business Process Outsourcing”
India US$ 505 mn.
November, 2006 ‘ TKS-Teknosoft ’
“Banking Product” Switzerland US$ 80.4
mn.
November, 2005 ‘ Comicrom ’ “Banking
BPO” Chile US$ 23.7 mn.
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Founded :-1968
Headquarters :-TCS House, Raveline Street, Fort,
Mumbai - 400 001 India
Key people :-Ratan Tata, (Chairman of the Board, Tata
Group)
S Ramadorai, (CEO and Managing Director)
Jobhi Mahalingam, (Executive Director and CFO)
N Chandra, (Executive Director, COO, CEO & MD
Designate)
Phiroz Vandrewala,(Executive Director and Head,
Global Corporate Affairs)
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Ajoy Mukherjee, (Vice President and Head,
Global Human Resources)
Products :-TCS Bancs, Products, Services
:-Information Technology Consulting, IT
Services, Outsourcing, BPO, Software
Products
Revenue :-▲ US$ 6.015 billion (in FY 2008-
09)(Fiscal Year)
Net income :-▲ US$ 1.123 billion (in FY 2008-
09)
Employees :-143,000 (As on 1 April, 2009)
Website :- www.tcs.com
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