Tata Consultancy Services Limited s a software services and consulting company. It is Asia's largest provider of information technology and business process outsourcing services. 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.

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 and was followed by luminaries such as Nani Palkhivala.

One of TCS' first assignments was to provide punch 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. It also provided bureau services to Unit Trust of India, thus becoming one of the first companies to offer BPO services.
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.

In 1999, TCS saw outsourcing opportunity in E-Commerce and related solutions and set up its E-Business division with ten people. By 2004, E-Business was contributing half a billion dollars (US) to TCS.
On 9th August 2004, TCS became a publicly listed company, much later than its rivals, Infosys, Wipro and Satyam.

Offices and development centres

Indian 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.

Global units

Africa: South Africa, Morocco

Asia (outside India): Bahrain, TCS China^[16], 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, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

North America: Canada, Mexico, USA

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

TCS at a Glance:

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) Ajoy Mukherjee, (Vice President and Head, Global Human Resources) K Anantha Krishnan, (Vice President and Chief Technology Officer)
Products	TCS Bancs, Digital Certification Products, Healthcare Management Systems
Services	Information Technology Consulting, IT Services, Outsourcing, BPO, Software Products
Revenue	▲ US$ 6.015 billion (in FY 2008-09)
Net income	▲ US$ 1.123 billion (in FY 2008-09)
Employees	143,000 (As on 1 April, 2009)
Website	http://www.tcs.com

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