Tata Consultancy Services

TCS commenced operations in 1968, when the IT services industry did not exist as it does today. Now, with a presence in 47 countries across 5 continents and a comprehensive range of services across diverse industries, TCS is one of the world's leading Information Technology companies with Revenues of $1.6 Billion in 2003-04. Seven of the Fortune Top 10 companies are among its customers.

TCS is part of one of Asia's largest conglomerates - the TATA Group - which has interests in Energy, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Chemicals and Engineering & Materials.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(TCS) is one of the prominent software - consultancy firms ,from India , established way back in 1968 before India knew what computers and computer science meant.

If Tata group is some thing synonymous to Hughes or GE (a conglomerate with vested interests in diverse spheres ranging form automobiles to cooking salt) for Indian context; thenTCS is some thing of IBM. The move was considered bold, because those were the days when import tariff and other added excise duties, which rose the cost of Personal Computer by 100-200%.

TCS provides high-end solutions to major corporations including IBM, Microsoft, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Tandem-Compaq, American Express, Capital Bank, Target Corporation, Citibank, Qwest, Lucent Technologies, Ericsson and Nortel. TCS is also involved in a technical association with Ferrari for F-1

Has presence in 32 countries across 5 continents, & a comprehensive range of services across diverse industries, Is one of the world's leading Information Technology companies. Six of the Fortune Top 10 companies are served by TCS

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CEO and others

Mr. S Ramadorai, CEO and MD, TCS has been selected as Business India's Businessman of the year 2004. In December 2004 he was awarded IT Man Of the Year by DataQuest IT.

During 2003, Subramaniam Ramadorai received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indore Management Association, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Fellowship of the Institute of Management Consultants of India. The Bombay Management Association has also honoured him with CNBC Asia Pacific’s prestigious ‘Asia Business Leader of the Year’ Award, as well as the ‘Management Man of the Year’ award. He was named in June 2002, by Consulting Magazine (USA) as being among the Top 25 Most Influential Consultants in the world, the only Indian CEO on the list. He has been honored with the position of ' IT Advisor to Qingdao City', People's Republic of China.
Ramadorai holds a Bachelors degree in Physics from Delhi University, India, a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of California - UCLA, USA. In 1993, Ramadorai took the Senior Executive Development Program at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

He is expected to be succeeded by V.P. N.ChandraSekharan (as the taken by word in media , may not be affirmed !! ,should wait untill the actual event happens)

TRDDC

Tata Research Development and Design Center

TCS earns revenue by handling projects in Banking and Insurance Domains, there are many other facets of this company which you can check out at their official website,

Unlike the other TCS offices, TRDDC distinguishes itself as the center for R&D work , mostly for Internal use of TCS , the products developed here are meant to serve / ease the software product life-cycle. The work in this aspect began way back. Their starring product line includes Modelling and Code Generation tools and now they are going for the emerging standards (OMG, MOF compliance) in this relatively naïve area of computer science. Scientists from this organization also take active part in the formulation of these standards.

Active work is going on to integrate the products into the widely popular
Eclipse Integration Framework..There is a conceptual similarity found between Eclipse foundation and TRDDC,Other than afore mentioned spheres ,Language Processing ,Formal Methods ,Artificial Intelligence / Decision Support are well researched. It is interesting to note the center boasts expertise in Process R&D , Business Logic ,Materials & Mineral Processing too.

On account of the ongoing diversification effort, the other centers situated in India have also began R&D facilities, The center in Hyderabad carries out work on Security related issues,

Influence on Environment

Being the first also means making the pathways or building bridges and let others walk over them. When Indian IT sector waking up, there was someone there with a mug of coffee, wishing "Good Morning" .Not making a mention of the competitors would be the most belligerent thing to do. Infosys, Wipro, CTS, Satyam; there are many around the corner, but there is something they all share other than market:The People .TCS had been the first one and hence all the companies share a good number of ex-TCSers in various positions. Infosys and Wipro also a had a head start ,(in 1980's still there was little competition).

Premji of Wipro a visionary who went beyond his family business of selling vegetable oils, and later turned out to be the richest man in India.GE would later enter into a strategically partnership with Wipro

Narayana Murthy and his friends founded Infosys, a legendary effort worth studying, comming from a middle class background, with little advantage to his end, only aided with intellectual capital ventured into uncharted waters, what was going to be called as Knowledge Industry later, he was going to be a icon of the middle class, whose sons and daughters who received paychecks equaling their annual earnings (my favorite, he is more close to ordinary Indians with no financial background to aid him).

Others were late to join the party, but reaped hay when the boom was up, many of them were overrated and later when slump set in, they had to face the consequences, only the fittest survived and emerged even more stronger.(TCS wasn't listed back then)

Attrition is something highly spoken of , TCS though has the largest workforce ,has the minimal attrition according to a study carried out

Globalization or Glocalization

India opened itself from the shackles of license raj; towards Liberalization, open regime, accountability, reforms; the air was filled with the buzzwords, the elephant was on roll, There was something called cost arbitrage which would later cause a flurry of things about Outsourcing.

Open markets and new opportunities gave a new insight. New practices were learnt, sixsigma, CMM, PCMM; if you look at Indian IT companies most of them have centers with CMM level certifications. TCS was the first to get certified with a level 5 (highest) at organization level.

India became back-office of the world, The image makeover was done for Knowledge Industry, (Still manufacturing industry is lagging).So did the revenues all three major giants were to surpass $1 billion in revenue by 2004 ,

All is not creamy curd, there is cockroach too; TCS is the first company to be affected by the anti-outsourcing campaign, A court in America ruled out outsourcing federal projects, 2004 also saw US presidential elections, where the candidates made politically correct(read watch your back) statements,
The fact is people go after money, more true in a competitive world ,so outsourcing became something which we have to live with

The story goes on...

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A personal note from the author aboutBeing bold---a bit of self exalt

moved to Talk section

08:26, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

External links

• TCS website

• TRDDC