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Tata Consultancy Services

(BSE: TCS)

India

Tata Consulting Services (TCS) is still India's top tech player, and will continue to be so for a while. The company has become aggressive in the past year in doing deals and expanding its geographic reach. In the past six months, TCS has signed several large deals in tech services, the largest being an $847 million, 12-year deal with Britain's Pearl Group for insurance back-office work. It's even doing better than its competitors in its standard service offerings of systems integration at the bottom end and consulting at the high end. And it's growing its employee base. This year alone, TCS will add more than 23,000 new recruits in India and abroad to its existing workforce of 63,000. By then, nearly 6% of TCS's employees will be overseas. And its focus this year will be expanding deeper into Latin America and China. TCS already has over 169 offices worldwide, in 35 countries.

Company Info

2005 Rank

Not Ranked

Sales*
($ Millions)

2,796.1

Sales Growth
(over prev. year)

23 %

Profits*
($ Millions)

623.0

Return on Equity

49.4 %

Total Return on Sales (12-mo.)

34.7

Share Price
As of 5/31/06

38.52

CURRENT
MARKET INFO

BSE: TCS

No. of Employees

Industry Services
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*Trailing 12 months
Stock price data as of 5/31/06
DATA: Standard & Poor's Compustat

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Company Snapshot

Tata Consultancy Services provides information technology consulting services and software solutions worldwide. Its primary service offerings include consulting, IT services, asset based solutions, IT infrastructure, engineering and industrial services, and business process outsourcing services. The company's IT services include application development and maintenance services, including migration and re-engineering, e-commerce and Internet services, testing services, architecture and technology consulting, and systems integration, as well as software implementation. Its IT infrastructure services include outsourcing of IT networks, integration, hardware support and installation, and infrastructure management. The engineering and industrial services include various engineering services, embedded software, research and development services for new product development; and product lifecycle management, including product design, simulation, engineering drafting, computer-aided engineering design and manufacturing, product data management, and customization of engineering software. The company offers transaction-based IT enabled services, including inbound call centers, back-office support, engineering services, and database services. TCS offers services to the financial services, banking, insurance, telecom, manufacturing, media and entertainment, retail and consumer goods, transportation, health-care and life sciences, and energy and utilities industries. The company has strategic alliances with DataSynapse, Aegis Analytical, Adobe Systems, Compaq, Microsoft, Mercury Interactive, Web Health Systems, Portal Software, InternetSpeech, i2 Technologies, IBM, Jataayu Software, Redingtion India, Trivnet, Novell, and Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology. It also has a joint venture with State Bank of India. TCS was established in 1968 and is based in Bombay, India.


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S. Ramadorai

S. Ramadorai

Chief Executive Officer

Subramanian Ramadorai serves as chief executive officer of Tata Consultancy Services and has been its managing director since August, 2004. Ramadorai is chairman of Tata Technologies. He has been non-executive chairman of the board and non-executive director of CMC since October, 2004. He serves as vice-chairman of Tata Elxsi (India). He has been a director of CMC since October, 2001. He has been a director of Tata Consultancy Services since May, 2004. He has been a non-executive and independent director of Hindustan Lever since May, 2002. Ramadorai serves as an independent director of Nicholas Piramal India. He is on the board of several leading companies, including Tata Industries, Tata Internet Services, the Engineering Analysis Center of Excellence (a joint venture with General Electric), and Innova TV (USA). He served as a non-executive director of Tata InfoTech until May, 2004. Ramadorai serves as member of the advisory committee of the National Stock Exchange of India. Ramadorai holds a bachelor's degree in physics from Delhi University, a bachelor's of engineering in electronics and telecommunications from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a master's degree in computer science from the University of California. Ramadorai took the senior executive development program at MIT's Sloan School of Management in 1993.



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