Tatas' best bet would be to find an insider who understands the systems, say headhunters
The company said one of the projects will be finalised this financial year.
To begin with, there would be the immediate integration of various technology stacks. This would create more business for global consulting and IT services entities such as KPMG, PwC, EY, Accenture and IBM, among others. Indian service providers - Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro, for instance - would also cash in.
India's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services on Wednesday said it won a contract from Eli Lilly to provide various drug development services to the US pharma firm.
While about 8,000 people are in the long list of invitees, the select list features 506 A-listers, including prominent politicians, leading industrialists, top film stars, sportspersons, diplomats, judges and high priests.
State Bank of India partnered GE Capital in 1998 for its credit card business.
S Ramadorai, Tata Consultancy Services CEO, been selected the Business India Businessman of the Year 2004.
India's largest IT services player Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) saw its $2 billion, 10-year deal with Transamerica Life Insurance Company come to an end even before the period was over. Transamerica is the subsidiary of American arm of Dutch insurer Aegon NV. This is not the first time such a long-term deal has been called off. Earlier this year, UK's National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), ended a $1.8-billion deal with French IT services player Atos.
Tata Consultancy Services has retained its position as the number one software services exporter (excluding ITeS and BPO) followed by Infosys and Wipro in the Nasscom's Top 20 software exporter list.
Construction will commence in 2011-12 and be completed in three years. TCS is the second IT firm to set up such a facility after Bengaluru-based Infosys Technologies inaugurated its campus in Mysore last year.
During the afternoon trade, TCS commanded a market value of over Rs 2,38,223 crore (Rs 2,382.23 billion), the highest for any listed company in India.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is set to secure a $2 billion deal from Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) to roll out its 4G and 5G services across the country. However, the final approvals from the publicly-owned telco may take a couple of months, sources in the know said. As part of the deal, TCS will develop 4G core and Radio Access Network (RAN) technology for BSNL's telecom services.
TCS's chief operating officer and executive director, N Chandrasekaran, tells Shivani Shinde he'll focus on cost efficiency.
Expanding its presence in the US, India's IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has opened a new facility here which was welcomed by the US lawmakers and the Californian government.
IT major Tata Consultancy Services plans to hire 37,000 professionals for its domestic and overseas markets through campus placements in the next fiscal.
IT major Tata Consultancy Services plans to hire 37,000 professionals for its domestic and overseas markets through campus placements in the next fiscal.
"We are seeing an uptick. There is a lot more clarity and certainty about projects and decision cycles. I'm quite positive and companies are wanting to adopt technologies and are making decisions," TCS chief executive officer and managing director N Chandrasekaran said on the sidelines of World Economic Forum on India in Gurgaon.
TCS posted 20 per cent growth in revenues at Rs 5,012 crore (Rs 50.12 billion or $1.075 billion) for the year ending March 31, 2003 compared to Rs 4,187 crore (Rs 41.87 billion) in the previous fiscal.\n\n
Tata Consultancy Services and State Bank of India on Monday launched a joint venture to provide advanced technology solutions and world-class domain consulting for the banking and financial services sector.
Professional services firm Ernst & Young bagged the contract from UIDAI to become consulting partner for the project.
The move will induce more transparency and simultaneously rearticulate the company's brand strategy with an estimated Rs 50 crore (Rs 500 million) annual campaign.
India's largest information technology (IT) services company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), may hire close to 11,000 employees in the January-March 2010 quarter. Close to 8,300 staffers are expected to be recruited from campuses, while 3,000 would be laterals or experienced hands.
India and China together account for 32 of the 50 companies in Forbes' sixth annual 'Asia's Fabulous 50 listed companies'.
A team of engineers at India's largest IT services provider firm. Tata Consultancy Services, was working on a project for an important client. While it was co-ordinating work from three geographical units - Europe, South America and India - it was finding it difficult to collaborate through telephone or other voice means as there were language and pronunciation hurdles.
In an interview to Shivani Shinde, Chandrasekaran spoke on the general business environment, European crisis and growing concerns on staff attrition.
Kotak Mahindra Bank was the biggest loser in the Sensex pack, sliding 2.68 per cent, followed by Tech Mahindra, Mahindra & Mahindra, Axis Bank, Hindustan Unilever, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, Nestle and Titan. In contrast, NTPC, Power Grid, Larsen & Toubro, HDFC, Reliance and HDFC Bank were the gainers.
Equity benchmark index Sensex buckled under selling pressure for the second straight session to close below the 65k mark on Friday, as investors offloaded IT, teck and metal stocks amid a bearish global trend. Besides, fresh foreign fund outflows also hit investor sentiments, traders said. In a volatile trade, the 30-share BSE Sensex declined 202.36 points or 0.31 per cent to settle at 64,948.66.
The US had initiated investigation against Infosys and its larger rival Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for possible violations of H-1B visa rules in June.
India's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services has bagged a $100 million (nearly Rs 450 crore) deal from US healthcare company Kimberly-Clark.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies and Wipro were eliminated from the selection process for the project on technical grounds. Another IT major, HCL Technologies, was also rejected. The size of the project is not yet known.
Two influential US Senators have renewed the campaign against the biggest users of H-1B visa workers in the US, including Indian heavyweights Infosys, Wipro, Satyam and Tata Consultancy Services. They fired off a missive to these companies asking how they employed professional and skilled workers, majority of whom hail from India.
The complaint was filed by non-US employees Gopi Vedachalam and Kangana Beri, who were sent from India to the US to work on projects.
Four of the 10 most valued domestic firms together added a whopping Rs 231,320.37 crore in market valuation last week, with market heavyweight Reliance Industries contributing the most to the overall gains. Last week, the Sensex jumped 884.57 points or 1.61 per cent. While TCS, Infosys and ICICI Bank were the other gainers from the top-10 pack, HDFC Bank, HUL, LIC, SBI, HDFC and Bharti Airtel faced erosion from their market valuation.
Information technology firms appear to have lost their appeal at the Indian Institutes of Technology. Campus recruitment figures by major Indian and foreign IT firms have dipped this year, raising further concerns of an industry slowdown.
Tata Consultancy Services on Monday announced the results for Q2 FY08. The net profit is up 22.8 per cent at Rs 1252 crore (Rs 12.52 billion).
Shares of India's largest information technology services company Tata Consultancy Services spurted by 20 per cent to touch an all-time high in early trade on the BSE on Friday, boosted by smart growth in net profit for the first quarter of FY2011-12, which analysts termed as above market expectations.
"We have reduced the time period for improving skills. Earlier, if an employee would show even a small improvement, we would give an extension of a few more months. Henceforth, that will not be done," said Ajoy Mukherjee, vice-president and head, global human resources. The company will consider an employee's performance for the past three years so as to maintain consistency.
"Outsourcing will continue. Even with the increase in wages in India by 14 or 14.5 per cent a year, we are still competitive upto the foreseeable future till 2011-12." TCS CEO and managing director S Ramadorai told reporters.
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