In a bid to reduce costs and increased offshoring focus, Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest information technology company, has recalled close to 1,200 employees from the US and has decided not to hand out any salary increment this year.
Tata Consultancy Services has adopted several measures like avoiding travel and moving people from onsite to offshore to cut down costs, a senior official of the company said in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
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.
Top Indian IT companies such as Infosys, TCS and Wipro, which are mainly into software services business, could be toppled by lesser known firms in the outsourced (software) product development business in the coming years, according to industry offi
Compared to the last 40 years (of TCS' existence), this is by far the most challenging time. The last nine months, in particular, were quite challenging. Some of our top financial services customers were in a difficult situation.
The combined market valuation of three of the 10 most valued domestic firms eroded by Rs 73,630.56 crore last week, with Reliance Industries Limited taking the biggest hit. While HUL and ICICI Bank were the other laggards from the top-10 pack, TCS, HDFC Bank, Infosys, LIC, SBI, HDFC and Bharti Airtel were the gainers. However, the combined gain of the seven firms at Rs 49,441.05 crore was less than the total loss suffered by the three companies.
As Japan makes frantic efforts to deal with the nuclear radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the aftermath of earthquake and tsunami, Indian information technology firms have begun relocating the families of their Indian employees in the country.
Tata Consultancy Services posted 29.93 per cent jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,369.83 crore (Rs 23.69 billion) for the third quarter ended December 31, 2010. The company has announced 200 per cent dividend. It has declared the third interim dividend of Rs 2 per equity share of Re 1 each.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd climbed eight spots to the 45th rank, the highest for an Indian company on Forbes' latest Global 2000 list of public companies worldwide.
In a suit filed against Tata America International Corporation (TAIC) and its parent corporations -- TCS and Tata Sons Ltd -- on Tuesday, Gopi Vedachalam, contends he was instructed to sign over his federal and state tax refund checks to TCS.
State-owned BSNL will start 5G services in 2024, Union Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday. BSNL has shortlisted a TCS and C-DOT led consortium for rolling out 4G network, which will be upgraded to 5G in about a year of placing the order under the contract. "BSNL will start 5G services in 2024," Vaishnaw said while speaking to reporters in New Delhi.
The country's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services Ltd will not merge its subsidiary CMC Ltd. with itself, chief executive officer and managing director S. Ramadorai said Wednesday.\n\n\n\n
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.
The company said one of the projects will be finalised this financial year.
For TCS, the retail business has been growing at 10-12 per cent over the last three quarters. On a year-on-year basis, the growth rate of the retail business has been impacted due to currency fluctuation and the general slowdown. In dollar terms, the retail business grew 51.6 per cent for the company last financial year.
The third-quarter results of information technology (IT) software leaders indicate that the turnaround in the world's developed economies is a rising tide that is lifting virtually all boats.
"India is one of our focus markets, where we have crossed $500 million in (annual) revenue. Our India business has been growing in double digits for the last few years and we expect to continue this, as IT spending in the country is expected to rise further," said N Chandrasekaran, executive director and chief operating officer of the company. India contributed close to 8 per cent to the company's Rs 278.13 billion turnover in fiscal 2008-09.
"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.
The expenditure on human resources works out to 50 to 55 per cent of the reveneus of the company and it expects to optimise its cost through a proper mix of hiring trainees and profesionals. Ajoyendra Mukherjee, Vice-President and Head, Global HR of TCS told reporters in Mumbai on Thursday in the first quarter last year, the company had a hiring mix of 62 per cent professionals and 38 per cent trainees.
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After announcing the September quarter results on Tuesday which showed a 34 per cent increase in net profit to Rs 4,702 crore (Rs 47.02 billion), its chief executive officer and managaing director N Chandrasekaran had hinted at ramping up hiring for the fiscal.
The TCS CEO spoke about the IT major's operations in Canada.
TCS is said to have bagged a multi-million pound contract to support the disclosure and barring services for the Criminal Records Bureau of the UK.
Sensex shed 167 points to close at 28,633 and Nifty dropped 55 points to end at 8,695.
The board of directors of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has revised the maximum salary limit of chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director N Chandrasekaran to Rs 10,00,000 per month.
S Venkatramani, who will head the Indian operations, is already bullish about the opportunity the domestic market offers. Venkatramani takes over after the recent rejig announced by TCS in its organisational structure.
Largest software exporter TCS said it will keep its campus hiring target flat at 25,000 next fiscal and also ruled out pay revision for those joining next year.
Demand is driven by smaller deals in the US, larger ones in Europe.
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