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India's Top-Notch IT Companies

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Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) founded in 1968, is one of the major providers of information technology services not only in India but across the world. With the launch of Inter-Branch Reconciliation System (IBRS) for the Central Bank of India, TCS became the first company to launch the country's first software project. The project that made TCS grow tremendously over the years was the Y2K conversion model. Y2K problem proved to be a catalyst for the growth of the company. TCS developed software tools which automated the Y2K conversion process and enabled third-party developers and clients to make use of it. Another creative work by TCS is the creation of its own banking product called Quartz which is marketed today as TCS BaNCS since TCS acquired Australian Financial Software firm FNS to integrate FNS's core banking product with various in-house financial services industry products. Today TCS BaNCS Suite has more than 200 banking customers across the world. In mid-2011, the company entered the small and medium enterprises market with cloud-based offerings called iON which is also amongst one of the innovations of TCS._______

Wipro, formally Western India Products Limited, was established in 1980. It is the third largest IT services companies in India. In 1966, Azim Premji took over the mantle of leadership of Wipro at the age of 21, and with the passage of time he transformed it into one of the largest IT outsourcing services providers of the world. Wipro's success story got started by the launch of the first indigenous homemade PC from India in 1985. Wipro then continued its innovations in the PC development and also became the first company to indigenously design and develop a mini computer on the Intel 80386 microprocessor. Wipro was the sole representative for Sun Microsystems in India, before the Sun liaison office was set up in India, in the early 1990s.

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Wipro followed its strategy of acquiring small and mid-sized companies operating in niche segments. The acquisitions majorly helped in expanding its Global reach and strengthening its domain expertise worldwide which helped Wipro Technologies emerged as the largest publicly listed software exporter in India and the first software service company in the world to be assessed at SEI CMM level 5 the first outside the USA to receive the IEEE Software Process Award. _______

Infosys was established in 1981 by N R Narayan Murthy and six other engineers in Pune with an initial capital of only Rs 10,000. Their first client in India was MICO in Bangalore in 1983 and on foreign soil it was Data Basics Corporation in New York. Infosys kept on concentrating on the global market rather than only on Indian companies. The success of Infosys came through exports, after achieving ISO 9001 certification in 1993.

In the journey of 30 years, Infosys has catalyzed some of the major changes that have led to India's emergence as the global destination for software services talent by completing more than 20,000 projects with a 99% error-free record. Infosys pioneered the Global Delivery Model and became the first IT Company from India to be listed on NASDAQ with revenues touching US $100 million. In 1993, Infosys came up with Core Banking System called BANCS 2000 for an Indian retail bank and kept on innovating the solution. This in 1997 resulted Infosys assessed at CMM Level 4 and soon after two years Infosys became the 21st company in the world to achieve a CMM Level 5 certification.

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Later in mid-2000, they re-launched it as Finacle universal banking solution which was chosen in over 106 banks across 60 countries which is one of the major milestones of Infosys. Today they have innovated solutions like

e-banking, mobile banking, Finacle Alerts and

lot more._______

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Founded in 1983, Blue Star Infotech is based in Mumbai and Bangalore. Between 1983 and 1989, the company was into a rough weather in the competitive environment of the industry as all the companies were running for foreign tie-ups. Blue Star also followed it. They collaborated with Hewlett-Packard, but that didn't turn up as productive as it was expected. In March 1990, Blue Star Infotech acquired a 100% owned subsidiary in USA called USIN International Inc and later renamed as Blue Star Infotech America.

The period 1990-1995 was a milestone for them when they built relationships with a growing number of overseas and domestic customers and expanding its offices. The year 1998 was remarkable for Blue Star Infotech with the HP relationship turning into a major engagement with the setting up of an 'Extended Office' in ISD's new facility at Bangalore. In 2003, Blue Star Infotech was successfully assessed at SEI-CMMi Level 5. In July 2009, Blue Star Infotech successfully deployed its NAV Elixir.

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It was a customized, cost-effective ERP solution specially designed for the pharmaceutical industry. Today, going with the industry needs Blue Star Infotech is providing cloud services into a strategic partnership with Platform Lab to deliver cloud testing services._______

CMC was incorporated on December 26, 1975, as the 'Computer Maintenance Corporation Private Limited'. The Government of India held 100 per cent of the equity share capital. On August 19, 1977, it was converted into a public limited company. In 1978 when IBM left India leaving all the computer users in a lurch, CMC limited played big role in providing IT services in India. It took over the maintenance of IBM installations at over 800 locations in India. Towards this end, in 1991, CMC acquired Baton Rouge International Inc, USA, which was one of the first cross-border acquisitions by an Indian IT firm. CMC Limited has done many government projects including Freight Operations Information System (FOIS). This remarkable software solution has enabled the Indian Railways to boost efficiency as well as save money. Projects like FACTS, MACH, GPS, IMMS, etc show the capability of the company to compete in the advanced IT world._______

Zenith Computers Limited is the second largest Personal Computer manufacturer in India. The firm produces desktop and laptop computers. Its head office is located in Mumbai, with 15 branches in India. The firm has 500 Zenith PC World stores and 1000 dealers nationwide. Its PCs and laptops are now available in South America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, SAARC and Asia. Zenith computers came in 1980 and it was one of the first companies to introduce the advanced 80386 based supermicro-computers. In 1980s, its products got popular and it became market leader as it launched LAN based systems in the market. In Feb 2002, Zenith signed with Microsoft to become Microsoft Certified Partner who can provide infrastructure and security solution based on Windows platform for Indian SME customer. In 2004, Zenith had decided to prepare a team for IBM Brand Products. Today, the company concentrates in workflow solutions for the Indian SME customer using Lotus Workflow integrated with Lotus Document Manager and Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conference. Their products can integrate to any other enterprise system such as SAP R3, etc.

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