Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS) is a provider of IT and outsourcing services and business solutions for global companies.
Short Profile
Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS), part of the Tata Group, an Indian industrial conglomerate. The headquarters of TCS, Mumbai, India. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.
In Germany and Austria TCS is active with Central European headquarters in Frankfurt am Main since 1991. About 3,000 consultants serve more than 80 German and Austrian companies in the areas of product development, systems integration and consulting. Customers include Airbus, for example, the German bank, the German Stock Exchange, SAP, Commerzbank, Nokia Solutions and Networks and the Company.
The Global Network Delivery Model ( GNDM ™ ) of TCS includes a consulting and development-oriented portfolio of IT-enabled services for customers. Characteristics of GNDM are flexibility and scalability of skills and resources.
Corporate Structure
The company employs approximately 285,000 consultant and has 58 direct subsidiaries.
Among them:
- CMC Limited ( India)
- WTI Advanced Technology Limited ( India)
- APONLINE Limited ( India)
- C- Edge Technologies Limited (India)
- MP Online Limited (India)
- Tata America International Corporation (USA)
- Tata Consultancy Services Netherlands BV (Netherlands)
- Tata Consultancy Services Belgium SA (Belgium)
- Tata Consultancy Services Sverige AB ( Sweden)
- Tata Consultancy Services Germany GmbH (Germany)
- TCS Latin America SA (Uruguay )
- Tata Consultancy Services Asia Pacific Pte Limited Singapore
- TCS FNS Pty. Limited ( Australia)
- Diligenta Limited ( UK)
- Tata Consultancy Services Canada Inc. (Canada)
- Tata Infotech (Singapore ) Pte. Limited ( Singapore)
- Tata Consultancy Services Morocco SARL AU ( Morocco )
- Tata Consultancy Services ( Africa) ( PTY) Limited ( South Africa)
- TCS e -Serve Limited ( India)
Offices
TCS has 208 offices in 46 countries; including regional delivery centers in Europe, North and South America, India, China and Japan.
European Delivery Center are located for example in Dusseldorf ( Germany ), Budapest ( Hungary), Luxembourg ( Luxembourg ) and Peterborough ( UK). They act as an interface to the Global Network Delivery Model and realize offshoring models. European branch are also Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium; Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Poland and Austria.
The location of Dusseldorf mainly covers the areas of application development, architecture and consulting, product outsourcing, systems integration and testing. The focus is on agile software development and service-oriented architecture models (SOA). More German campuses in Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Walldorf and Wolfsburg.
Parent company and its history
TCS is part of the Tata Group, an Indian conglomerate. The company was founded in 1868 by Jamsetji Tata Nusserwanji (* 1839 in India, † 1904 in Germany ).
Today The Tata Group comprises 90 operating companies in seven independent sectors: communications and information technology, engineering (eg, the car division, Tata Motors ), steel, services (eg the Taj hotel group ), energy, consumer products and chemicals. Tata has approximately 400,000 employees on six continents.
The extension of the Tata group to the field of Information Technology was founded in 1968 with the establishment of Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS) by Fakir Chand Kohli. TCS founded in the wake of thirteen global delivery center.
In Germany and Austria TCS is active since 1991. At that time, the company opened an office in Frankfurt with ten employees. Hence the Germany headquarters of TCS which now has some 130 employees developed. TCS has also in Dusseldorf on a regional delivery centers. It serves as an interface to GNDM.
Products and services
TCS advises and serves customers in the areas of banking and finance, energy, utilities and waste disposal, healthcare and life sciences, high technology, insurance, manufacturing, retail and consumer goods, telecommunications, travel, transportation and hospitality industry as well as media and information services.
The portfolio is composed of:
- IT Services: Application development and maintenance, e-business, quality management
- IT Infrastructure Services: development and management of infrastructure, architecture and technology consulting, e- Security
- Enterprise Solutions: ERP solutions, SAP solutions and enhancements, industry-specific applications
- Business Process Services
- Frameworks for Business Intelligence and Performance Management
- Engineering and Industrial Services
- Consulting: on strategy and technology, outsourcing, offshore, process partnerships and solution deployment
Partnerships
Tata Consultancy Services is investing in research and development projects. The company is working with German universities and research institutes such as the Fraunhofer Institute.
2008 TCS opened with a SAP Center of Excellence for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Strategy and technology partner of TCS, for example, SAP, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Siemens, HP and Software AG.
Sponsoring
TCS is involved in sport and supports clubs and events around the world - including the U.S. cycling team Garmin - Cervélo, the Indian premier league cricket team Rajasthan Royal from Jaipur and various marathons ( as a technology partner ): the Mumbai Marathon ( since 2008 together with the main sponsor, Standard Chartered Bank) and 2010 and 2011, the Boston Marathon, Chicago Marathon, the New York City Marathon and the Berlin Marathon (since 2012).