The organization named Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is based in India, but easily ranks as one of the leading information technology services company in the world. TCS has a workforce of slightly over 74,000 professionals, and its operations are spread across over 50 global delivery centers. The main task of the latter is to help organizations stay ahead and help them with new technology. The major clients of TCS include seven among the top ten organizations as per the Fortune 500 list of largest companies in the United States. The numerous products and services of TCS do help other organizations operating in various fields to cope up with their specific business challenges. Apart from offering technical expertise and working on the basis of a customized and flexible approach to client relationships, the company offers clients help in the fields of business process outsourcing, consulting, infrastructure outsourcing, IT services, engineering and industrial services. From the beginning, TCS has invested in newer technological knowhow, processes as well as human assets, which in turn, helps its customers to succeed. Having made use of inputs from university alliances as well as its innovation labs, the company TCS helps in keeping clients updated with newer technology. The company has already attained various benchmarks in the field of software development. For instance, it was the company in the world to have achieved an enterprise-wide Maturity Level 5 based on certain quality improvement models. These were CMMI® and P-CMM®, and made use of the most rigorous assessment methodology, which was SCAMPISM. The company Tata Consultancy Services was set up in the year 1968. This served as the forerunner for other software companies set up later in India. The organization started as a division of Tata Group (Tata Computer Centre), whose core business lies in providing computer services to other companies. TCS brought in an electrical engineer from Tata Electric Companies, Fakir Chand Kohli, who was appointed as the company's first General Manager. Later on, the company was called Tata Consultancy Services, and set up its operations in India in 1968. The first software export project which was carried out by TCS in 1974 took place when the Hospital Information System from Burroughs Medium Systems COBOL was converted into Burroughs Small Systems COBOL. The entire project was delivered from TCS Mumbai, and it was carried out on the ICL 1903 Computer. TCS had a team of more than 12 people who delivered the entire project to the company's first US based customer. This again signalled the birth of the Indian Software Export Industry. In the 1970s, the company had offices in Britain, the Netherlands and even Switzerland. In fact, in the year 1979, TCS reached a landmark when it became the first Indian software services firm which opened an overseas office in New York, USA. Locations With the TCS headquarters located in Mumbai, the company operates in more than 50 countries worldwide and has expanded its network to include over 170 offices across most countries. TCS is listed on the country's National Stock Exchange as well as the Bombay Stock Exchange. The company core business areas, which assist its clients in optimizing business processes and enables them to build up more IT infrastructure are as follows: Consulting In the field of consulting services, TCS helps its clients to transform the way they conduct business by optimizing their business processes. It also aligns IT services with business requirements, designs highly effective risk management strategies as well provides all round support to IT operations. IT services The company is into testing solutions and system integration processes, apart from management oriented services and application development. All these help its customers to make the most of their IT investments. Business Process Outsourcing In the field of business process outsourcing, the company works with companies all over the world, and continuously helps them to focus on their core business processes. At the same time, it accelerates outsourced operations, and moreover ensures 24x7 service delivery. Infrastructure outsourcing TCS forms a partnership with several companies to make their IT infrastructure look more flexible as well as secure, at the same time maximizes performance. Engineering and Industrial Services TCS makes use of the best technological processes and core competencies, to help clients with product development, as well as asset management and production. For more information on Outsourcing Firms and Companies, keep browsing bpo.ucoz.com.