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Building greater futures through innovation and collective knowledge

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses for the past 50 years. We believe innovation and collective knowledge can transform all our futures with greater purpose.

TCS at a glance

  • Our commitment
  • Our road-map
  • Our context
  • Our beliefs
  • Our stories

    • In it for good

    We take a long-term view, building relationships that endure, leading to mutual growth and sustainable outcomes.

    Bring everything

    When you are out to change your world, you need a partner who can combine every resource in their armory with an utter determination to succeed. Ideas magnified and value multiplied, at global scale.

    Know-how

    With TCS, you experience certainty. We are a knowledge network of the smartest minds and practitioners who apply concept to context for real outcomes.

    Master the journey

    Along with certainty, you also need partners who can deal with uncertainty. We provide the agility and continuity you need to navigate perpetual change.

    Develop and share access to knowledge

    We collaborate and build on knowledge and expertise to improve ourselves and the world we live in.

    Build resilience and grow through change

    We navigate & protect against an increasing rate of economic and environmental disruption in order to grow sustainably.

    Support inclusion and equality for all

    We create equal opportunity by addressing the needs of disadvantaged, marginalized, or underrepresented communities.

    Adapt how we work and live

    We facilitate social mobility, providing individuals with the opportunity to work where and how they want.

    Nurture future generations

    Build a more inclusive and secure planet by providing access to knowledge and resources to improve quality of life.

    Choose how to connect and what to consume

    Give individuals greater choice and control over how and where they engage with the world around them. 

    Create stronger, healthier communities

    Encourage healthier lives and promote well-being, so that everyone is able to productively contribute to society.

    Contribute to a net-zero carbon future

    Build the sustainable roadmaps across industries and business ecosystems that will lead to a zero-carbon future.

    We are responsible to every life we touch

    The work we do makes a difference to the way millions live, work, and play.

    Technology must work for everyone

    To be truly transformative, technology must work for everyone, delivering tangible benefits to those who use it daily.

    The only future is a sustainable future

    We have always looked and planned ahead and considered the long-term implications of what we do.

    Progress is only possible through real partnership

    By working as true partners over the long term, we deliver the most sustainable and successful results.

    Mastering the context

    We believe our contextual knowledge and expertise is a differentiating factor in bringing our clients vision to life.

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    A culture of innovation

    We believe that learning and evolving how we deploy new technologies delivers meaningful growth for our clients.

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    Building belief sustainably

    We believe that sustainable roadmaps across industries and ecosystems will lead to a zero carbon future.

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    Timeline

    Our history

    • 1968
    • 1971
    • 1973
    • 1979
    • 1981
    • 1982
    • 1989
    • 1997
    • 2002
    • 2004
    • 2006
    • 2007
    • 2009
    • 2011
    • 2014
    • 2016
    • 2017
    • 2020
    • 2022
    fakir chand
    Mr. Fakir Chand Kohli, fondly known as the Father of Indian IT, brings together a young team of enthusiastic US returned IT professionals to create demand for downstream computer services.
    1968
    1971
    TCS wins its first external contract - power companies were being set up in Iran as part of an infrastructure building program and TCS wins projects to build inventory and stock control systems for these stations.
    1971
    1973
    When TCS wins a project to convert a hospital accounting project written in Burroughs Medium systems COBOL to Burroughs Small systems COBOL, we do not have a Burroughs computer! An in-house tool was built to write this code and then shipped to the US - the first offshore delivery project.
    1973
    1979
    TCS establishes its first sales office in New York, headed by S Ramadorai. One of our first major clients was the Institutional Group Information Corporation (IGIC).
    1979
    1981
    JRD Tata’s vision comes to fruition when TCS sets up India’s first software research center, the Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC) in Pune.
    1981
    1982
    TCS forays into software with a data dictionary for Burroughs, which eventually leads to the creation of an accounting package EX.
    1982
    1989
    TCS signs a US$ 10 million deal with Swiss Securities Clearing Corporation, significant for its complexity and size.
    1989
    1997
    TCS is all-in on the Y2K remediation opportunity, and pioneers the concept of a software factory to address the challenge. Using a highly automated approach, TCS leverages special tools developed for the conversion and remediates about 700 million lines of code.
    1997
    2002
    We sign our first US$ 100 million deal with GE Medical systems, the largest single contract ever won by an Indian software services firm.
    2002
    2004
    TCS debuts at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange, with the largest IPO by a private sector company at an astounding US$ 1 billion dollars.
    2004
    2006
    TCS’ launches a Co-innovation network (COIN) to bring the best technology available in the start-up eco system to solve customer challenges. Today this network has over 2,500 start-ups and over 50 academic partners.
    2006
    2007
    TCS signs its first US$1 billion deal.
    2007
    2009
    We offer a cloud-based business model to provide services to life insurance companies in the UK – a value so compelling that we’ve ranked as the #1 provider in the UK market ever since.
    2009
    2011
    TCS creates iON, extending cloud-based services to small and medium businesses
    2011
    2014
    TCS becomes the first Indian company to sponsor the NY marathon, now a tradition that has expanded and continued across the globe.
    2014
    2016
    2016 is our baseline year to measure scope emissions for our goal to be net zero by 2030
    2016
    2017
    We announce the largest ever buyback in the history of Indian capital markets (INR 1.6 billion) to demonstrate our commitment to shareholders.
    2017
    2020
    TCS is the largest agile workforce in the world with over 545,000+ agile ready associates.
    2020
    2022
    TCS clock US$ 25.7 billion in revenue and an all-time high incremental revenue addition of US$ 3.5 billion.
    2022
    fakir chand
    Mr. Fakir Chand Kohli, fondly known as the Father of Indian IT, brings together a young team of enthusiastic US returned IT professionals to create demand for downstream computer services.
    1968
    1971
    TCS wins its first external contract - power companies were being set up in Iran as part of an infrastructure building program and TCS wins projects to build inventory and stock control systems for these stations.
    1971
    1973
    When TCS wins a project to convert a hospital accounting project written in Burroughs Medium systems COBOL to Burroughs Small systems COBOL, we do not have a Burroughs computer! An in-house tool was built to write this code and then shipped to the US - the first offshore delivery project.
    1973
    1979
    TCS establishes its first sales office in New York, headed by S Ramadorai. One of our first major clients was the Institutional Group Information Corporation (IGIC).
    1979
    1981
    JRD Tata’s vision comes to fruition when TCS sets up India’s first software research center, the Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC) in Pune.
    1981
    1982
    TCS forays into software with a data dictionary for Burroughs, which eventually leads to the creation of an accounting package EX.
    1982
    1989
    TCS signs a US$ 10 million deal with Swiss Securities Clearing Corporation, significant for its complexity and size.
    1989
    1997
    TCS is all-in on the Y2K remediation opportunity, and pioneers the concept of a software factory to address the challenge. Using a highly automated approach, TCS leverages special tools developed for the conversion and remediates about 700 million lines of code.
    1997
    2002
    We sign our first US$ 100 million deal with GE Medical systems, the largest single contract ever won by an Indian software services firm.
    2002
    2004
    TCS debuts at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange, with the largest IPO by a private sector company at an astounding US$ 1 billion dollars.
    2004
    2006
    TCS’ launches a Co-innovation network (COIN) to bring the best technology available in the start-up eco system to solve customer challenges. Today this network has over 2,500 start-ups and over 50 academic partners.
    2006
    2007
    TCS signs its first US$1 billion deal.
    2007
    2009
    We offer a cloud-based business model to provide services to life insurance companies in the UK – a value so compelling that we’ve ranked as the #1 provider in the UK market ever since.
    2009
    2011
    TCS creates iON, extending cloud-based services to small and medium businesses
    2011
    2014
    TCS becomes the first Indian company to sponsor the NY marathon, now a tradition that has expanded and continued across the globe.
    2014
    2016
    2016 is our baseline year to measure scope emissions for our goal to be net zero by 2030
    2016
    2017
    We announce the largest ever buyback in the history of Indian capital markets (INR 1.6 billion) to demonstrate our commitment to shareholders.
    2017
    2020
    TCS is the largest agile workforce in the world with over 545,000+ agile ready associates.
    2020
    2022
    TCS clock US$ 25.7 billion in revenue and an all-time high incremental revenue addition of US$ 3.5 billion.
    2022
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      fakir chand
      Mr. Fakir Chand Kohli, fondly known as the Father of Indian IT, brings together a young team of enthusiastic US returned IT professionals to create demand for downstream computer services.
      1968
      1971
      TCS wins its first external contract - power companies were being set up in Iran as part of an infrastructure building program and TCS wins projects to build inventory and stock control systems for these stations.
      1971
      1973
      When TCS wins a project to convert a hospital accounting project written in Burroughs Medium systems COBOL to Burroughs Small systems COBOL, we do not have a Burroughs computer! An in-house tool was built to write this code and then shipped to the US - the first offshore delivery project.
      1973
      1979
      TCS establishes its first sales office in New York, headed by S Ramadorai. One of our first major clients was the Institutional Group Information Corporation (IGIC).
      1979
      1981
      JRD Tata’s vision comes to fruition when TCS sets up India’s first software research center, the Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC) in Pune.
      1981
      1982
      TCS forays into software with a data dictionary for Burroughs, which eventually leads to the creation of an accounting package EX.
      1982
      1989
      TCS signs a US$ 10 million deal with Swiss Securities Clearing Corporation, significant for its complexity and size.
      1989
      1997
      TCS is all-in on the Y2K remediation opportunity, and pioneers the concept of a software factory to address the challenge. Using a highly automated approach, TCS leverages special tools developed for the conversion and remediates about 700 million lines of code.
      1997
      2002
      We sign our first US$ 100 million deal with GE Medical systems, the largest single contract ever won by an Indian software services firm.
      2002
      2004
      TCS debuts at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange, with the largest IPO by a private sector company at an astounding US$ 1 billion dollars.
      2004
      2006
      TCS’ launches a Co-innovation network (COIN) to bring the best technology available in the start-up eco system to solve customer challenges. Today this network has over 2,500 start-ups and over 50 academic partners.
      2006
      2007
      TCS signs its first US$1 billion deal.
      2007
      2009
      We offer a cloud-based business model to provide services to life insurance companies in the UK – a value so compelling that we’ve ranked as the #1 provider in the UK market ever since.
      2009
      2011
      TCS creates iON, extending cloud-based services to small and medium businesses
      2011
      2014
      TCS becomes the first Indian company to sponsor the NY marathon, now a tradition that has expanded and continued across the globe.
      2014
      2016
      2016 is our baseline year to measure scope emissions for our goal to be net zero by 2030
      2016
      2017
      We announce the largest ever buyback in the history of Indian capital markets (INR 1.6 billion) to demonstrate our commitment to shareholders.
      2017
      2020
      TCS is the largest agile workforce in the world with over 545,000+ agile ready associates.
      2020
      2022
      TCS clock US$ 25.7 billion in revenue and an all-time high incremental revenue addition of US$ 3.5 billion.
      2022

      Investors

      Positioned for long-term sustainable growth

      TCS is seen as a benchmark in its outreach to investors, in its transparency and disclosures, publicly communicating its strategy, risks and opportunities, reducing information asymmetries and enabling fair valuation of the stock.

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