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
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
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
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
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
TCS forays into software with a data dictionary for Burroughs, which eventually leads to the creation of an accounting package EX.
1982
TCS signs a US$ 10 million deal with Swiss Securities Clearing Corporation, significant for its complexity and size.
1989
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
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
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
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
TCS signs its first US$1 billion deal.
2007
We offer a cloud-based business model to provide services to life insurance companies in the UK – a value so compelling that we’ve ranked as the #1 provider in the UK market ever since.
2009
TCS creates iON, extending cloud-based services to small and medium businesses
2011
TCS becomes the first Indian company to sponsor the NY marathon, now a tradition that has expanded and continued across the globe.
2014
2016 is our baseline year to measure scope emissions for our goal to be net zero by 2030
2016
We announce the largest ever buyback in the history of Indian capital markets (INR 1.6 billion) to demonstrate our commitment to shareholders.
2017
TCS is the largest agile workforce in the world with over 545,000+ agile ready associates.
2020
TCS clock US$ 25.7 billion in revenue and an all-time high incremental revenue addition of US$ 3.5 billion.
2022