5 Indian Firms Among World's Most Innovative Companies
4 Tata Consultancy Services
Industry: Computer Services
Chief Executive Officer: N. Chandrasekaran
With a market capital of $45.53 billion (as of April 2012), Tata Consultancy Services was listed by Forbes at the 29th position. Founded in 1968, this multi-national company headquartered in Mumbai is engaged in providing information technology services, business solutions and outsourcing and it employs 198,614 people.
TCS’ services portfolio consists of application development and maintenance, business intelligence (BI), enterprise solutions, assurance, engineering and industrial services, IT infrastructure services, business process outsourcing, consulting and asset leveraged solutions.
The company also provides its services for several other industries, such as life sciences and healthcare, hi-tech, energy, resources and utilities, media and entertainment and travel, transportation and hospitality.
Tata Consultancy Services is a subsidiary of the Tata Group and is listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India. It is one of the most valued firms in India and one of the five largest India-based IT services firms.
