YEAR EVENTS
2000 - The Company has launched its most integrated business
accounting
software `Personal Accountant' in Guwahati.
- The Company has been awarded a multi-million-dollar
contract to
develop a software system, which will make insurance
information
from the General Organisation of Social Insurance,
Saudi Arabia
available on the Internet.
- The Company has signed a global alliance with
Choridiant
Software, Inc a leading provider of e-business
infrastructure
software for customer interaction.
- The Company and Housing Development Finance Corporation
have set
up Rs 40-crore company with 50:50 partnership to
provide
IT-enabled services to overseas companies.
- Tata Consultancy Services has entered into a tie-up
with
PrimeResponse to architect, implement, support and
consult its
e-marketing solution -- Prime@Vantage.com.
- The Company has entered into an alliance with
Broadvision, a
California-based personalised e-business applications
provider,
to offer the latter's business solutions in India.
- Mr. S. Ramadorai, Chief Executive Officer, Tata
Consultancy
Services has been appointed as Director on the board of
Tata
Industries Ltd.
- The Company has emerged as Asia's largest software and
services
company launched its computer security consultancy
practice.
- Software major Tata Consultancy Services proposes to set
up three
additional development centres in the country including
one at
Coimbatore within the next couple of year.
- TCS has made significant investments in newer
technologies and Wireless
Application Protocol (WAP) as a strategic area of focus.
Towards this
the company has signed a memorandum of understanding
with Jataayu
Software (P) Ltd. for WAP technology.
- The Tata Consultancy Services has opened four new offices
in the US, which
would focus on high quality technology services and
innovative research
and development.
- Visual Soft Technologies Ltd. and Tata Consultancy
Services have each
bagged two awards from the Hyderabad Software Exporters
Association
for the year 2000.
- Tata Consultancy Services has received the Global
Partnership Award
2000 from AIESEC International, the Rotterdam-based
NGO.
- The World's leading automotive systems major, Delphi
Automotive Systems has
entered into a tie-up with infotech leaders Infosys, TCS
and CG Smith for
embedded software development for its worldwide
operations.
- The Company has entered into a strategic partnership
with the universal
description, discovery and integration project.
2001 - The Company has signed an MoU with the Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras to set
up a Centre of Excellence on computational engineering.
- Tata Consultancy Services and hte Institute for
Development and Research in
Banking Technology have entered into an agreement ofr
deploying a messaging
solution for the Indian banking and financial sector.
- Tata Consultancy Services has earmarked a Rs 200-crore
corpus for funding research and development
initiatives. This year, the company’s focus areas for R&D will be
bio-informatics and Net security.
- Software and services major, Tata Consultancy Services it
has entered into a partnership
with Swedish Bank Sakndinaviska Enskilda Banken,
US-based Ankar Capital and
Compas Venture ot develop wealth management products and
services for leading
Asian banks.
- The Information technology company of Tata Sons, Tata
Infotech may be merged with
Tata Consultancy Services, the software services division
of Tata Sons.
- Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys have emerged as the
leading Indian software exporters
during 2000-01, clocking exports worth Rs 2,870.26 crore
and Rs 1,852.94 crore, respectively.
- Tata Consultancy Services, a global software solutions
and consulting services enterprises,
has signed up with Ericsson worldwide to provide
cost-effective solutions in telecom through its
Global Development Centre in Hyderabad
- Tata Consultancy Services, the software solutions and
consulting services enterprise, has
signed an agreement to provide software solutions to
Ericsson World-wide..
- TCS has spread its operations into the Asia-Pacific by
setting up a regional headquarters in
Singapore to focus primarily on the emerging infocomm
industry in the region.
- TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), the global software
solutions and consulting services major, has entered
into a multi-year collaborative agreement with the Hyderabad-based
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), a
leading R&D laboratory under the Department of
Biotechnology.
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a division of Tata Sons,
appears to have initiated the spadework for its proposed
initial public offering (IPO).
- Oracle Software India on September 25 announced Tata
Consultancy Services as a member of its mobile partner initiative
programme to offer solutions and services based on Oracle mobile
application suites.
- Tata Consultancy Services has announced the opening of a
new office in Portland, Oregon. The office has been
opened as part of the company's North American strategy. The
0-million company, with 18,000 employees, has 40
offices in the US alone, and over a hundred worldwide.
2002-
_ TCS bags order of Rs 500 crore from SBI.
-Mr P K Chakravarty, Company Secretary & Compliance Officer of Tata
Construction & Projects Ltd has resigned from the services of the
company wef from the close of office hours on July 31, 2002.
2003
-TCS sets up dedicated department to train its employees to speak at
least 1 foreign language
-TCS makes turnkey project for Chennai Telephone call centre
-Tata Consultancy new BPO partner of Aviva
-TCS issues digital certificates to 12 delegates
2004
-Ties up with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd to provide medical
advisory and counselling services at Ghar, the highway retailing
initiative of BPCL
- Acquires Singapore Airlines' (SIA) 51 per cent stake in their joint
venture, Aviation Software Development Consultancy India, for Rs 14.03
crore
--Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd
(BHEL) on April 2 announced the release of PowerPac-G, a software
product that addresses decision support and integrated asset
management needs of power generation plants. TCS and BHEL will
jointly market the product in the Indian and global markets, and
initial orders have been firmed up.
-Tata Sons has transferred its entire 51.12 per cent equity stake in
CMC to group company Tata Consultancy services (TCS) for Rs 380 crore
at Rs 490.5 a share.
-Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced the opening of its
'automotive centre of excellence' in Detroit, US,
- The company has appointed US-headquartered public relations (PR)
agency Fleishman Hillard to handle its international public relations
operations.
-Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has acquired Phoenix Global
Solutions (PGS) from the Phoenix Companies Inc
-TCS enters strategic global OEM partnership with i2
- PNB mandates TCS to deploy HR Solutions
-Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has joined hands with PeopleSoft to
handle a Rs 5-10 crore worth project mandated by Punjab National Bank
(PNB) to implement human capital management and payroll solution.
-Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, the jewel in the Tata group's crown,
has a new board of directors. Ratan N Tata, non-executive chairman of
Tata Sons, along with S Ramadorai and Aman Mehta, have joined the
board
-Bahrain National Holding (BNH) Company has signed a long-term
contract with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), to consolidate its
position as a preferred insurance service provider.
-eSeva APOnline, a joint venture between the government of Andhra
Pradesh and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for government to citizen
(G2C) services, has launched a new initiative Home Seva on July 16
-TCS has set up its ninth development centre near Chennai on the Old
Mahabalipuram Road, the city's information technology corridor
- Tata Consultancy Services made its debut on the two premier stock
exchanges on August 25, closing around 16 per cent higher than the
issue price of Rs 850 per share discovered through book building on a
price range of Rs 775 to Rs 900 per share
-Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society (CHiPS), joins
with TCS to become a digital certificate issuing authority
-TCS MD gets inaugural award for Indo-US Business Excellence
-TCS sets up office in Brussels
-TCS join hands with US firm to develop a wireless payment platform
-Andhra Pradesh Technology Services (APTS) join hands with TCS to
issue digital certificates.
-TCS forges alliance with Israeli biotech firm
-TCS forges alliance with TAFE Global
-Leading software company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has
announced an alliance with the MIT Sloan Center for Information
Systems Research (CISR), strengthening ties with the world's leading
academic institutions
-Tata Consultancy Services Ltd ties up with Formula One racing car
champion Ferrari to provide information technology and engineering
services for the development of the team's racing car for the 2005
season.
2005
-TCS forges alliance with Hyperion
- Computer Associates International Inc (CA) enters into a strategic
partnership with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) to secure the
latter's operations covering 55 centres globally by deploying CA's
eTrust end-to-end security solutions.
-TCS, NAL enters into MoU for aerospace solutions
-TCS sets up new development centre in Kochi
-Tata Consultancy Services has two new offerings in store for the
pharma and clinical trials market
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) becomes country's first IT company
to cross the billion mark as it closed fiscal 2005 with Rs
9,748.47 crore in revenues. At Rs 1,976.90 crore in net profit, it is
also the first software giant to cross 0 million in net profit.
-SICO selects TCS & Microsoft as Strategic Partners
-TCS forges alliance with US-based QAD Inc
-TCS inks pact with Italian company
-BindView in alliance with TCS
-TCS gets UK Trade and Investment Special Recognition Award
-TCS enters into global partnership with SAP AG to deliver Adaptive
Manufacturing Solutions using SAP Manufacturing Integration and
Intelligence and a set of TCS industry-specific composite
applications.
2006
-Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) got an interior design deal from US
airframe manufacturer Boeing Company and will work closely with its
customer to design the interiors of new aircraft.
- Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) has informed that the Board of
Directors of the Company at its meeting held on November 02, 2006 has
appointed Mrs Laura M Cha on the Board of the Company as an
Independent Director.
-Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) has announced that the Company
has signed a seven year agreement to provide a full range of managed
IT services to Somerfield, a leading UK-based small-format food
retailer, building on an existing eight-year relationship between the
Company and Somerfield.
-TCS signs services contact with United Biscuits.
2007
- Tata Consultancy Services Limited has informed vide its letter
dated September 06, 2007 that: the following senior executives of the
Company have today been elevated to the Board of Directors of the
Company as Executive Directors:
(i) Mr. N. Chandrasekaran
(ii) Mr. S. Mahalingam
(iii) Mr. S. Padmanabhan
(iv) Mr. P. A. Vandrevala. Mr. N. Chandrasekaran will be the Chief
Operating Officer of the Company and Mr. S. Mahalingam will continue
to be the Chief Financial Officer.
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has bagged .2 billion outsourcing
contract from Nielsen partners, the largest ever-outsourcing deal for
any Indian IT player.
-Tata Consultancy Services Ltd has announced that Standard & Poor's
Ratings Services has assigned the Company a corporate credit rating
of 'BBB' with a positive outlook.
- Tata Consultancy Services has rolled out a new set of solutions for
airlines.
2008
-Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) on April 05, 2008 has announced
that it has signed a new multi-year contract with Chrysler LLC to
provide a comprehensive portfolio of IT services. The scope of this
contract integrates the contract TCS announced in February with
Chrysler.
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has signed a five-year global
contract with telecom giant Ericsson. TCS will deliver application
maintenance and development services for Ericsson's internal IT
operations. TCS will be one of the two strategic partners responsible
for delivering application maintenance services to Ericsson. It will
also be a preferred supplier for application development services.
2009
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has bagged a multi-year IT
solutions contract from Infineon Technologies AG (IFX), a
semiconductor manufacturer. Under the agreement, TCS will operate and
maintain solutions for the Infineon's Supply Chain Management (SCM)
landscape. The Infineon SCM Planning operations will be operated out
of Munich, Germany and Bangalore, India.
- TCS has won an million outsourcing contract from UK's Child
Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC). The order is first in
a series of almost -3 billion worth of contracts to be awarded by
UK's state-owned departments.
- Tata Consultancy Services opened a new Global Delivery Center in
Buenos Aires, Argentina - the first company to officially inaugurate
its facilities in the new Technology District of the City of Buenos
Aires.
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has opened a new global delivery
centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010
- TCS has bagged a multi-year deal from the British government to
administer the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST).Personal
Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA), a non-departmental public body
(NDPB), will sign a contract with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
later this month which will be divided into two stages and running
into 10 years.
- Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), India's top software services
exporter, today said that it had signed a multi-year outsourcing
contract with Norway's Telenor.
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has bagged a five-year IT
infrastructure management services contract worth more than
Australian million (about Rs.218 crore) from Australian renewable
energy company AGL Energy.
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