TCS

Revenue: Rs 47779 Cr.

TCS (founded in 1968) is headquartered in Mumbai, India and is the leading company in IT
services and IT consulting in India. Its founder was the much renowned J.R.D. Tata and is
currently led by Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran at the CEO position. It has around 300,464
employees spread across 46 countries across the world. This company has also been
added to the Big 4 most valuable IT services brands worldwide with IBM, HP and
Accenture. TCS has been able to maintain its number 1 position in Indian IT industry since
a long period of time and has also been ranked amongst the top worldwide. TCS and its 59
subsidiaries provide a range of information technology-related products and services
including application development, business process outsourcing, capacity planning,
consulting, enterprise software, hardware sizing, payment processing, software
management and technology education services. Hence, it has been building on more than
40 years of experience, and strives to add real value to global organizations through its
domain expertise and world-class service.
INFOSYS
Revenue: Rs 32975 Cr.
Infosys (founded in 1981) is led by the renowned Mr. Narayan Muthi and is headquartered in
Bangalore,India. It has global presence with 73 offices and 94 development centers in the
United States, India, China, Australia, Japan, Middle East, and Europe, giving employment
to around 160,405 employees worldwide. Infosys provides software development,
maintenance and independent validation services to companies in banking, finance,
insurance, manufacturing and other domains. From a capital of about US$ 250, it has
grown to become a US$ 8.25 billion (FY14 revenues) company with a market capitalization
of approximately US$ 31 billion. Apart from its IT service excellence Infosys has been
ranked among the 'Top Ten Greenest Brands in India, according to a consumer survey
conducted in 2011 by Cohn & Wolfe. Infosys has been featured in the 'Green Brands' list for
the third consecutive year. Hence, for over three decades, Infosys as a company focused
on bringing to life great ideas and enterprise solutions that drive progress for clients.

WIPRO
Revenue: Rs 28312 Cr
Wipro founded in 1945 by Mr. MH Premji (current CEO Mr. TK Kurien), has 146,053
employees spread across 61 countries. Wipro Limited is a global provider of
comprehensive IT solutions and services, including Systems Integration, Consulting,
Information Systems outsourcing, IT-enabled services, and R&D services. It is also a value
added reseller of desktops, servers, notebooks, storage products, networking solutions
and packaged software for international brands. To focus on core IT Business, it demerged
its non-IT businesses into a separate company named Wipro Enterprises Limited with
effect from 31 March 2013. This company offers services in healthcare, infrastructure etc.
and contributed to around 10% of the profit. Wipro is presently ranked among the top 100
Technology companies in the world. It is the first Indian IT Service Provider to be awarded

Gold-Level Status in Microsoft's Windows Embedded Partner Program and the first in the
world to use six sigma.

TECH MAHINDRA
Revenue: Rs 11925 Cr.
Tech Mahindra is part of the $12.5 billion Mahindra Group, in partnership with British
Telecommunications plc (BT), one of the worlds leading communications service
providers. It was founded in 1986 and currently has its headquarters in Mumbai, India. The
merger with Mahindra Satyam in the year 2013 has helped it climb the ladder from the
number 5 to the number 4 as compared to last years statistics and hence now the
complete entity has 89,500 employees, servicing 540 customers across 49 countries. It has
some well known famous personalities linked with its success, Anand Mahindra was its
founder and current chairman and CP Gurnani holds the position of the CEO and MD. Its
activities spread across a broad spectrum, including Business Support Systems (BSS),
Operations Support Systems (OSS), Network Design & Engineering, Next Generation
Networks, Mobility Solutions, and Security consulting and testing. However, The primary
segment of the Company is business segment by category of customers is the Telecom
Service Providers (TSP), Telecom Equipment Manufacturer (TEM), BPO and others, which
includes non telecom vertical customers and the secondary segment is the geographical
segment by location of its customers.
HCL TECHNOLOGIES
Revenue: Rs 11792 Cr
HCL Technologies is a $5.2 billion global company bringing IT and engineering services
expertise under one roof to solve complex business problems for customers. It was
founded in 1991 and is currently headquartered in Noida, India and serves around 31
countries worldwide. It has a high resource base of around 90,190 employees. Shiv Nadar
and Anant Gupta lead the organization the former as the Chairman and the latter as the
CEO and President. HCL Technologies has made it on the Forbes Global 2000 list and is
one of Asias Fab 50 Companies. Employees first, Customer Second is its logo which
according to the company acts as an energy booster for its employees and hence helps
engaging its employees in a way that allows them to deliver business value whether it

involves enterprise application services, IT infrastructure management, custom application

services, engineering and R&D services, business services or enterprise transformation
services.
MPHASIS
Revenue: Rs 2433 Cr
Mphasis (then, Mphasis BFL Limited) was formed in June 2000 after the merger of the USbased IT consulting company MphasiS Corporation (founded in 1998) and the Indian IT
services company BFL Software Limited (founded in 1992).It is a Bangalore based IT
services company majority owned by Hewlett-Packard and is led by Mr. Balu Ganesh Ayyar
as CEO. It has offices in more than 19 countries and in India it is present in almost 11
locations. Consistently Mphasis has delivered superior global Infrastructure Technology
Outsourcing, Applications Services Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing
services through a combination of technology know-how, domain and process expertise.
The markets served by the company are financial services & insurance, healthcare,
manufacturing, government, transportation, communications, and consumer & retail
industries. In February 2014 the Mphasis Company changed its logo and the Brand Name
as Mphasis Unleash the Next as it seeks to boost business other than from parent HewlettPackard, currently its largest client. With around 50,000 employees this is a growing
company with a seemingly bright future.

ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES

Revenue: Rs 2396 Cr
Oracle Financial Services (founded in 1990) has headquarters in Mumbai, India. It is a
subsidiary of Oracle Corporation and claims to have more than 900 customers. Oracle
Financial Services Software has a strong global reach with a sales, marketing and support
presence in 27 overseas locations operating under four subsidiaries (Oracle Financial
Services Software, Inc. in the USA, Oracle Financial Services Software b.v. in The
Netherlands, Oracle Financial Services Software Pte. Ltd. in Singapore, and iPSL in India).
In addition, the Company is represented in over 85 countries through over 32 corporate
business partners. With employee strength of around 10,000 it has been entering into vast

domains of banking like Core Banking, Private Banking, and Lending etc. Oracle Financial
Services Software Limited has two main streams of business. The products division
(formerly called BPD Banking products Division) and Prime Sourcing. Recently, Oracle
Financial Services even launched products for Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment
Process, exposure management, enterprise performance management and energy and
commodity trading compliance.

MIND TREE
Revenue: Rs 2208 Cr
Mindtree (founded in 1999) is headquartered in Bangalore, India and has a corporate office
in New Jersey, USA. The company with its 13000+ employees is led by Mr. Subrorto Bagchi
and Mr. Krishnakumar Natarajan, the former as the Chairman and the latter as the CEO. The
two were also the founders of the company; they had the idea of starting up an IT services
company and were already, in some sense, industry icons with Bagchi being the chief
executive of Wipros R&D team and Natarajan being the chief executive of Wipros ecommerce division. Mindtree has been able to grow fast with around 28 offices located
across USA, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia,
Singapore, China, UAE and India. It follows a consulting driven approach and caters to over
of 40 Fortune 500 enterprises. The core services of the company are in the areas of Agile,
Digital, Analytics, Testing, Infrastructure Management and SAP.
POLARIS
Revenue: Rs 2208 Cr
Mindtree (founded in 1999) is headquartered in Bangalore, India and has a corporate office
in New Jersey, USA. The company with its 13000+ employees is led by Mr. Subrorto Bagchi
and Mr. Krishnakumar Natarajan, the former as the Chairman and the latter as the CEO. The
two were also the founders of the company; they had the idea of starting up an IT services
company and were already, in some sense, industry icons with Bagchi being the chief
executive of Wipros R&D team and Natarajan being the chief executive of Wipros ecommerce division. Mindtree has been able to grow fast with around 28 offices located
across USA, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia,

Singapore, China, UAE and India. It follows a consulting driven approach and caters to over
of 40 Fortune 500 enterprises. The core services of the company are in the areas of Agile,
Digital, Analytics, Testing, Infrastructure Management and SAP.

ROLTA INDIA
Revenue: Rs 1083 Cr
Rolta India (founded in 1989) is headquartered in Mumbai, India and is led by Mr. Kamal K
Singh as the current CEO and Managing Director. The company has various branches in
various parts of India (Mumbai and Gurgaon) and Canada. Rolta employs around 5000
professionals and has a countrywide infrastructure and international subsidiaries across
the globe. Services provided by Rolta India include geospatial engineering design such as
plant design and mechanical design solutions and services, plant information management
services and engineering design services for ship building and other applications,
eSecurity services and solutions along with software development services such as high
end games development and software testing. Recently Rolta India Ltd. had won a $31
million contract from Memphis Light gas and Water (MLGW) to provide consulting, systems
integration and software services to the largest three-service municipal utility in the US.

TOP 10 SOFTWARE COMPANIES

MICROSOFT
Microsoft Corporation is the most valuable IT company in the world and it offers wide range
of software products, hardware devices and services. The company also offers training to
computer system integrators and developers. It was founded in 1975, when Bill Gates and
Paul Allen developed an interpreter for programming language at Micro Instrumentation
and Telemetry Systems. Now it is headquartered in Redmond, Washington and it has 99,000
employees.
After the change in organisational structure in July 2013, the company has five operating
segments: Devices and Consumer hardware, Devices and Consumer licensing, Devices
and Consumer other, commercial licensing and commercial other. Devices and Consumer

hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, its
subscription and PC accessories and video game royalties. Devices and Consumer
licensing segment offers Windows OS and related software, their licensing, Windows
original equipment manufacturing licensing and Microsoft office products for consumers.
Resale of Windows store, Xbox live transaction, Windows phone store and advertising are
the operating areas of Devices and Consumer other segment. Its commercial segments
provide software and services for increasing the productivity and efficiency of
organisations, teams and individuals.
Microsoft Corporation has robust presence in software industry across the globe with
offices in more than 100 countries. Its 16 businesses generate more than 1 billion revenue.

ORACLE CORPORATION
Oracle Corporation is the second most valuable company in IT industry. The company
provides enterprise software, computer hardware products and services. It operates across
Middle East, Europe, Americas and Africa, and Asia Pacific regions. It is headquartered in
Redwood Shores, California and it has 1,20,000 employees.
In 1977 Larry Ellison, Robert Miner, Bruce Scott and Edward Oates established Oracle as a
System Development Laboratories. In 1982, the company changed its name to Oracle
Systems, now it is known as Oracle Corporation. Oracle has three business segments:
software, hardware systems and services. Software segment provides wide range of
software products which is designed to operate on both clustered server like cloud and
single server. It also gives licences to customer with right to upgrade the software products
and maintenance releases. Hardware segment provides different hardware systems and
related services. The service segment offer cloud services, consulting services and
educations services.
Diversified geographical presence across 145 countries and strong customer base are
Oracles core strength. The company adopted inorganic growth strategy and acquired
number of companies for portfolio diversification.

SAP AG
SAP AG is a leading software company in the world which provides licenses for enterprise
application software products, solutions, and cloud subscriptions. In 1972, former IBM
engineers established SAP as a data processing company. In 1998 it was listed on the New
York Stock Exchange. Now it has operations over 180 countries across Middle East and
Africa, Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific Japan. It is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany
and it has 66,572 employees.
SAP mainly has two business divisions: on premise and cloud. The on premise division
provides on premise software, mobile software and services related to this software. The
cloud segment offers cloud software and related services like support services,
professional services and educational services.
SAP offers approximately 25 industry specific solutions and follows a vertical strategy. It
has 11,500 partners all over the world.

VM WARE inc.
VMware Inc. engaged in offering virtualization and virtualization based cloud infrastructure
solutions. The company is founded in 1988 and its major operation regions are Middle East,
Africa, US , Asia Pacific, Europe and Canada. It is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and
it has 14,300 employees.
VMwares virtualization technological solution can be categorised into two product group:
cloud infrastructure and management, and end-user computing. Cloud infrastructure and
management products consists of VMware vSphere, the companys data center platform,
which can be used to aggregate multiple servers, convert the storage infrastructure and
networks into shared pool of resources. Its end user computing solution is use for
ensuring secure access to application and data from a different devices and locations.
VMware also offers loud application platform solutions for running and managing
enterprise applications.

VMware has served more than 500,000 customers. Pat Gelsinger is the present CEO and
Joseph M. Tucci is the Chairman of the company.

SYMENTIC CORPRRATION
Symantec Corporation provides solutions relating to security, storage and systems
management to customers for managing their business and identities. In 1982, Gary
Hendrix was established Symantec Corporation and it went to public in 1989. It mainly
operates in U.S. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California and it has 21,500
employees.
Symantec Corporation has four business segments: Security and compliance, storage and
server management, consumer and services. Security and compliance segment provides
solutions for security, authentication and encryption of data. This segment also offers
solutions for data loss prevention, threat and risk management and infrastructure
protection. Its storage and server management segment provides solutions relating to
information management and standardising storage management. Consumer segment
provides different security software like Norton Internet Security, Norton AntiVirus, Norton
Live Services, Norton Online Backup, Norton 360, Norton Mobile Security, and Norton One
and Norton 360 Everywhere. Service segment provides services and solutions to
customers for getting most out of their Symantec software.
ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
Adobe Systems Incorporated is a leading diversified software company in the world. It was
founded by Charles Geschke and John Warnock in 1982. In 1983, the company was
originally incorporated in California and in 1997, was reincorporated in Delaware. It is
headquartered in San Jose, California and it has 11,847 employees. Americas, Europe,
Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia are the companys main working regions.
Diversified geographical presence in the world is the core strength of the company.
The company provides wide varieties of products and services which can be use in
multiple operating systems, devices and multimedia. Adobe Systems has two business
segments: Digital marketing and digital media. Digital media segment provides different
tools like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, and Adobe InDesign etc. to individuals and

customers for generating and promoting their contents. This is Adobes core business
segment. Digital marketing segment provides different software which helps in digital
advertising and marketing within different channels.
INTUIT
Intuit Inc. provides software tools which help the customers to solve the major business
and financial management problems. It has operations in United States, Canada, the United
Kingdom, Australia, India and Singapore. It is serving around 45 million people across
these regions. Intuit is headquartered in Mountain View, California and it has 8,000
employees.
Scott Cook and Tom Proulx incorporated Intuit in 1984. Its first product was a financial
software under the brand name Quicken. In 1993, it became a public company by offering
IPO on the NASDAQ. It has mainly three business segments: Small Business Group, Tax,
and Other Businesses. Small business group provides business and financial management
software like QuickBooks, payroll services and payment solutions. Other business
segment provides software for personal use like Quicken and Mint. Tax segment offers
software that helps individuals and small business group for preparing income tax related
documents. The company continuously introduced new products by innovation, which
helps the customers to do their work easily. Intuit showed a strong financial performance in
recent years.
CA TECHNOLOGIES
CA Technologies is leading IT company in the world, which offers solutions and software
that help customers to manage their IT environment. Its customers include all type of
organisations. So many fortune 500 companies depend on CA technologies for their IT
work. In 1976, Russ Artzt and Charles B.Wang was founded the company. US and Europe
are its major working regions.
CA Technologies has three business segments: mainframe solutions, enterprise solutions
and services. Mainframe segment provides applications and services to largest customers
of the company to help them to manage their mainframe as a part of whole enterprise.
Enterprise solution segment offers solutions to organisation for their non-mainframe IT
platforms. Service segment help the customer to develop their IT infrastructure.

The company is giving priorities to three things: Execution, Innovation and Speed. So the
company is strongly concentrating on research and development. It has spent $490 million,
$510 million, and $471 million respectively in the financial years 2013, 2012 and 2011.
AMEDEUS IT HOLDING
Amadeus IT Holdings provides technological solutions to its customers. Its customers are
mainly different organisations from travel sector, including travel agencies, ground
handlers, corporations, hotels, airlines, railways, airports, car rental companies and ferry
operators. It has footprint in 195 countries and it has more than 11,000 employees. It is
headquartered in Madrid, Spain and listed in Spanish stock exchange.
Amadeus IT Holdings was founded on 1987. Lufthansa, Air France, Iberia, and SAS decided
to form a new global distribution system, which now called Amadeus IT Holdings. It
became a public company in 1999.
Amadeus IT Holdings has two major business segments: Global distribution system and IT
solutions. Global distribution system provides different type of services to travel providers
and travel agencies like booking, ticketing, searching, pricing etc. It solution segment
provides software to travel companies for making their different processes automatic and
more efficient.
The company is constantly focusing on innovation. It invested 14.2% of its revenue in R&D
HCL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
HCL Technologies Limited is one of the best IT companies in India. It offers wide range of
software, infrastructure servicing and business process outsourcing. HCL was founded in
1976 and now it has footprint in 31 countries in the world. Diversified portfolio of services
and strong customer base are its major strength. It is headquartered in Noida, India and it
has 85,505 employees.
The company has three business segments: software services, infrastructure services and
business process outsourcing services. Engineering and R&D services, Custom
application services and enterprise applications services are the subcategories of the
software segment. Infrastructure segment provides services to organisations in chemical,
energy and utility, life science, consumer electronics, banking, financial services,

consumer

product

goods,

hi-tech,

insurance,

healthcare

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pharmaceuticals,

manufacturing, media, telecom and tourism industries. This segment offers data centre
services, cross-functional services, cloud computing services, information security
services, end user computing services, network services and system integration services.
Business process outsourcing segment offers next generation BPO services to its clients.
QUESTIONS
1.Which organization is built on the 'Hub and Spoke model' for the development of the
Information Technology industry in Kerala ?
Ans:Infopark
2.This is a communication system that transfers data between components inside a
computer, or between computers. What is it ? [hint:simple 3 letter answer]
Ans:bus
3.This company is one of the sponsers of FIFA 2014 worldcup. The name of the company is
derived from Latin word "Sonus", which means sound.Which company ?
Ans:Sony
4.Which website from Sunshine Press proudly says "We Open Governments" ?
Ans: Wikileaks
5.We all have heard about microSD cards. What does SD stands for ?
Ans: Secure Digital
6.Which online portal gets its name from Arabian Nights ? [hint:They were in news recently
for making billions in US]
Ans:Alibaba.com
7.What is this ?
Ans:Android Garden(even Android will give you marks)
8.What is the unit of movement of computer mouse called ?
Ans:Mickey
9.Which business social networking site was created by Konstantin Guericke and Jean-Luc
Vaillant ? [hint:these are the names of unpopular founders of the site]
Ans:LinkedIn
10.TCS sponsors which marathon in Netherlands ?
Ans:Amsterdam Marathon
11.Who replaced S.D Shibulal as the CEO of Infosys ?
Ans:Vishal Sikka
12.In which games does Jake,Tricky and Fresh tries to escape from InspectorBroodibus
and his dog ?
Ans:Subway Surfers
13.Originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial release was called

"Presenter", developed by Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin.How do we know it today ?

Ans:Microsoft Powerpoint
14.How do we better know Anderson Consulting ?
Ans:Accenture
15.What was founded by four Israeli partners: Talmon Marco, Igor Megzinik, Sani Maroli and
Ofer Smocha, with Talmon Marco as its CEO.[hint:It helps to make free calls]
Ans:Viber
16.This book is about which of the founders of Microsoft ?
Ans:Paul Allen
17.Identify

Ans:OLX
18.He is Christopher Poole , which comic site did he create ?
Ans:4Chan
19.Which Multi-National Compnay did they found ?
Ans:Cisco
20.Identify

Ans:Tencent