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Introduction

Information Technology (IT) is defined as the design, development, implementation and management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. Today, it has grown to cover most aspects of computing and technology. The reason why it has catapulted in importance is due to the improving accessibility, awareness and utility of technology. It is a common fact that a country’s IT potential is paramount for its march towards global competitiveness, healthy GDP and defense capabilities.

IT professionals perform a variety of duties ranging from data management, networking, engineering computer hardware, database and software design, to the management and administration of entire systems. With the already high penetration of conventional personal computer and network technology, coupled with the growing convergence of information, communication and entertainment, the industry is now keenly focused on the integration with other technologies such as mobile phones, automobiles and televisions etc, thereby increasing the demand for such jobs. The largest firms globally include IBM, HP, Dell and .

In India, it is important to make the distinction between IT and ITES (IT enabled services). We shall focus on the IT industry here by limiting the discussion to electronics hardware manufacturing and software development and services.

Despite the unprecedented global economic downturn, the Indian IT industry has weathered the storm well, and will achieve sustainable growth going forward. India is expected to witness an average 8% salary increase in 2010 and ~50% of companies have strong hiring plans, according to a survey by global HR consultancy , giving yet another indication of the high confidence levels among the country’s corporate houses after the economy staged a faster-than-expected recovery from the slowdown.

While the larger players continue to lead growth, gradually increasing their share in the industry aggregate, several high-performing small and medium enterprises have also stood out.

Growth Potential

The strong demand for electronic hardware and software in India has been fuelled by a variety of drivers including the high growth rate of the economy, emergence of a vast domestic market catering to the new generation of young consumers, a thriving middleclass populace with increasing disposable incomes and a relatively low-cost work force having advanced technical skills.

Indeed, the Government has also identified growth of this sector as a thrust area as there remains great expectation for significant growth given the fairly low levels of penetration of technology among the 1.1 billion population; There were only 60 million Internet users in 2009, 7 million DVD players and personal computers were sold in 2008-09, and 11 million new mobile subscribers were added every month in the same period. In this scenario there is now a big opportunity to step up the production to gain higher global share besides meeting the domestic demands.

The Indian IT sector has also built a strong reputation for its high standards of software development ability, service quality and information security in the foreign market- which has been acknowledged globally and has helped enhance buyer confidence. The industry continues its drive to set global benchmarks in quality and information security through a combination of provider and industry-level initiatives and strengthening the overall frameworks, creating greater awareness and facilitating wider adoption of standards and best practices.

Future Prospects

The industry is likely to continue growing from strength to strength, as local players incorporate best in class practices from global counterparts whilst retaining their edge in terms of lower cost of labor and focused governmental investments.

New graduates with degrees in related fields such as electrical engineering and computer science can hope to achieve significant professional growth and a healthy remuneration from companies looking to hire the best talent available, given the high proportion for those who leave to pursue jobs in this sector overseas. Industry and organizations

A great variety of software companies and programmers in the world comprise the software industry. Software can be quite a profitable industry: , the founder of Microsoft was the richest person in the world in 2009 largely by selling the and software products. The same goes for Larry Ellison, largely through his Oracle database software. Through time the software industry has become increasingly specialized.

Non-profit software organizations include the Free Software Foundation, GNU Project and Mozilla Foundation. Software standard organizations like the W3C, IETF develop software standards so that most software can interoperate through standards such as XML, HTML, HTTP or FTP.

Other well-known large software companies include Novell, SAP, Symantec, Adobe Systems, and Corel, while small companies often provide innovation

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is a public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system (OS) market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of OSs. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Microsoft would come to dominate other markets as well, notably the office suite market with Microsoft Office.

Primarily in the 1990s, critics contend the company used monopolistic business practices and anti-competitive strategies including refusal to deal and tying, put unreasonable restrictions in the use of its software, and used misrepresentative marketing tactics; both the U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission found the company in violation of antitrust laws. Known for its interviewing process with off-the-wall questions such as "Why is a manhole cover round?", various studies and ratings were generally favorable to Microsoft's diversity within the company as well as its overall environmental impact with the exception of the electronics portion of the business.

Microsoft Board of Directors

• : Chief Executive Officer • : Former Chief Financial Officer, JPMorgan Chase • Bill Gates : Chairman • Raymond V. Gilmartin : Former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Merck & Co., Inc. • Reed Hastings : Founder, Chairman and CEO, Netflix, Inc. • Maria M. Klawe : President, Harvey Mudd College • David F. Marquardt : General Partner, August Capital • Charles H. NoskiExecutive : Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Bank of America Corporation • Dr. : Former Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG

History

Paul Allen and Bill Gates (respectively) on October 19, 1981 in a sea of PCs after signing a pivotal contract. IBM called Microsoft in July 1980 inquiring about programming languages for its upcoming PC line; after failed negotiations with another company, IBM gave Microsoft a contract to develop the OS for the new line of PCs. and Bill Gates, childhood friends with a passion in computer programming, were seeking to make a successful business utilizing their shared skills. The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems's (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer. Allen noticed that they could program a BASIC interpreter for the device; after a call from Gates claiming to have a working interpreter, MITS requested a demonstration. Since they didn't actually have one, Allen worked on a simulator for the Altair while Gates developed the interpreter. Although they developed the interpreter on a simulator and not the actual device, the interpreter worked flawlessly when they demonstrated the interpreter to MITS in Albuquerque, New Mexico in March 1975; MITS agreed to distribute it, marketing it as Altair BASIC.[3] They officially established Microsoft on April 4, 1975 with Gates as the CEO.[4] In August 1977 the company formed an agreement with ASCII Magazine in Japan, resulting in its first international office, "ASCII Microsoft".The company moved to a new home in Bellevue, Washington in January 1979.

Microsoft entered the OS business in 1980 with its own version of Unix, called Xenix.[6] However, it was DOS (Disk Operating System) that solidified the company's dominance. After negotiations with Digital Research failed, IBM awarded a contract to Microsoft to provide a version of the CP/M OS, which was set to be used in the upcoming IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC). For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, branding it as MS-DOS, which IBM rebranded to PC-DOS. Following the release of the IBM PC in August 1981, Microsoft secured the marketing rights to MS-DOS. Since IBM copyrighted the IBM PC BIOS, other companies had to reverse engineer it in order for other OSes to run, resulting in IBM PC compatibles. Due to various factors, such as MS-DOS's available software selection, Microsoft eventually became the leading PC OS vendor.The company expanded into new markets with the release of the in 1983, as well as a publishing division named . Paul Allen resigned from Microsoft in February after developing Hodgkin's disease.

Windows and Office

While jointly developing a new OS with IBM in 1985, OS/2, Microsoft released Microsoft Windows, a graphical extension for MS-DOS, on November 20. Microsoft moved its headquarters to Redmond on February 26, 1986, and on March 13 the company went public; the ensuing rise in the stock would make an estimated four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Due to the partnership with IBM, in 1990 the Federal Trade Commission set its eye on Microsoft for possible collusion; it marked the beginning of over a decade of legal clashes with the U.S. Government. Microsoft announced the release of its version of OS/2 to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) on April 2, 1987; meanwhile, the company was at work on a 32-bit operating system, Microsoft Windows NT, using ideas from OS/2; it shipped on July 21, 1993 with a new modular kernel and the Win32 application programming interface (API), making porting from 16-bit (MS-DOS-based) Windows easier. Once Microsoft informed IBM of NT, the OS/2 partnership deteriorated. Microsoft introduced its office suite, Microsoft Office, in 1990. The software bundled separate office productivity applications, such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. On May 22 Microsoft launched Windows 3.0 with a streamlined user interface graphics and improved protected mode capability for the Intel 386 processor. Both Office and Windows became dominant in their respective areas. Novell, a Word competitor from 1984–1986, filed a lawsuit years later claiming that Microsoft left part of its APIs undocumented in order to gain a competitive advantage.

Digital distribution and Vista Bill Gates handed over the CEO position on January 13, 2000 to Steve Ballmer, an old college friend of Gates and employee of the company since 1980, creating a new position for himself as Chief Software Architect. In an interview about his management style in 2005, he mentioned that his first priority was to get the people he delegates to in order. Ballmer also emphasized the need to continue pursue new technologies even if initial attempts fail, citing the original attempts with Windows as an example.

Released in January 2007, the next version of Windows, Windows Vista, focused on features, security, and a redesigned user interface dubbed Aero. Microsoft Office 2007, released at the same time, featured a "Ribbon" user interface which was a significant departure from its predecessors. Relatively strong sales of both titles helped to produce a record profit in 2007. The European Union imposed another fine of €899 million ($1.4 billion) for Microsoft's lack of compliance with the March 2004 judgment on February 27, 2008, saying that the company charged rivals unreasonable prices for key information about its workgroup and backoffice servers. Microsoft stated that it was in compliance and that "these fines are about the past issues that have been resolved".

Bill Gates retired from his role as Chief Software Architect on June 27, 2008 while retaining other positions related to the company in addition to being an advisor for the company on key projects. On February 12, 2009, Microsoft announced its intent to open a chain of Microsoft-branded retail stores, and on October 22, 2009 the first retail opened in Scottsdale, Arizona; the same day the first store opened Windows 7 was officially released to the public. Windows 7's focus was on refining Vista with ease of use features and performance enhancements, rather than a large reworking of Windows.

Product divisions

• Windows & Division, Server and Tools, Online Services Division • Business Division, Entertainment and Devices Division

Products

• Bing • 8 • Microsoft Advertising • All Office Products • All Windows Products • Microsoft Security Essentials • Windows Live • Cloud Services

Business Software

• Bing Maps • • CRM • Microsoft Dynamics ERP • Microsoft Forefront • • Microsoft Online Services • Windows Small Business Server

Design & User Experience

• Microsoft Expression •

Developer Tools

• .NET Framework • ASP.NET • MSDN Subscriptions • Robotics Developer Studio • • Visual C • Visual C# • Visual Studio • XNA • Developer Centers

Entertainment

• DirectX • Microsoft • MSN • MSN Games • MSNBC • PC Gaming • Center • Home • Xbox Live • Hardware

• All PC Hardware • Digital Communications • Microsoft • Mouse & Keyboard Products • PC Gaming Hardware • Xbox Gaming

Home & Educational Software

• AutoCollage • HealthVault • Money • MSN Direct • MSN Internet Access • Office Home & Student • Songsmith • Streets & Trips • Windows Home Server • Works • WorldWide Telescope

Macintosh

• All Macintosh Products • Mac Expression • Mac Mouse & Keyboard Products • Mac Office

Mobile Devices & Software

• Microsoft My Phone • Microsoft Tag • Mobile Software Catalog • Ultra-Mobile PC • Windows Live Mobile • Windows Phone • Devices

Servers

• All Server Products • BizTalk Server • Exchange Server • Server Trials • SharePoint Server • SQL Server •

Public Type NYSE: ACN Industry Technology services Outsourcing Founded 1989 (as Andersen Consulting) Headquarters Ireland Area served Worldwide William D. Green Key people (Chairman) & (CEO)

[1] Revenue ▼ US$ 21.58 billion (2009)

[2] Operating income ▼ US$ 2.643 billion (2009)

[2] Net income ▼ US$ 1.589 billion (2009)

[2] Total assets ▲ US$ 12.255 billion (2009)

[2] Total equity ▲ US$ 2.886 billion (2009)

Employees 190,000 (2010) Website .com

Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) is a global management consulting, technology consulting and technology outsourcing company. Previously incorporated in Bermuda, since 1 September 2009 the company has been incorporated in Ireland with its global headquarters located in Chicago.[3] It is said to be the largest in the world, as well as being a global player within the technology consulting industry.[4] Accenture is a Fortune Global 500 company.[5] As of 2010, the company has over 190,000 employees in 200 locations in over 120 countries.[4][6] Accenture's current clients include 96 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three quarters of the Fortune Global 500.

For the fiscal year ended 31 August 2009, the company generated net revenues of US$21.

Management Details.

William D. Green : Chairman & CEO Jo Deblaere : Chief Operating Officer

Pamela J. Craig : Chief Financial Officer

Kevin M. Campbell : Group Chief Executive—Technology

Gianfranco Casati : Group Chief Executive—Products

Martin I. Cole : Group Chief Executive— Communications &High Tech

Shawn Collinson : Managing Director—Industries & Market Innovation

Karl-Heinz Floether : Chief Strategy & Corporate Development Officer

Mark Foster : Group Chief Executive—Global Markets and Management Consulting

Harsh Manglik : Chairman & Geography Managing Director– India

History

Formation and early years

Accenture originated as the business and technology consulting division of accounting firm . The division's origins are in a 1953 feasibility study for General Electric. GE asked Arthur Andersen to automate payroll processing and manufacturing at GE's Appliance Park facility near Louisville, Kentucky. Arthur Andersen recommended installation of a UNIVAC I computer and printer, which resulted in the first commercially owned computer installation in the United States in 1954. Joe Glickauf was Arthur Andersen's project leader responsible for the payroll processing automation project. Now considered to be the father of computer consulting, Glickauf headed Arthur Andersen's Administrative Services division for 12 years.

Splitting from Arthur Andersen

In 1989, that division split from Arthur Andersen and began using the name Andersen Consulting. Both Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting consisted of groups of locally-owned independent partnerships and other entities around the world, each in a contractual agreement with Andersen Worldwide Société Coopérative (AWSC), a Swiss administrative entity. By 2000, Andersen Consulting had achieved net revenues exceeding US$9.5 billion and had more than 75,000 employees in 47 countries,[7] whereas Arthur Andersen had revenues of US$9.3 billion with over 85,000 employees worldwide in 2001.

Through the 1990s there was increasing tension between Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen. Andersen Consulting was upset that it was paying Arthur Andersen up to 15% of its profits each year (a condition of the 1989 split was that the more profitable unit - AA or AC - paid the other this sum), while at the same time Arthur Andersen was competing with Andersen Consulting through its own newly established business consulting service line called Arthur Andersen Business Consulting. This dispute came to a head in 1998 when Andersen Consulting claimed breach of contract against AWSC and Arthur Andersen. Andersen Consulting put the 15% transfer payment for that year and future years into escrow and issued a claim for breach of contract. In August 2000, as a result of a conclusion of the International Chamber of Commerce, Andersen Consulting broke all contractual ties with AWSC and Arthur Andersen. As part of the arbitration settlement, Andersen Consulting paid over the sum held in escrow (then $1.2 billion) to Arthur Andersen, and was required to change its name, resulting in the entity being renamed Accenture.

Perhaps most telling about who had "won" the decision was that four hours after the arbitrator made his ruling, Arthur Andersen CEO Jim Wadia suddenly resigned. Industry analysts and business school professors alike viewed the event as a complete victory for Andersen Consulting.[8] Jim Wadia would provide insight on his resignation years later at a Harvard Business school case activity about the split. It turned out that the Arthur Andersen board passed a resolution saying he had to resign if he didn't get at least an incremental $4 billion (either through negotiation or via the arbitrator decision) for the consulting practice to split off; hence his quick resignation once the decision was announced.

Accounts vary on why the split occurred — executives on both sides of the split cite greed and arrogance on the part of the other side, and executives on the Andersen Consulting side maintained breach of contract when Arthur Andersen created a second consulting group, AABC (Arthur Andersen Business Consulting) which began to compete directly with Andersen Consulting in the marketplace. Many of the AABC firms were bought out by other consulting companies in 2002, most notably, and KPMG Consulting, which later changed its name to BearingPoint.

Andersen Consulting's change of name proved to be fortunate as it avoided the taint when Arthur Andersen was effectively dissolved as a result of its role in the .

Emergence of Accenture

On January 1, 2001 Andersen Consulting adopted its current name, "Accenture". The word "Accenture" is supposedly derived from "Accent on the future". Although a marketing consultancy was tasked with finding a new name for the company, the name "Accenture" was submitted by Kim Petersen, a Danish employee from the company's Oslo, Norway office, as a result of an internal competition. Accenture felt that the name should represent its will to be a global consulting leader and high performer, and also intended that the name should not be offensive in any country in which Accenture operates.

Place of Incorporation Change

Accenture announced on May 26, 2009 that its Board of Directors unanimously approved changing the company’s place of incorporation to Ireland from Bermuda and would become Accenture plc.

The company cited several reasons for the change:

• Ireland's sophisticated, well-developed corporate, legal and regulatory environment • Ireland's long history of international investment and long-established commercial relationships, trade agreements and tax treaties with European Union member states, the United States and other countries where Accenture does business • Ireland's stable political and economic environment with the financial and legal infrastructure to meet Accenture's needs

The change was approved and became effective on September 1, 2009, the beginning of the company's 2010 fiscal year.

While Ireland is the company's headquarters for tax and legal purposes, much of the administration actually occurs in New York City and Chicago, two of its largest offices worldwide.

Former Bermuda incorporation

In October 2002, the Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) identified Accenture as one of four publicly-traded federal contractors that were incorporated in a tax haven country.[11] The other three, unlike Accenture, were incorporated in the United States before they re-incorporated in a tax haven country, thereby lowering their U.S. taxes. Still, critics[who?] have panned Accenture's incorporation in Bermuda, generally because they viewed Accenture as having been a U.S.-based company trying to avoid U.S. taxes.[12] The GAO itself did not characterize Accenture as having been a U.S.-based company; it stated that "prior to incorporating in Bermuda, Accenture was operating as a series of related partnerships and corporations under the control of its partners through the mechanism of contracts with a Swiss coordinating entity." Subsidiaries

An Accenture building at Reston Town Center • Coritel BPM is the Spanish subsidiary of Accenture for software development and outsourcing. It was founded in 1984 and currently has 6,500 workers.

• began as a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture, but is now well over 80% owned by Accenture. It provides IT consulting services and solutions for the Microsoft software platform.

• Navitaire is a subsidiary of Accenture, providing specialized solutions to airlines.

• Accenture National Security Services is a subsidiary of Accenture that provides services directly to United States government in the national-security space. Its customers include the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and other agencies that focus on national defense and law enforcement. This Accenture subsidiary was specifically incorporated as a US subsidiary to meet a congressional mandate that defense contractors be based in the US.

• Accenture Defense Group is a subsidiary of Accenture, providing document management services, information technology software systems and business process improvement strategies. Clients are multinational governments, government suppliers of "WarFighter" goods and services, corporations, and also include transnational organisations such as the European Space Agency.[13][14]

• Accenture Technology Solutions is a subsidiary of Accenture, providing technology solutions to the client. The solutions work is mainly offshored to low- wage developing countries like India, The Philippines and Romania - Accenture India Delivery Centre, Accenture Delivery Centers in the Philippines and Accenture Bucharest Delivery Center.

• Accenture SAP Solutions is a subsidiary of Accenture, providing SAP computer software to clients. It has taken Coritel BPM SAP resources and turned it into a new unit called: ASAPS.

• Digiplug is a subsidiary of Accenture, providing digital supply chain solutions to the entertainment industry. Based in France and founded in 1998, Digiplug supplies music and video manufacturing and delivery services to major music labels as well as wireless carriers and mobile terminal device manufacturers around the world.

Products and services offered by the company:

o Aerospace & Defense o Airline o Automotive o Banking o Border Management o Building Materials o Capital Markets o Chemicals o Communications o Consumer Goods and Services o Customs o Defense o Education o Electronics and High Tech o Energy o Financial Services o Forest Products o Freight and Logistics o Health & Public Service o Human Services o Industrial Equipment o Insurance o Life Sciences o Media and Entertainment o Metals o Mining o Nonprofit o Postal o Public Safety o Public Transportation o Retail o Revenue o Travel o Utilities

WIPRO Management Details

Chairperson - Azim Premji MD - Azim H Premji Directors - Anurag Behar, Ashok Ganguly, Azim H Premji, Azim Premji, B C Prabhakar, Bill Owens, Girish S Paranjpe, Henning Kagermann, Jagdish N Seth, Jagdish N Sheth, N Vaghul, , P M Sinha, Pratik Kumar, Priya Mohan Sinha, Suresh C Senapaty, Suresh Senpaty, Suresh Vaswani, V Ramachandran, Vineet Agrawal

Girish S. Paranjpe Jt. CEO, IT Business Member of the Board Wipro Limited Suresh Vaswani Jt. CEO, IT Business Member of the Board Wipro Limited

Vertical Business Units Anand Padmanabhan, Bhanumurthy B. M., G. K. Prasanna, Mark Fleming, N. S. Bala, Rajiv Shah, Soumitro Ghosh Service Lines Ashutosh Vaidya, Ayan Mukerji, Deepak Jain, Gangadharaiah C. P., Kirk Strawser, K. R. Sanjiv, Sangita Singh, Srinivas Pallia

HISTORY Wipro Ltd., the flagship company of the Azim H Premji group was incorporated in the year 1945. The company started off originally as a manufacturer of vegetable ghee/vanaspati, refined edible oils etc. Gradually the company has diversified into various other businesses.

Today Wipro Limited is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally. Wipro provides comprehensive IT solutions and services, including systems integration, Information Systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance, and research and development services to corporations globally.

In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations.

Wipro's ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange, among others.

Wipro is the leading strategic IT partner for companies across India, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific - offering integrated IT solutions. They plan, deploy, sustain and maintain your IT lifecycle through their total outsourcing, consulting services, business solutions and . Wipro InfoTech helps you drive momentum in your organisation - no matter what domain you are in.

Backed by their strong quality processes and rich experience managing global clients across various business verticals, they align IT strategies to your business goals. Along with their best of breed technology partners, Wipro InfoTech also helps you with your hardware and IT infrastructure needs.

The various accreditations that they have achieved for every service they offer reflect their commitment towards quality assurance. Wipro InfoTech was the first global software company to achieve Level 5 SEI-CMM, the world's first IT Company to achieve Six Sigma, as well as the world's first company to attain Level 5 PCMM.

Their continuing success in executing projects is a result of their stringent implementation of quality processes. Deploying quality frameworks to align with your business will give you the benefit of a smooth and transparent transition while providing complete IT lifecycle management. Reliability and perfection are a result of their adherence to these quality benchmarks and this has been their key differentiator while helping drive your business momentum.

The company’s experience and expertise are measured against globally recognized standards to ensure their commitment in delivering competitive solutions to their customers. Wipro InfoTech epitomises quality by maintaining high standards in service offerings and products, as well as internal processes and people management. They believe in constantly scaling quality standards by expanding our efficiency in all areas beyond their IT offerings.

Different people perceive innovation in various ways. At Wipro InfoTech, their innovative thinking helps them adopt newer business lines and offerings based on your business expectations. They have adapted to the changes brought about by technology and business and this has helped us improve customer experience through service delivery and process optimisation.

Different divisions of the company:

Wipro Technologies - Wipro Technologies is the global IT services business division of Wipro Limited. With over 20 offices around the world, Wipro Technologies is the No.1 provider of integrated business, technology and process solutions on a global delivery platform.

Wipro Infotech- Wipro Infotech is the leading strategic IT partner for companies across India, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific - offering integrated IT solutions. We plan, deploy, sustain and maintain your IT lifecycle through our total outsourcing, consulting services, business solutions and professional services.

Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting- Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting, a business unit of Wipro Limited, has a profitable presence in the branded retail market of toilet soaps, hair care soaps, baby care products and lighting products. It is also a leader in institutional lighting in specified segments like software, pharma and retail. Wipro Infrastructure Engineering - Wipro Infrastructure Engineering was Wipro Limited’s first diversification in 1975, which addressed the hydraulic equipment requirements of mobile original equipment manufacturers in India. Over the past 25 years, the Wipro Infrastructure Engineering business unit has become a leader in the Hydraulic Cylinders and Truck Tipping Systems markets in India, and intends growing its business to serve the global manufacturing requirements of Hydraulic Cylinders and Truck Tippers.

Wipro GE Medical Systems - Wipro GE Medical Systems is a joint venture between Wipro and General Electric Company. As a part of GE Medical Systems South Asia, it caters to customer and patient needs with a commitment to uncompromising quality. Wipro GE is India’s largest exporter of medical systems, with unmatched distribution and service reach in South Asia. Wipro GE pioneered the manufacture of Ultrasound and Computed Tomography systems in India and is a supplier for all GE Medical Systems products and services in South Asia.

Products and services offered by the company:

Wipro is having its presence across various verticals viz;

• Wipro Personal Computing Products • Enterprise Products • Software Products and Licenses

Business Technology Services Bridge between IT applications and business transformation. Enterprise Application Services Transform your business with the right process enablers. Infrastructure Management Services Step up the pace in your technology innovation. Business Process Outsourcing Bring flexibility and cost effectiveness into your business. Consulting Think ahead with the right strategic insights.

Testing Services Ensure that your ultimate output remains final. Product Engineering Services Define, manage, study and execute ideas that matter. Enterprise Technology Integration Adapt to the evolving technology landscape. Total Outsourcing Achieve maximum value through managed requirements.

What Wipro Does: transforming your business Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), is amongst the largest global IT services, BPO and Product Engineering companies. In addition to the IT business, Wipro also has leadership position in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting solutions. The company has been listed since 1945 and started its technology business in 1980. Today, Wipro generates USD 6 billion (India GAAP figure 2009-10) of annual revenues. Its equity shares are listed in India on the Mumbai Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange; as well as on the New York Stock Exchange in the US.

Wipro makes an ideal partner for organizations looking at transformational IT solutions because of its core capabilities, great human resources, commitment to quality and the global infrastructure to deliver a wide range of technology and business consulting solutions and services, 24/7. Wipro enables business results by being a ‘transformation catalyst’. It offers integrated portfolio of services to its clients in the areas of Consulting, System Integration and Outsourcing for key-industry verticals.

Leadership at Wipro: building trust With more than 100,000 associates from over 70 nationalities and 72 plus global delivery centers in over 55 countries, Wipro’s services span financial services, retail, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare services, energy and utilities, technology, telecom and media.

Wipro’s unwavering focus has been on business transformation with matchless innovation in service delivery and business models. More than 800 active clients that include governments, educational institutes, utility services, and over 150 Global Fortune 500 enterprises have benefited from this approach.

Innovation at Wipro: delivering enhanced business performance Wipro is at the forefront of technological and business co-innovation with 136 patents and invention disclosures. With enhanced business performance at the core of its deliveries due to its strong R&D and Innovation focus, Wipro gets an enviable 95 percent repeat business.

We make our clients business more efficient through a combination of process transformation, outsourcing, consulting and technology products and services. As the world’s first SEI CMM Level 5 Company, Wipro endeavors to deliver reliability and effectiveness to its customers by maintaining high standards in service offerings through robust internal processes and people management systems.

One of the world’s largest third party R&D services provider, Wipro caters to product engineering requirements in multiple domains. Most of the technology that you come across in daily life - airplanes, automobile navigation systems, cell phones, computing servers, drug delivery devices, microwaves, printers, refrigerators, set top boxes, TVs - will find a Wipro component in them. Our service portfolio includes product strategy and architecture, application and embedded software, electronic and mechanical hardware, system testing, compliance and certification and product sustenance and support.

Wipro believes that certain core technologies have a significant impact on business competitiveness going forward. Towards that direction, Wipro’s Research and Development activity is currently focused on Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Green Technologies, Mobility Applications, Social Computing, Information Management and Security.

World over, businesses are transforming constantly, in order to get better and better. Wipro provides the right insight, technology and support to help businesses transform, making business functions simpler, faster and better. In other words, Wipro transforms businesses that help transform lives.

Public Type BSE: 500209 NASDAQ: INFY IT services Industry IT consulting Founded 2 July 1981 N R Narayana Murthy N. S. Raghavan Founder(s) S. D. Shibulal K. Dinesh Ashok Arora Headquarters Bangalore, Karnataka, India N R Narayana Murthy

(Chairman) Kris Gopalakrishnan Key people (CEO & MD) S. D. Shibulal

(COO & Director) Products Finacle Information technology consulting Services services, solutions and outsourcing.

[1] Revenue ▲ $ 4.804 billion (31st March, 2010) Operating [1] ▲ $1.46 billion (2010) income

[1] Profit ▲ $1.313 billion (2010)

[1] Total assets ▲ $6.150 billion (2010)

[1] Total equity ▲ $5.361 billion (2010)

[2][3] Employees 114,822 (2010) BPO Infosys Public Services Infosys Australia Divisions Infosys Brazil Infosys China Infosys Mexico Infosys Sweden Website Infosys.com

Infosys (BSE: 500209, NASDAQ: INFY) is an information technology services company headquartered in Bangalore, India. Infosys is one of the largest IT companies in India with 113,796 employees (including subsidiaries) as of 2010.[3] It has offices in 22 countries and development centres in India, China, Australia, UK, Canada and Japan.[4]

• Management Details

Chairperson - N R Narayana Murthy MD - S Gopalakrishnan Directors - Claude Smadja, David L Boyles, Deepak M Satwalekar, Jeffrey S Lehman, K Dinesh, K Parvatheesam, K V Kamath, Marti G Subrahmanyam, N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan M Nilekani, Omkar Goswami, Parvatheesam K, Rama Bijapurkar, S D Shibulal, S Gopalakrishnan, Sridar A Iyengar, Srinath Batni, T V Mohandas Pai, V Balakrishnan

FinancialsTotal Income Rs. 220620 Million ( year ending Mar 2010) Net Profit - Rs. 57550 Million ( year ending Mar 2010) Company SecretaryK ParvatheesamBankersAndhra Bank, Axis Bank , Bank of America, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India , Bank of Maharashtra, Bank of Nova Scotia, Barclays Bank, Canara Bank , Citi Bank, Corporation Bank, DBS Bank, Deutsche Bank, HDFC Bank, HSBC Bank, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, ING Vysya Bank, Punjab National Bank, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of India, State Bank of Mysore, Syndicate Bank, Union Bank of India, Vijaya BankAuditorsBSR & Co

History

Infosys was founded on 2 July 1981 by seven entrepreneurs, N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, Kris Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K Dinesh and Ashok Arora with N. S. Raghavan officially being the first employee of the company. Founders started the company with an initial investment of INR 10,000.[5] The company was incorporated as "Infosys Pvt Ltd." in Model Colony, Pune as the registered office

Infosys headquarters in Bangalore, India

Infosys went public in 1993. Interestingly, Infosys IPO was under subscribed but it was bailed out by US investment banker Morgan Stanley which picked up 13% of equity at the offer price of Rs. 95 per share. The share price surged to Rs. 8,100 by 1999. By the year 2000 Infosys's shares touched Rs. 15,600 before the catastrophic incident of 9/11, changed all that.

According to Forbes magazine, since listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange till the year 2000, Infosys' sales and earnings compounded at more than 70% a year. In the year 2000, President of the United States Bill Clinton complimented India on its achievements in high technology areas citing the example of Infosys.

In 2001, it was rated Best Employer in India by Business Today. Infosys was rated best employer to work for in 2000, 2001, and 2002 by Hewitt Associates. In 2007, Infosys received over 1.3 million applications and hired fewer than 3% of applicants.

Infosys won the Global MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises) award, for the years 2003, 2004 and 2005, being the only Indian company to win this award and is inducted into the Global Hall of Fame for the same.

BusinessWeek reported that Infosys, along with Wipro and TCS accounted for nearly 80% of the [H-1B] visa petitions approved in 2007 for the top 10 participants in the program.

In 2010, reports were published on the growing resentment among Infosys employees on the internal company policies.

Initiatives Infosys has the largest corporate university in the world, located on its Mysore campus.[18]

In 1996, Infosys created the in the state of Karnataka, operating in the areas of health care, social rehabilitation and rural uplift, education, arts and culture. Since then, this foundation has spread to the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, , Orissa and Punjab. The Infosys Foundation is headed by Mrs. Sudha Murthy, wife of Founder Cum Chief Mentor Narayana Murthy.

Since 2004, Infosys has embarked on a series of initiatives to consolidate and formalize its academic relationships worldwide under the umbrella of a program called AcE - Academic Entente.[19] Infosys' Global Internship Program, known as InStep, is one of the key components of the Academic Entente initiative. It offers live projects to interns from the universities around the world. InStep recruits undergraduate, graduate and PhD students from business, technology, and liberal arts universities to take part in an 8 to 24 week internship at one of Infosys' global offices. InStep interns are also provided career opportunities with Infosys.

In 1997, Infosys started the "Catch them Young Program", to expose the urban youth to the world of Information Technology by conducting a summer vacation programme. The program is aimed at developing an interest and understanding of computer science and information technology. This program is targeted at students in IX level.[20]

In 2002, the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and Infosys started the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award. This technology award recognizes enterprises and individuals who have transformed their businesses and the society leveraging information technology. Past winners include Samsung, Amazon.com, Capital One, RBS and ING Direct.

Infosys has the largest corporate education center in the world in Mysore. It can accommodate 14000 candidates at one time.[21]

In 2009, Infosys created for excellence in Physical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering and Computer Science, Life Sciences and Social Sciences. [22] Research

Infosys developed a corporate R&D wing called Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs). SETLabs was founded in 2000 to carry out applied research for the development of processes, frameworks and methodologies to effectively capture customer requirements and to iron out common critical issues during a project life cycle. [24] Various broad groups are Software Engg Lab, Convergence Lab, Innovation Lab, Center for KDIS, Security and Privacy Lab and Distributed Computing Lab.

Products and Services offered by the company: IT Services

• Application Services • Architecture Services • Enterprise Quality Services • Independent Validation Services • Information Management Services • Infrastructure Services • Packaged Application Services • SOA Services • Systems Integration Services

Engineering Services

• Product Engineering • Manufacturing Process and Plant Solutions • Lifecycle Management • Consulting Services • Information & Technology Strategies • Product Innovation • Next Generation Commerce • Core Process Excellence • Learning & Complex Change

BPO Services

• Business Platforms • Customer Service Outsourcing • Finance and Accounting • Human Resource Outsourcing • Knowledge Services • Legal Services • Order Management • Sourcing and Procurement Outsourcing

Product and Platforms

• Collaborative Analytics • Finacle • Infosys ActiveDesk • Infosys mConnect • Infosys Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC)

HCL Technologies Management Details.

Chairperson - Shiv Nadar MD - Shiv Nadar Directors - , Amal Ganguli, Manish Anand, P C Sen, R C Sen, Rick Valencia, Robin Abrams, Shiv Nadar, Subroto Bhattacharya, T S R Subramanian, T S R SubAramanian, Vineet Nayar CEO -Vineet Nayar

Chief Financial Officer, HCL Technologies Ltd -Anil chanana

Presiden -Infrastructure Services Division, HCL TechnologiesLtd -Anant gupta

President, BPO Business Services, HCL Technologies Ltd -Rahul singh

HCL Technologies is a leader in global technology and IT enterprise with annual revenues of $5 billion with market capitalization of $4.7 billion. The HCL team comprises 56,000 professionals of different nationalities spread over across 19 countries. In India the company has its presence in 170 cities with 360 service centres.It has global partnership with various leading fortune 1000 firms, including seve

FinancialsTotal Income - Rs. 49409 Million ( year ending Jun 2009) Net Profit - Rs. 9973.1 Million ( year ending Jun 2009) Company Secretary - Manish Anand BankersAuditors - Price Waterhouse & Co

History

In 1976, Shiv Nadar, Arjun Malhotra, Subhash Arora, Badam Kishore Kumar, T.V Bharadwaj & Arun Kumar H started Microcomp Limited. The focus of the company was design and manufacturing of scientific calculators. The venture provided its founders money to start a company that focused on manufacturing computers. In the earliar HCL stands for Hindustan Computers Limited but now HCL is only one name. HCL received support from the Uttar Pradesh government to setup manufacturing in Noida.

HCL Technologies is a leader in global technology and IT enterprise with annual revenues of $5 billion with market capitalization of $4.7 billion. The HCL team comprises 56,000 professionals of different nationalities spread over across 19 countries. In India the company has its presence in 170 cities with 360 service centres.It has global partnership with various leading fortune 1000 firms, including several IT & technology majors. HCL Technologies is leader in providing IT services to its clients restructuring the core of their businesses. Since its entry into global market after its initial public offer (IPO) in 1999, HCL focuses on “transformational outsourcing” through innovation & value creation.

HCL Technologies has portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including several IT and technology majors. It provides services to industry sectors including financial services, manufacturing, aerospace & defense, telecom, retail & CPG, life sciences & healthcare, media & entertainment, travel, transportation & logistics, automotive, government and energies & utilities.

HCL follows the philosophy of 'Employee First', which has enabled the company to create 50,741 professionals into assets of the company. During the second quarter ended September 2008, there has been addition of 2,000 employees in the company. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of $ 1.9 billion (Rest. 7,639 core), as on June 30, 2008. HCL Technologies yearly gives average profit of 22 % yearly.

The acquisition of UK-based Axon for close to 441.1 million pounds, is expected to ramp up HCL Technologies’ client base and will have a positive effect on its profit. The company is also on the lookout for more acquisitions in the near future.

Recognition

• HCL Customer Standard Parking Wins Oracle’s ‘Empower the Green Enterprise’ Award • HCL Receives 6 HR Congress Awards 2008 – a recognition for having great human resources practices • India’s Most Preferred Personal Computer Brand – CNBC AWAAZ Consumer Award 2007

• HCL Technologies (HCL) was named Meritorious Performance Supplier in Sun Microsystems' 2007 Supplier Awards program. The award recognize companies that make outstanding contributions to Sun's record of delivering superior technology, quality service and excellent value to its customers

Overview

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our 58,129 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 2.6 billion (Rs. 12,048 crores), as on 31st March 2010 (on LTM basis).

HCL is a $5 billion leading global Technology and IT Enterprise that comprises two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies & HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups, a pioneer of modern computing, and a global transformational enterprise today. Its range of offerings spans Product Engineering, Custom & Package Applications, BPO, IT Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration, and distribution of ICT products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL team comprises over 62,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 26 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and Technology firms. For more information, please visit www.hcl.in.

Products and services offered by the company:

• Aerospace and Defense • Automotive • Consumer Electronics • Energy and Utilities • Financial Services • Government

• Healthcare • Independent Software Vendors • Industrial Manufacturing • Life Sciences • Media & Entertainment • Retail & Consumer

• Semiconductors • Server and Storage • Telecom • Transportation & Logistics • Travel & Hospitality The pace of change brought about by new technologies has had a significant effect on the way people live, work, and play worldwide. New and emerging technologies challenge the traditional process of teaching and learning, and the way education is managed. Information technology, while an important area of study in its own right, is having a major impact across all curriculum areas. Easy worldwide communication provides instant access to a vast array of data, challenging assimilation and assessment skills. Rapid communication, plus increased access to IT in the home, at work, and in educational establishments, could mean that learning becomes a truly lifelong activityan activity in which the pace of technological change forces constant evaluation of the learning process itself.