3. Infosys Limited is an Indian Information Technology company that provides global business consulting
and information technology services.
The company provides end-to-end business solutions that leverage technology for their clients,
including technical consulting, design, development, product engineering, maintenance, systems
integration, package-enabled consulting, and implementation and infrastructure management services.
Infosys helps clients in 45 countries to create and execute different strategies for their digital
transformation. Infosys helps businesses to renew & improve existing conditions so that their business
can achieve higher efficiencies and stay relevant according to current times.
Infosys is the second-largest Indian IT company after Tata Consultancy Services by 2017 revenue and
596th largest public company in the world based on revenue.
4. How they started
Infosys was conceived in 1981 in Pune by Narayan Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N S Raghavan, S
Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal, K Dinesh and Ashok Arora, all former employees of Patni
Computer Systems.
The company was started with meager initial capital of Rs 10,000 and was named Infosys
Consultants. Murthy borrowed the sum from his wife Sudha Murthy. The front room of
Murthy's home was the company's first office, although the registered office was Raghavan's
home.
Infosys's first employee
If you think it was Narayan Murthy, you are wrong. It was N S Raghavan. Murthy was
employee No. 4, he took nearly year to finish his tasks at Patni and then joined his firm.
Infosys did not have a computer till 1983, because Murthy could not afford to bring an
imported option he liked. It took almost two years to get a computer on their own.
5. Infosys Limited formerly known as Infosys Technologies Limited was established in the
year 1981 by N. R. Narayana Murthy and a team of six other engineers in Pune, India with
an initial capital investment of just US $250.
In the year 1993 Infosys went public and introduced employee stock options program.
In 1994, Infosys moved its corporate office from Pune to Bangalore, India.
In the year 1999, Infosys became the first Indian IT company to be listed in NASDAQ thus
making it the costliest share on the market at that time in India. In the year 1999, Infosys
was among the 20 biggest companies by market value on the NASDAQ.
In the year 1999 Infosys annual revenue touched US$100 million, US $1 billion in 2004
and US$10 billion in 2017.
7. Infosys’ Mission Statement
"To achieve our objectives in an environment of fairness, honesty, and courtesy towards
our clients, employees, vendors and society
Infosys’ Vision Statement
"To be a globally respected corporation that provides best-of-breed business solutions,
leveraging technology, delivered by best-in-class people."
Infosys Tagline
“Powered by Intellect, Driven by Values”
8. Board of Directors
Executive Members of the Board
Salil Parekh
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
U.B. Pravin Rao
Chief Operating Officer and Whole-time
Director
Non-Executive Chairman of the Board
Nandan M. Nilekani
Chairman of the Board
Lead Independent Director
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Independent
Directors
D.N Prahlad
Michale
Gibbs
Roopa Kudva
Dr. Punita
Kumar-Sinha
D. Sundaram
9. Adobe
Amazon Web Service (AWS)
Nokia
Google
Microsoft
IBM
PTC
SAP
SAP ARIBA
12. Infosys is majorly a service based IT company. The only product from the company is FINACLE
which is the core banking solution used by all major Indian and International Banks.
Universal banking solution from Infosys.
Empowers banks to transform their business.
One of the most comprehensive, flexible and scalable solutions in its class.
13. Application development and maintenance.
Corporate performance management.
Enterprise Quality services.
Infrastructure Services.
Packaged application services.
Product engineering.
System s Integration.