This document compares Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and IBM. TCS was founded in 1968 in India as a division of Tata Sons and is India's largest IT company, operating in 44 countries with over 276,000 employees. IBM was founded in 1911 in the US and is a global technology and consulting firm headquartered in New York with over 433,000 employees worldwide and revenues of around $120 billion. The document outlines key statistics and compares the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges of both companies.

2. Project Report On
TCS VS IBM
Submitted To
Monika Khanna
Submitted by
Ravikant Yaday
Abhilash Patil

3. Type
Public
Traded as
BSE: 532540
NSE: TCS
BSE SENSEX Constituent
CNX Nifty Constituent
Industry
IT services, IT consulting
Founded
1968
Founder(s)
J R D Tata
Headquarters
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Area served
Worldwide

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Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) was
founded in 1968 as a division of Tata Sons Limited.
TCS is an Indian multinational information
technology (IT) services, business solutions and
consulting company headquartered in Mumbai
Maharashtra .
TCS operates in 44 countries and has 199 branches
across the world. It is a subsidiary of the Tata
group and is listed on the Bombay Stock
Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of
India. TCS is the largest Indian company by market
capitalization and is the largest India-based IT
company by 2013 revenues.

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TCS is the largest provider of information
technology services in Asia and second largest
provider of business process outsourcing services
in India.
TCS BPO is the second largest player in
the outsourcing industry in India
behind Genpact according to NASSCOM rankings
for the year 2011-12.
TCS had a total of 2,76,196 employees as of March
2013, of which 31% were women

6. Type
Public
Traded as
NYSE: IBM
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Component
S&P 500 Component
Industry
Computer hardware, Computer
software, IT services, IT consulting
Founded
Endicott, New York, U.S.
(June 16, 1911 (102 years ago)
Founder(s)
Thomas J. Watson
Charles Ranlett Flint
Headquarters
Armonk, New York, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide

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The company was founded in 1911 as
the Computing Tabulating Recording
Company (CTR) through a merger of three
companies.
The International Business Machines
Corporation (commonly referred as IBM) is an
American multinational technology and consu
lting corporation, with headquarters
in Armonk, New York, United States.

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In 2012, Fortune ranked IBM the No. 2 largest
U.S. firm in terms of number of employees
4,33,362.
IBM worldwide expects its revenues to be
around $120 billion

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Good working
Environment
Cost advantage
Effective
communication
Market share
leadership
Strong brand equity
Reputation
management
TCS
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First mover in cloud
computing solutions
for enterprises
Brand reputation
Diversified business
Strong competency in
acquisitions
Integration of products
and services
IBM

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Made progress in
commoditised services,
but still lags some
peers and
multinational rivals in
high-end consulting
offerings.
Weak management
team
TCS
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Expensive service and
software solutions
Focus mainly on large
enterprises
IBM

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Best positioned among
all Indian vendors to
disrupt the global
league of IBM-HPAccenture.
Product and services
expansion in advanced
analytics
TCS
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Expand services and
software divisions
Increasing demand of
cloud based services
IBM

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People-led linear
growth means
Cognizant can beat
it, and there are no
visible leaders beyond
N Chandrasekaran.
That could pose a big
challenge.
Rupee appreciation
Competition
TCS
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Increasing competition
in the cloud computing
market
Slowing growth of
world economy
IBM

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In this report the comparison between two IT
companies has been presented . The key
feature of both companies are as given
The aim of this investigation is to analyse the
data in between two companies