LIFE HISTORY OF TCS

TCS began as the "Tata Computer Centre" for the company Tata Group whose main business was to provide computer services to other group companies. F C Kohli was the first general manager. J. R. D. Tata was the first chairman, followed by Pankaj Roy.
One of TCS' first assignments was to provide punched card services to a sister concern, Tata Steel (then TISCO). It later bagged the country's first software project, the Inter-Branch Reconciliation System (IBRS) for the Central Bank of India.[5] It also provided bureau services to Unit Trust of India, thus becoming one of the first companies to offer BPO services.

Early 1970s—Tata Consultancy Services started exporting its services.

1974—The company pioneered the global delivery model for IT services with its first offshore client . TCS's first international order came from Burroughs Corporation, one of the first business computer manufacturers.

1975—TCS counducted its first-ever campus interview which was at IISc,Bangalore. The recruits comprising 12 IITians and 3 IISc graduates were the first to get formal training at the company.

1979—TCS delivered an electronic depository and trading system called SECOM for SIS SegaInterSettle, Switzerland. It was by far the most complex project undertaken by an Indian IT company.

1981—TCS set up India's first software research and development center, the Tata Research Development and Design Center (TRDDC) in Pune

1985—The first client-dedicated offshore development center was set up for Compaq (then Tandem).

1999—TCS saw outsourcing opportunity in E-Commerce and related solutions and set up its E-Business division with ten people. By 2004, E-Business was contributing half a billion dollars (US) to TCS.

August 9, 2004—TCS became a publicly listed company, much later than its rivals, Infosys, Wipro and Mahindra Satyam.

2005—TCS ventured into a new area for an Indian IT services company—Bioinformatics.

2006—TCS designed the ERP for IRCTC.

2011—TCS entered the Small and medium enterprises (SME) market with cloud-based offerings.

2012-TCS became the first Indian IT company to cross the 10 billion dollar revenue milestone.