Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Infosys

  • Infosys Technologies Ltd. was started in 1981 by seven people with US$ 250. Today, a global leader in the "next generation" of IT and consulting with revenues of over US$ 3 billion.

  • Infosys was founded on July 2, 1981 by N.R. Narayan Murthy and six of his colleagues, namely, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora. Narayan Murthy borrowed Rs.10,000 from his wife Sudha Murthy as seed capital for the company. In 1987 Infosys got its first foreign client, Data Basics Corporation from the United States and opened its first office in the USA. In 1993, Infosys became a public limited company and successfully completed IPO in India. In the same year Infosys received ISO 9001/TickIT certification. Infosys set up its first office in Europe in Milton Keynes, UK in 1996. In 1999, Infosys crossed $100 Million in annual revenue and was listed on NASDAQ. It was Indian company to be listed on NASDAQ. In the same year Infosys opened offices in Germany, Sweden, Belgium, and Australia. In 2000, Infosys crossed $200 Million in annual revenue. In 2004, Infosys crossed US $1 Billion in annual revenue. In 2006, Infosys completed 25 years of its existence and its revenues crossed $ 2 billion. Today Infosys has more than 50,000 employees and has presence in more than 20 countries across the world. Its corporate headquarters is in Bangalore.

Services offered by Infosys are:

  • Application Development & Maintenance,
  • Corporate Performance Management,
  • Enterprise Quality Services
  • Infrastructure Services Packages
  • Application Services
  • Product Engineering
  • Systems Integration

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