The Tata Group offers a wide range of IT services for various industries and applications. It does this through the following companies: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), CMC, Tata Infotech, Tata Elxsi, Tata Technologies and Nelito Systems.

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TCS offers services over the entire IT application lifecycle, including migration and reengineering, e-commerce and internet services, testing services, architecture and technology consulting, systems integration, as well as packaged software implementation across multiple industry and technology domains. These include banking, financial services, insurance, telecom, manufacturing, media and entertainment, retail and consumer goods, transportation, healthcare and life sciences, and s-governance.

Infrastructure: Complete outsourcing of IT networks, consulting and integration, hardware support and installation, and infrastructure management.

Asset-based solutions: TCS utilises its proprietary software assets to deliver solutions to clients in specific industries and has licensed several software intellectual property rights. It also develops and markets a variety of products and software development tools across diverse industries.

Engineering and industrial services: Embedded software and R&D services in new product development and product lifecycle management, including product design, simulation, engineering drafting, computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD / CAM / CAE), product data management and customisation of engineering software.

Consulting: One of the first companies to set up an independent consulting division, TCS includes consulting as an integrated part of any assignment for its customers.

BPO: A variety of transaction-based IT-enabled services, including inbound call centres, back-office support, engineering services and database services. These operate 24x7 for client needs from various geographies, ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery.

For more information and contact details, please see
www.tcs.com or TCS profile

CMC
CMC builds, manages and supports its customers' IT systems across the entire value chain — infrastructure, applications and business processes — for the following industries: banking and finance, insurance, transportation, ports and shipping, mining, defence and e-governance. It also manages projects on a turnkey basis.

The range of its offerings extends to hardware, software (including systems and application software development, implementation, maintenance and frameworks), IT architecture, network consulting and IT-enabled processing services, structured into 12 service practices:

• Data warehousing
• Education and training
• Event management
• Infrastructure development and management
• IT-enabled services
• Networking management and services
• Software design and development
• Systems and hardware consultancy
• Systems engineering and integration
• Systems study, design and development
• Turnkey projects

For more information and contact details, please see www.cmc.com or CMC profile

Tata Infotech

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Tata Infotech operates in the areas of systems integration (including software development, IT-enabled services and IT infrastructure management), contract hardware manufact uring and IT education. It specialises in seamlessly distributed on-site and offshore service processes in areas such as banking, financial services, insurance, mortgages, education, governance, life sciences, manufacturing, retail, telecom and transportation.

Systems integration services: ISP and intranet set-up, airline reservation systems, stock exchanges and telecom billing, GIS, communications software for more than 1,000 nodes, e-governance solutions such as driving licence and vehicle registrations, 24x7 call centres / helpdesk, ERP and e-biz solutions, healthcare, railroad operation and control, as well as complex WAN, MAN, and campus LAN.

Software development: Seamless, distributed on-site and offshore service processes, reengineering, customised development, software integration, IT consultancy, as well as the entire value-chain of software development, from requirement definition to post-production support, maintenance and training.

IT-enabled services: State-of-the-art services and solutions for the contact-centre requirements of large corporations, through a joint venture with the world's leading call centre providers, SITEL.

Hardware manufacturing services: Value-added contract manufacturing services and hardware embedded design services from a 100-per-cent export unit, including automatic cheque processing systems, ATM machines, SMT printed circuit board assemblies, computer hardware, embedded design solutions, mechatronic sub-assemblies and utility payment systems.

Education services: Customer-driven, multi-level learning solutions across the entire spectrum of the enterprise. Offerings include solutions from SkillSoft, learning management solutions, competency management solutions, virtual classroom training, customised e-content development and blended learning solutions.

For more information and contact details, please see www.tatainfotech.com or Tata Infotech profile

Tata Elxsi
From automotive to aerospace, bio-informatics to consumer electronics, entertainment to FMCG, media to storage, semicon to telecom, Tata Elxsi provides customised design solutions to companies across the globe, providing cost-effective, time-to-market solutions. Seamlessly integrating precision and ingenuity, the company offers hard-core technology and strength in design, providing point services and end-to-end solutions across the product lifecycle. Presented below are some of its areas of expertise.

Product design services: Tata Elxsi builds silicon-embedded systems and software layers and deploys technologies across the automotive, semiconductor, networking and telecom, storage, media and scientific instrumentation, and simulation industries.

Design and engineering services: Integrated services towards complete product design, innovation, and styling services across industry segments such as consumer products, electronic enclosures and transportation.

Media services: Tata Elxsi's visual computing lab (VCL) division creates 3D computer graphics, animation and visual effects for pre-production, production and post-production of content for advertising, cinema, television and gaming.

Games: High-end animation expertise, complemented by interactive programming skills to create sophisticated high-end games.

Systems integration: Tata Elxsi provides integrated hardware and software solutions in the areas of design, visualisation, advanced compute infrastructure, networking and storage systems.

Concept design and styling (CAD / CAM / CAE): Development of concept to surfacing, interior and exteriors texture mapping, ergonomics, etc. Studio tools software from Alias, Canada, which help industrial designers work from 2D to 3D freeform surface modelling.

Bio-informatics: Effective software tools that can do protein modelling, QSAR, denovo drug design, analogue-based drug design, molecular modelling and simulation tools, etc, enabling better and faster research.

For more information and contact details, please see
www.tataelxsi.com or Tata Elxsi profile

Tata Technologies

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Tata Technologies offers world-class enterprise solutions and related implementation services to different industry segments, including automotive, process, communications, discrete manufacturing and the engineering industry, with clearly defined risk minimisation and change management strategies. Its Team SAP partnership enterprise solutions group caters to all consulting and delivery needs and covers all functional modules.

Complex SAP services: ERP and CRM solution implementation with all advanced SAP and mySAP.com components.

Beyond CAD / CAM: Tata Technologies has developed KNEXT, a set of new-age knowledge-based engineering (KBE) tools which reduce product introduction cycle times.

Offshore E&D: Enables clients to leverage lower-cost geographies while benefiting from a rich E&D talent pool at the Tata Technologies Centre for Advanced Engineering and Design (CAE&D) at Pune, India, a state-of-the-art engineering and design hub.

For more information and contact details, please see www.tatatechnologies.com or Tata Technologies profile

Nelito Systems
Nelito Systems is focused on being an IT services provider for the financial services and banking sectors. It is a leading systems integrator and applications service provider for the banking sector, having executed many turnkey projects including hardware, software and networking solutions. The company delivers a single source of expertise for designing and implementing networks, facilities, products, software, consultancy, training, warranty, and maintenance support services at all levels.

The company offers the following services:

• Software development
• Software products
• Interfaces
• Software utilities
• Software project works
• Software and hardware implementation
• Maintenance support
• Hardware maintenance
• Software maintenance
• Network / system administration services
• Security (including virus scan / protection, backup and recovery services)
• Testing of application software.
• Software version control
• Setting up and maintaining intranets
• User training on application software
• Manpower services (a preferred outsourcing entity for software professionals for development, implementation and consultancy jobs)

For more information and contact details, please see
www.nelito.com or Nelito profile