Tata Consultancy Services Limited was incorporated in 1968. Tata Sons Limited established the Company as division to service their electronic data processing (EDP) requirements and provide management consulting services. In 1971, they started their first international assignment. The Company pioneered the global delivery model for IT services with their first offshore client in 1974.
TCS is a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization offering transformational as well as outsourcing services to global enterprises. It has a global presence, deep domain expertise in multiple industry verticals and a complete portfolio of services consisting of consulting and service integration, application services, digital transformation services, cloud services, engineering services, cognitive business operations and products & platforms - targeting every C-suite stakeholder. The Company uses all these, and its industry leading suite of products and platforms to deliver high quality, high impact solutions leveraging the latest technologies to customers across the world. These solutions are delivered using its Secure Borderless Workspaces (SBWS) operating model which enables a highly distributed, Location Independent Agile delivery. As at March 31, 2026, Tata Sons Private Limited, the holding company owned 71.74% of the company's
equity share capital.
TCS's geographic footprint consists of North America, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific, India and Middle-East & Africa. A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 592,000 of the world's best-trained consultants in 55 countries. The company headquartered in Mumbai. It has a manufacturing facility at Mapusa, Goa.
In the year 1981, the company set up India's first IT R&D division, the Tata Research Design and Development Centre at Pune. In the year 1985, they set up their first client-dedicated offshore development cente