Strides Bulletin_June 2013

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TCS Spotlight

TCS becomes India's most admired company: FortuneTCS replaces Tata Steel as India's most admired company

Software giant TCS has replaced its group firm Tata Steel as the country's most admired

company, as per a Fortune list released on 9 July 2013.

TCS is followed by Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Infosys and SBI in the top-five, while last year's top-

ranked firm Tata Steel has slipped to seventh position in the list of India's 50 most admired

companies.

Both ITC and Infosys are ranked at third position.

There are a total of four Tata group companies on the list, while as many as ten public sector

units (PSUs) have made it to the rankings, global business magazine Fortune's Indian edition

said on Tuesday.

The Indian entities of many multi-national companies including Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Samsung,

Nokia, Dell and Intel have also made it into the league of most admired companies.

The rankings have taken into account various factors such as corporate governance,

innovativeness, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and leadership.

L&T (6th rank), Maruti Suzuki (9th) and ICICI Bank (10th) also feature in the top ten.

Besides Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Tata Steel, other Tata group firms in the list are

Tata Motors at the 12th spot and Tata Power at 50th.

Among state-run enterprises, SBI and ONGC are in the top ten, ranked at fifth and eighth

positions, respectively.

State-run oil major Indian Oil Corp was placed at 11th rank, while SAIL (22nd), Bharat

Petroleum (25th), NTPC (28th), HPCL (31st), GAIL (34th), ONGC Videsh (47th) and Coal India

(48th) also made the cut.

Other companies who made it to the list include Microsoft India (15th), Colgate Palmolive

(16th), IBM India (17th), Samsung India Electronics (18th), Bharti Airtel (19th), Cadbury (23rd),

Dell India (32nd), Siemens (36th), Intel India (38th), Nokia India (42nd) and Sony India (44th).

TCS named one of the 'Top 10 Companies with the Best Business Outlook'Glassdoor Survey reports high marks from TCS Employees on Culture & Values, CareerOpportunities and Work/Life Balance

Tata Consultancy Services, the leading IT services, consulting and business solutions

organisation, today announced that it has been named one of the Top 10 Companies with the

Best Business Outlook by Glassdoor, the online career and workplace resource community.

Copyright 2012 Tata Consultancy Services Limited. All Rights Reserved.


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global customers, supporting areas like ADM, BPO, Infrastructure, Roll Out, Service Desk,

Mobility Lab.

The CREAR Award for 'Innovation and Best Practices in the Human Capital', is the first nationalrecognition directed to the HR Community in Uruguay and was created in September 2010. Thecriteria for the award included an evaluation which measured the level of impact for thefollowing categories: Number of people impacted, value-add, measurable results and timelines.

TCS wins 'Microsoft Supplier of the Year' award for 2013June 5, 2013

TCS has won the prestigious Microsoft Supplier of the Year award for 2013. This awardrecognises TCS exceptional delivery performance, exemplary service and innovation across

multiple service lines for Microsoft product groups and IT. TCS was selected amongst apreferred supplier pool of over hundreds of suppliers serving Microsoft in various procurementcategories. The award was presented during 2013 Microsoft Preferred Supplier Program (MPSP)Summit on 30 May 2013.

During the award ceremony, representatives from Microsoft business groups including - KenDrake (MSIT), Paul Hiteshew (GFS), Fran Chang (GPG), and SeshNarasimhan (EPG), spoke highlyof TCS service and partnership.

Through strong collaboration, TCS has successfully built solutions that help customers optimizeand transform their businesses using Microsoft technologies. As a Microsoft customer, TCSholds one of the largest enterprise agreements and currently has more than 28,000 consultantsworking on Microsoft technologies. Through its commitment to drive efficiencies and process

improvements, TCS has saved Microsoft millions of dollars, while making significantcontributions to the successful testing and adoption of Windows 8, Azure and Microsoft SQLServer technologies Microsoft.

New Business Developments

TCS joins US2020 as Founding Leadership PartnerJun 18, 2013

TCS is the Lead Partner in Developing US2020s Web-based Matching Technology to ConnectSTEM Mentors with Volunteer Placements Across the Country

Tata Consultancy Services, the leading IT services, consulting and business solutions

organization, today announced that the company has joined US2020 as a Founding Leadership

Partner. US2020 is a national STEM Education initiative that aims to engage one million science,

technology, engineering and math (STEM) professionals in mentorship opportunities by the

year 2020. The announcement was made during President Bill Clintons closing plenary session

at CGI America, a nationwide gathering hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative. TCS will be the

lead partner in developing US2020s web-based matching technology to connect STEM mentors

with high-quality volunteer placements.

HiTech ISU Head Nagaraj

and Gajanan Phadake, Cli

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Through the online matching platform that TCS will develop, US2020 will help place STEM

volunteers into high impact mentoring opportunities with top nonprofits working acrossdifferent grades, settings, and delivery models. As more companies join this effort, their early

eadership will help catalyze a culture shift in which mentoring becomes the new normal for

STEM professionals, much like pro bono work is in the legal profession.

We need these one million volunteers to ensure that were going to have students take the

courses that will inspire and prepare them for STEM careers, said President Clinton.

Tata Consultancy Services is joining as a Founding Leadership Partner of US2020, providing

more than $500,000 in cash and in-kind support. TCS is also aspiring to get 20 percent of the

companys STEM workforce mentoring students by 2020.

Apollo to scale up IT's role in services(It has developed in collaboration with the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), across all its

hospitals)

Source: Business Standard / 18 June 2013

The Apollo Hospitals Group is planning to scale up its Hospital Information Services (HIS) system

Med-Mantra, which it has developed in collaboration with the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),

across all its hospitals covering 9,000 beds, in the next 12-18 months. It also expects to roll out

technologies as part of eHealth and mHealth in the next 12-18 months.

Announcing that the Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, has bagged the HIMSS Analytics Asia Pacific

Award for its IT capabilities, Sangita Reddy, executive director - operations, Apollo HospitalsGroups, said, "We will have 6,000 beds covered with the system and capabilities by the end of

the year and in another six months from that all 9,000 beds of Apollo Hospitals will be

covered."

TCS plans to create billion-dollar business from Tata group firms(Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chief executive is quoted.)

Source: Mint / 19 May 2013

TCS earns just $100 mn annually from Tata firms that give away projects worth 10 times that

amount to rivals

Bangalore: In March, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chief executive of Indias largest software

services firm Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), addressed a group of customers in Chennai

that together spend nearly $2 billion on information technology (IT) every year, over half of

which could be potentially delivered by his company.

These customers were not the usual Fortune 100 firms from the top markets of the US and

Europe, but chief information officers and senior executives from the $100 billion Tata group

across the businesses of manufacturing, auto and services.



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TCS in NewsPune teens top the country as FB users: Survey(Survey by Tata Consultancy Services(TCS))Source: DNA / 18 June 2013

The Twitter-savvy, Facebook-friendly and heavy Internet users that Pune teenagers have turned

into may not have even noticed that the trusted old telegraph has said its final goodbye.

In fact, this mode of communication never bothered Punes GEN Z who according to a 14 -city

Web Youth Survey by Tata Consultancy Services(TCS) have overtaken their counterparts inneighbouring Mumbai and Nagpur as well when it came to Facebooking and Internet usage.

The TCS 3.0 Web Youth Survey was conducted to understand the changing habits in the use of

digitised commodities of 17,478 school students aged between 12 years-18 years across 14

Indian cities including Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, New Delhi,

Hyderabad etc.

Digital divide closes among India's 'Post-Millennials' with 70% studentsowning smart phones nationally

(Mr.N.Chandrasekaran, CEO and MD TCS and Mr. Ajoy Mukherjee, Executive VicePresident and Global Head HR are quoted.)

Source: India PR Wire / 17 June 2013

Ownership of Smart Phones similar across Tier I and II cities - Smart Phone adoption driving

mobile Internet access - Three out of four use internet for school-related work - Urban

millennials live in 'wired homes'; 84% access internet from home - Social networks are

preferred communication mode over calls or mails - Predictably, over 50% own an Android-

powered smart device

Tweet Bengaluru, Karnataka, June 17, 2013 /India PRwire/ -- India's 'Post-Millennial' generation

seem set to overtake the preceding 'Millennial' generation or 'Gen Y', taking communication

over social networks like Facebook and Twitter and instant messaging modes like Whatsapp to

newer extremes, according to the findings of the TCS survey 2012-13, which was released

today.

Commenting on the TCS Survey, N Chandrasekaran, CEO and MD said: "Urban school students

today are gaining greater online access with more affordable bandwidth and smart devices on

offer. They are an ultra-connected generation, using the power of the internet for education as

well as collaborating through social networks and building virtual communities. As significant

employers of India's talented youth, it is important for us to understand these social and digital



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trends to create engaging careers for this generation."

Releasing the survey, Ajoy Mukherjee, Executive Vice President and Global Head HR said: "The

survey shows the increasing comfort levels that the Post-Millennial generation exhibit with

digital technology, social networking, smart phones and gaming, which helps us create

conditions to unleash their creativity and innovativeness. This can help us not just attract the

best of their talent but also aid in keeping them engaged and energized."

Filling the big data skills gap( Mr. Ananth Krishnan, CTO, TCS is quoted.)

Source: CMO / 17 June 2013

The growing importance of big data is leading to a significant shortage of skills in data analytics,

and producing a number of initiatives aimed at filling the gap.

In April, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) published an extensive report on big data - The

Emerging Big Returns on Big Data - and TCS CTO, Ananth Krishnan, said that the emerging

market for big data analytics would create huge demand for data scientists.

To turn data into useful information and business outcomes you need people to analyse,

interpret and then, hopefully, come up with insights, Krishnan said. It is not a new skill set.

Mathematicians and statisticians would be very good at this. I think there is sufficientcapability in academia and inside companies there is a tremendous amount of analytic skill and

capability in both the business functions and in the IT functions.

TCS beats ONGC to become most-valued companySource: The Economic Times / 20 May 2013

MUMBAI: Tata Group software services company Tata Consultancy Services today became the

country's most valued firm with a market capitalisation of over Rs 2.87 lakh crore, surpassing

energy major ONGC's value of more than Rs 2.84 lakh crore.

At the end of trade today, TCS commanded a market cap of Rs 2,87,320 crore. This is about

Rs 2,508 crore more than the ONGC's m-cap of Rs 2,84,812 crore.



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Campus Commune UpdatesTCS to launch Mega Coding Challenge on 22-July-2013

Following the grand success of the TCS Coding Challenge - CodeVita last year, TCS will belaunching CodeVita 2013 on 22-July-2013

With an aim to promote programming as a sport and build a culture in Indian colleges aroundcomputer programming, CodeVita 2013 will be open to students from engineering and sciencecolleges in India

Students from 1st year till 4th year can form teams to take part in the contest. There is no limitto the number of teams students from your institute can form.

Structured to provide students with an ultimate coding experience,students can write their

programming solutions in any of the following 7 languages - C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, Python andRuby

CodeVita will have three rounds with the 3rd and final round to be held in one of the TCSLoffices in India.

Exciting prizes await the winners of the contest along with an Internship Offer with the TCSLResearch Team.

To take part in the contest, students will be required to create their profile on TCS NextStepand then register for the Contest on Campus Commune

We look forward to your support to make this the biggest coding contest in India.

Top 50 teams of EngiNX contest declared

TCS Talent Acquisition Team in association with the Engineering and Industrial Services (EIS)

team had launched an all India Engineering contest for YOP 2014 and 2015 students on 27-

May-2013.

Of 2880 teams formed for the contest, 2358 teams contested in Round 1 - Quiz . After 3

gruelling levels, 1216 teams finally cleared Level 3 of the first round a neat 51% of teams

who attempted Round 1.


Quick Stats: Campus Comm

Over 1.8 Lacs students

Top performing Regions

the week for week endin

Jul 2013

- Chennai- Pune- Kolkata

Over 500 student users

added week on week

Close to 60% new users

from Mumbai and Pune

Debates and Polls conti

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Top ranking regions from where students participated in Round 1 are:Hyderabad (90%) , Trivandrum(85%), Chennai and Lucknow (83%) , Mumbai(82%) and Delhi(81%)

Top 50 teams from Round 1 were asked to submit a solution to an engineering problem by 30-

Jun-2013. 46 teams submitted their unique and innovative ideas to us.

Top 5 teams for the Final round will be selected from Round 2. To prepare for the Grand Finale,

each Team will be given 3 weeks to develop a working model of their idea submitted.

Each team at this level will be reimbursed up to an amount of Rs. 25,000 only (rupees twenty

five thousand subject to availability of bills) which is to be utilised towards developing the

working model of the proposition submitted. TCSL will encourage development of a working

model which is compact and portable.

At the end of the third week, along with the demonstration of the model (which may include

video clips), the teams will be required to submit an executive summary of the proposition and

its development in not more than 500 words

Subsequently all teams will be called to TCSL Bangalore for an in-person Demonstration of

their model to a selected audience.

Top 2 teams will win exciting prizes along with an Internship Offer with the TCSL Engineering

and Industrial Services Team

TCS Abstract Eye

Top 10 Photographs from the TCS Abstract Eye is now up on Campus Commune for students to

vote for.

Top 2 photographs which win the maximum votes will win exciting TCS goodies.

Top 5 colleges with highest Campus Commune users

College Registered Users

Gandhi Inst of Tech & Management, Visakhapatnam 1567Institute of Technical Education & Research, Bhubaneswar 1353

Muthayammal Engineering College, Rasipuram 1146

Shanmugha Arts,Science,Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA), Thanjavur 1721

SRM Engineering College, Kattankulathur 1296

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