History of the Infosys company:
History of the Infosys:
Established in 1981, Infosys is a NASDAQ listed global consulting and IT services company with more than 151,000 employees. From a capital of US$ 250, we have grown to become a US$ 7.075 billion (LTM Q1 FY13 revenues) company with a market capitalization of approximately US$ 26 billion.
Over the years, we have catalyzed some of the major changes that have led to India's emergence as the global destination for software services talent. We pioneered the Global Delivery Model and became the first IT company from India to be listed on NASDAQ. Our employee stock options program created some of India's first salaried millionaires.
Read more about the defining moments in Infosys' history.
Milestones
Infosys has global offices in Europe,South America, North America and bangalore.
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Established in 1981, Infosys is a NASDAQ listed global consulting and IT services company with more than 151,000 employees. From a capital of US$ 250, we have grown to become a US$ 7.075 billion (LTM Q1 FY13 revenues) company with a market capitalization of approximately US$ 26 billion.
Over the years, we have catalyzed some of the major changes that have led to India's emergence as the global destination for software services talent. We pioneered the Global Delivery Model and became the first IT company from India to be listed on NASDAQ. Our employee stock options program created some of India's first salaried millionaires.
Read more about the defining moments in Infosys' history.
Milestones
Infosys has global offices in Europe,South America, North America and bangalore.
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| Infosys Bangalore campus |
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| Infosys BPO Building, Bangalore campus |
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| Infosys Canteen, Bangalore campus |
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| Infosys Chennai main block at Mahindra World City, New Chennai |
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| infosys Chennai,one of the biggest in the world |
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| infosys Mangalore campus |
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| Infosys The largest TV screen in Asia, Bangalore campus |
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| infosys Thiruvananthapuram campus |
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| Infosys, Pune campus |
2012
Forbes ranks Infosys among the world's most innovative companies
Infosys among top 25 performers in Caring for Climate Initiative
Infosys crosses the US$ 7 billion revenue mark
2011
N. R. Narayana Murthy hands over chairmanship to K V Kamath
Infosys crosses US$ 6 billion revenue mark, employee strength grows to over 130,000
2010
Infosys crosses the US$ 5 billion revenue mark
2009
Infosys opens its first development center in Brazil and second Latin American development center in Monterrey, Mexico
Infosys selected as a member of The Global Dow
Employee strength grows to over 100,000
2008
Infosys crosses revenues of US$ $ 4.18 billion
Annual net profits cross US$ 1 billion
2007
Infosys crosses revenues of US$ 3 billion. Employees grow to over 70,000+
Kris Gopalakrishnan, COO, takes over as CEO. Nandan M. Nilekani is appointed Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors
Opens new subsidiary in Latin America
Reports Q2 revenue of over US$ 1billion
2006
Infosys celebrates 25 years. Revenues cross US$ 2 billion. Employees grow to 50,000+
N. R. Narayana Murthy retires from the services of the company on turning 60. The Board of Directors appoints him as an Additional Director. He continues as Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys
2005
Records the largest international equity offering of US$ 1 billion from India
Selected to the Global MAKE Hall of Fame
2004
Revenues reach US$ 1 billion
Infosys Consulting Inc. is launched
2003
Establishes subsidiaries in China and Australia
Expands operations in Pune and China, and sets up a development center in Thiruvananthapuram
2002
Touches revenues of US$ 500 million
Nandan M. Nilekani takes over as CEO from N.R. Narayana Murthy, who is appointed Chairman and Chief Mentor
Opens offices in the Netherlands, Singapore and Switzerland
Sponsors secondary ADS offering
Infosys and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania set up The Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Awards (WIBTA)
Launches Progeon, offering business process outsourcing services
2001
Touches revenues of US$ 400 million. Opens offices in UAE and Argentina, and a development center in Japan
N. R. Narayana Murthy is rated among Time Magazine/CNN's 25 most influential businessmen in the world
Infosys is rated as the Best Employer by Business World/Hewitt
2000
Touches revenues of US$ 200 million
Opens offices in France and Hong Kong, a global development center in Canada and UK, and three development centers in the US
Re-launches Banks 2000, the universal banking solution from Infosys, as Finacle™
1999
Touches revenues of US$ 100 million. Listed on NASDAQ
Infosys becomes the 21st company in the world to achieve a CMM Level 5 certification
Opens offices in Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Australia, and two development centers in the US
Infosys Business Consulting Services is launched
1998
Starts Enterprise Solutions (packaged applications) practice
1997
Opens an office in Toronto, Canada
Infosys is assessed at CMM Level 4
1996
The Infosys Foundation is established
1995
Opens first European office in the UK and global development centers at Toronto and Mangalore. Sets up e-Business practice
1994
Moves corporate headquarters to Electronic City, Bangalore. Opens a development center at Fremont
1993
Introduces Employee Stock Options (ESOP) program
Acquires ISO 9001/TickIT certification
Goes public
1987
Opens first international office in Boston, US
1983
Relocates corporate headquarters to Bangalore
1981
Infosys is established by N. R. Narayana Murthy and six engineers in Pune, India, with an initial capital of US$ 250
Signs up its first client, Data Basics Corporation, in New York
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My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.
Swami Vivekananda, known in his pre-monastic life as Narendra Nath Datta, was born in an affluent family in Kolkata on 12 January 1863. His father, Vishwanath Datta, was a successful attorney with interests in a wide range of subjects, and his mother, Bhuvaneshwari Devi, was endowed with deep devotion, strong character and other qualities. A precocious boy, Narendra excelled in music, gymnastics and studies. By the time he graduated from Calcutta University, he had acquired a vast knowledge of different subjects, especially Western philosophy and history. Born with a yogic temperament, he used to practise meditation even from his boyhood, and was associated with Brahmo Movement for some time.
Sri Ramakrishna instilled in these young men the spirit of renunciation and brotherly love for one another. One day he distributed ochre robes among them and sent them out to beg food. In this way he himself laid the foundation for a new monastic order. He gave specific instructions to Narendra about the formation of the new monastic Order. In the small hours of 16 August 1886 Sri Ramakrishna gave up his mortal body.
of the followers of Sri Ramakrishna thought of him in relation to their own personal lives, Vivekananda thought of the Master in relation to India and the rest of the world. As the prophet of the present age, what was Sri Ramakrishna’s message to the modern world and to India in particular? This question and the awareness of his own inherent powers urged Swamiji to go out alone into the wide world. So in the middle of 1890, after receiving the blessings of Sri Sarada Devi, the divine consort of Sri Ramakrishna, known to the world as Holy Mother, who was then staying in Kolkata, Swamiji left Baranagar Math and embarked on a long journey of exploration and discovery of India.
The immediate need was to provide food and other bare necessities of life to the hungry millions. For this they should be taught improved methods of agriculture, village industries, etc. It was in this context that Vivekananda grasped the crux of the problem of poverty in India (which had escaped the attention of social reformers of his days): owing to centuries of oppression, the downtrodden masses had lost faith in their capacity to improve their lot. It was first of all necessary to infuse into their minds faith in themselves. For this they needed a life-giving, inspiring message. Swamiji found this message in the principle of the Atman, the doctrine of the potential divinity of the soul, taught in Vedanta, the ancient system of religious philosophy of India. He saw that, in spite of poverty, the masses clung to religion, but they had never been taught the life-giving, ennobling principles of Vedanta and how to apply them in practical life.
It was when these ideas were taking shape in his mind in the course of his wanderings that Swami Vivekananda heard about the World’s Parliament of Religions to be held in Chicago in 1893. His friends and admirers in India wanted him to attend the Parliament. He too felt that the Parliament would provide the right forum to present his Master’s message to the world, and so he decided to go to America. Another reason which prompted Swamiji to go to America was to seek financial help for his project of uplifting the masses.
His speeches at the World’s Parliament of Religions held in September 1893 made him famous as an ‘orator by divine right’ and as a ‘Messenger of Indian wisdom to the Western world’. After the Parliament, Swamiji spent nearly three and a half years spreading Vedanta as lived and taught by Sri Ramakrishna, mostly in the eastern parts of USA and also in London.
to rouse the religious consciousness of the people and create in them pride in their cultural heritage;
