Major IT Companies

Agere Systems Inc was a USA based hardware company whose headquarter was in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In the earlier days Agera was a Texas based electronics company and another major company Lucent Technologies had acquired Agera Systems in the year 2000. In April 2007, the company merged into California based electronics company LSI Corporation.

In India, Agere Systems has a development center in Bangalore and mainly the work of ASIC design and software development is done there. Now a days the company is maintaining the production of integrated circuits. Recently the company has nearly 17,000 employees. The president and chief executive officer of the company is Richard L. Clemmer.

Adobe Systems Incorporated or commonly known Adobe Systems is one of the largest USA based software companies. The company was founded by both John Warnock and Charles geschke in the year 1982 in Mountain View, California. It has its headquarters in San Jose, California and the company has a vast establishment at that place. In the year 2005, Adobe Systems acquired “Macromedia” which was USA based graphics and web development software company.

Adobe has a employee strength of nearly 6,900 and 40% of them work in San Jose. The other development centers of the company are washington, Hamburg, San Francisco, Germany, Romania. In India it has its centers at Bangalore, Noida. It had a net revenue of $3.1 billion in the year 2007. Some of the major products of the company are acrobat reader, bridge, flash player, photoshop, shockwave etc.

Adabtec is a core hardware company which is mainly known for its business of making semiconductors. This is USA based company whose headquarter is at Milpitas,California and it has its centers in various countries. In india the company has its main center in Bangalore. Mainly the company produces host adapters which is required for connecting storage devices with CPU(Central processing unit) of computers. USB Hubs are the other key products which is produced by the company.

The sales is mainly based at the production of its RAID Controllers and HBA’s which is mostly used for SATA and SAS drives. The other products of the company includes external LVD cables, battery modules, terminators and internal SCSI cables. The company was founded in the year 1981 and now it has 1560 employees across the world. The company has a revenue of 334 million USD.

ACS(Affiliate Computer Services) is one of the top 500 companies in USA and the company provides Information technology services and also business process outsourcing. The company delivers its services and solutions to businesses, government agencies and many non profit organizations. In USA, the company is based at two centers and that is Dallas and Texas. The Chief Executive Officer of the company is Lynn Blodgett.

In the year 2008, the company has ranked 423 in the list of fortune 500 companies of USA. The founder of the company is Darwin Deason and it was founded in the year 1988. Now ACS has got a huge success and the company is operating its business in nearly 100 countries. The company has a average net revenue of over 6 billion dollars per year. Upto january,2008 the company has nearly 62,000 employees.

Accord is an Indian Corporate organization which mainly produces a wide variety of GPS(Global positioning system), aurospace and enterprise applications for a huge number of customers. This is a private firm which was founded in 1991.The company has it’s headquarters at Bangalore. The main products of the company are GPS products, Smartworks and Rema. The company’s GPS products include GPS signal tap which is a kind of GPS receiver, GPS Lab which is a PC based software simulator, GPS correlator Simulator which is a powerful software package, Auto sensor lab which is a pc based software simulator of vehicle dynamics and many others.

Accors has many clients worldwide and some of its major clients are ISRO-India, Max track-Brazil, Airbus, Honeywell. Government of India awarded the company Accord, the “First national award” in 1995. Accord systems have also developed world’s first GPS radio.

International Business Corporations commonly known as IBM, is a multinational Information technology, computer hardware, consulting organization. For the officials of IBM, it is nicknamed as “Big Blue”. It has its headquarters in New York and United States. The company is one of the very few information technology companies that was founded in the 19th century. IBM manufactures and simultaneously sells computer hardware and software.

Recently IBM is known as the world’s largest computer company. The company has a huge number of employees that round off to 3,88,000. IBM is US based company and for its high talented workforce, it is the largest information technology company in the world. It has its centers in 170 countries and it has 8 laboratories across the world. IBM is listed in the top 20 as a chip making leader and in the year 2007, IBM ranked second in the top list of largest IT companies.

Hexaware Technologies is a worldwide provider of Information technology and process outsourcing services. The company has a vast experience in controlling large IT applications and it also provides high value services such as SAP and peoplesoft. The company’s solutions provides high value by optimising cost of ownership of technology investments for its customers. Several 1000 global organizations has been the client of the company Hexaware.

The company’s aim is to provide solutions that translate into excellent business outcomes for their customers. The company’s both offshore and onsite delivery system provides a big cost savings. The development centers of Hexaware are rated as CMM level 5 and it is also an ISO 9001:2000 Company. Hexaware performs its operations in North America, Europe and Asia. Another thing about the company is that, it is a TickIT certified company.

Syntel is a famous business efficiency provider. The company helps its global 2000 customers remain at a good position of their industries with a great use of technology to operate their business more prominently. The company delivers a flexible information technology and business process outsourcing that improves the quality and reduces cost.

The company’s focus and priorities are different from their competition. They are working on the business for over 27 years and they have created custom solutions, they have improved their own efficiency. This all fact enabled them to grow from a small, local company to a global company. They have award winning development centers in both United States and India. They have structured their organization to give clients what they need. Overall, Syntel is a company devoted to exceeding the expectations of their customers.

Accenture is a global technology services and outsourcing company. It is USA based management consulting company. Accenture help thier clients to do a high performance business. The company has allmost 1,86,000 employees and it has it’s centers all over the world covering 120 countries. The company has made a revenue of approx. $24 billion for the year 2008.

The main strategy of the company Accenture is “High performance business” and the company helps it’s clients across the world to enter new markets, increase their revenues in the present market, improve their business operational performance and deliver their products more effectively. The main thing about the company is that they maintain a strong relationship with their clients. The company has partnerships with worls’s leading companies and it work with organizations including several “fortune global 100″ companies.

HCL Technologies Ltd. is the 4th largest Indian IT service provider. Hcl Enterprise is a $5 billion IT enterprise which consists of two major companies: one is HCL Technologies and another one is HCL Infosystems. HCL(Hindustan Cumputer Limited) is one of the very few Indian companies which has both hardware and software business. Hcl Technologies has various sectors like product Engineering, IT infrastructure services, financial services, automotive, telecom, media & entertainment etc. whereas HCL infosystems mainly operate its Hardware business.

The company has over 58,000 professionals and it has it’s centers across all over the world covering 20 countries. HCL has partnerships with a lot of leading IT and Technology firms. The company has made revenues of US$2 billion i.e allmost Rs. 8300 crores this year. Main thing about HCL technologies is that, it gives the employee satisfaction first.