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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos

Last updated on: July 13, 2012 18:32 IST


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As many as 13 Indian companies, including Infosys, HCL Technologies and Wipro are among top 100 outsourcing companies in the world.

According to a PTI report, in the latest '2012 Global Outsourcing 100', compiled by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, three Indian firms have found a place in the top 10, with Accenture heading the list.

To know about 13 Indian companies that made it to the list, read on. . .

Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos

Image: Infosys campus, Mysore.
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1. Infosys – Overall rank: 2

Infosys is the second largest IT company in India.

Infosys was co-founded in 1981 by N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N S Raghavan, S Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal, K Dinesh and Ashok Arora after they resigned from Patni Computer Systems.

Infosys is ranked 28th globally in the list of IT services providing firms.

Headquartered in Bengaluru, the company employs 149,994.

It has offices in 33 countries and development centers in India, China, Australia, UK, Canada, Brazil and Japan.

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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos


2. HCL Technologies -- Overall rank: 3

HCL Technologies Limited is an Indian provider of Information technology services and consulting company.

Headquartered in Noida, the company was founded by Shiv Nadar.

The company employs about 82,464.

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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos

Image: Wipro, Noida.
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3. Wipro Technologies – Overall rank: 7

Wipro Limited is an Indian multinational provider of Information technology services, consulting and outsourcing services.

The company was founded by M H Hasham Premji.

Headquartered in Bengaluru, the company has over 130,000 employees.

It has global centres across 54 countries.

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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos

Image: iGate Patni.
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4. iGATE Patni -- Overall rank: 18

iGATE Corporation (formally iGATE Patni) is a provider of IT services and business solutions, as a subsidiary of iGATE Corporation.

Headquartered in Bengaluru, the company has over 15,000 employees.

It has 23 international offices across the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as offshore development centres in eight cities in India.

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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos


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5. Firstsource -- Overall rank: 22

Headquartered in Mumbai, Firstsource provides customised business process management to customers in the Banking & Financial Services, customer services, Telecom & Media and Healthcare sectors.

Firstsource has operations in India, US, Ireland, UK, and Philippines.

In India it operates from Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Kolkata, Hubli, Trichy, Cochin, Vijayawada, Indore, Siliguri, Bhubaneshwar, Jalandhar and Bhopal.

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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos


6. WNS Global Services – Overall rank: 26

WNS (Holdings) Limited is a global Business Process Outsourcing company headquartered in Mumbai, India.

The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of WNS (Holdings) Limited, which is incorporated in Jersey, Channel Islands.

The company has about 23,000 employees.

WNS is headed by Eric Herr as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Keshav Murugesh as the Group CEO.

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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos


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7. Zensar Technologies – Overall rank: 53

Zensar Technologies is a global information technology services and business process outsourcer headquartered in Pune.
Zensar has a marketing presence in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia.

The company has operations and a customer base spanning across 18 countries and employs about 7,000.

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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos

Image: Engineers attend to calls from abroad inside a call centre in Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi.
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8. Hexaware Technologies -- Overall rank: 55

Hexaware Technologies Limited is an information technology and business process outsourcing service provider company based in Mumbai.

The company provides software services in airlines, banking and financial services and health care insurance sectors.

Founded by Atul Nishar, the company employs about 7,000.

Company operates from multiple offices in Japan, USA, Canada, Singapore, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany apart from India.

The company employs about 7,000.

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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos


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9. Infotech Enterprises -- Overall rank: 56

Infotech enterprises Limited is a global engineering services and solutions company headquartered in Hyderabad.

The company was founded by BVR Mohan Reddy.

It has more than 9,300 employees across 35 global locations as of March 2012.

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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos


10. NIIT Technologies -- Overall rank: 65

NIIT Technologies Limited is a global information technology solutions organization, servicing customers in North America, Europe, West Asia, Asia and Australia.

It offers services in Application Development and Maintenance, Managed Services, IP Asset or Platform Solutions, and Business Process Outsourcing to organisations in the Financial Services, Travel & Transportation, Manufacturing/Distribution, Healthcare and Government sectors.

Founded by Rajendra S Pawar and Vijay K Thadani, the company employs about 7,362 people.

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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos


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11. Aditya Birla Minacs -- Overall rank: 66

Aditya Birla Minacs is a business and technology outsourcing company.

The company is headquartered in Bengaluru.

It is a subsidiary of the Aditya Birla Group.

The company employs about 20,300 and has 35 operation centres in Canada, Germany, Hungary, India, Jamaica, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Minacs.

It provides the manufacturing, banking, financial services, insurance, telecom, high technology, media, and entertainment, healthcare, and government and public sectors with outsourced customer life cycle, marketing, finance and accounting, procurement and IT services.

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12. ITC Infotech -- Overall rank: 70

ITC Infotech is an IT services company headquartered in Bengaluru.

It was set up in 2000 and provides IT services to companies in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, including India.

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Infy, HCL, Wipro among world's top 10 outsourcing cos

Image: Corporate Office Noida.
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13. Birlasoft -- Overall rank: 72

Birlasoft is a Global Information Technology Services provider.

The company was founded in 1995.

It is headquartered in Noida with global workforce of over 4,000.

It operates across 5 continents and has delivery centres in Australia, India and USA.

The company provides software and consultancy to the banking, financial services, insurance and manufacturing industries.