This document provides information on three major companies - Apple Inc., Wipro Limited, and Infosys. It discusses their types, industries, key founders and people, services, revenues, employees, and other details. Apple is an American company known for products like the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers. Wipro is an Indian IT services company with over 115,000 employees. Infosys is also an Indian IT company founded in 1981 with over 122,000 employees providing consulting and outsourcing services.
3. Apple Inc.
• Type : Public
• Industry : Computer hardware
Computer software
Consumer electronics
Digital distribution
• Predecessor : Apple Computer, Inc. (January 9, 2007)
• Founded : Cupertino ,California ,U.S.(April 1,1976)
• Founder(s) : Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
Ronald Wayne
• Headquarters : Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, U.S.
• Area Served : Worldwide
• Services : Stores(retail, online, App, iTunes,iBooks)
MobileMe.
4. • Key people : Steve Jobs(Co-founder, Chairman, CEO)
Tim Cook(COO)
Peter Oppenheimer(CFO)
Bob Mansfield(Mac and iPhone Hardware Engg.)
Jonathan Lve(Industrial Design)
• Products : Mac(Pro, Mini . iMac . MackBook, Air, ProXserve),
iPod(Shuffle,Nano,Classic,Touch), iPhone(Original .
3G . 3GS . 4), iPad, Apple TV, accessories,Mac
OS-X(server), iLife, iWork, iOS.
• Revenue : $65.23 billion(2010)
• Profit : $14.01 billion(2010)
• Employees : 49,400(2010)
• Website : Apple.com
• N0. of Locations : 300 (August 2010)
5. • Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL; previously Apple Computer,
Inc.) is an American multinational corporation that designs and
markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers.
The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line
of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes
the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite
of multimedia and creativity software; the iWork suite of productivity
software; Aperture, a professional photography package; Final Cut Studio,
a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products; Logic
Studio, a suite of music production tools; the Safari internet browser;
and iOS, a mobile operating system. As of August 2010, the company
operates 301 retail stores in ten countries, and an online store where
hardware and software products are sold. As of May 2010, Apple is one of
the largest companies in the world and the most valuable technology
company in the world, having surpassed Microsoft.
6. • Established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and
incorporated January 3, 1977, the company was previously named Apple
Computer, Inc., for its first 30 years, but removed the word "Computer" on
January 9, 2007, to reflect the company's ongoing expansion into
the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on
personal computers. As of September 2010, Apple had 46,600 full time
employees and 2,800 temporary full time employees worldwide and had
worldwide annual sales of $65.23 billion.
• For reasons as various as its philosophy of comprehensive
aesthetic design to its distinctive advertising campaigns, Apple has
established a unique reputation in the consumer electronics industry. This
includes a customer base that is devoted to the company and its brand,
particularly in the United States. Fo rtune magazine named Apple the most
admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world in 2008,
2009, and 2010. The company has also received widespread criticism for
its contractors' labor, environmental, and business practices.
7. Wipro Limted
• Type : Public
• Industry : IT services
IT consulting
• Founded : 1945
• Founder(s) : M. H. Premji
• Headquarters : Bangalore, Karnataka, India
• Key people : Azim Premji (Chairman)
Girish Paranjpe (joint CEO)
Suresh Vaswani (joint CEO)
• Services : Application Development and Maintenance
BPO
Product Engineering Solutions
Technology Infrastructure Services
Consulting
9. • Wipro Ltd is a giant information technology Services
Corporation headquartered in Bangalore, India. According to
the 2008–09 revenue, Wipro is one of the largest IT services
company in India and employs more than 115,900 people
worldwide as of September 2010.It has interests varying from
information technology, consumer care, lighting, engineering
and healthcare businesses. It is 9th most valuable brand in
India according to an annual survey conducted by Brand
Finance and The Economic Times in 2010. Azim Premji is the
Chairman of the board.
10. Major Divisions
• IT Services: Wipro provides complete range of IT Services to the organization. The
range of services extends from Enterprise Application Services (CRM, ERP, e-
Procurement and SCM) to e-Business solutions. Wipro's enterprise solutions serve
a host of industries such as Energy and Utilities, Finance, Telecom, and Media and
Entertainment.
• Product Engineering Solutions: Wipro is the largest independent provider of
R&D services in the world. Using "Extended Engineering" model for leveraging
R&D investment and accessing new knowledge and experience across the globe,
people and technical infrastructure, Wipro enables firms to introduce new products
rapidly..
• Technology Infrastructure called as TIS provides remote infrastructure
management solutions and services. Wipro Technologies achieves this through a
Global Command Centre (GCC) which consolidates services and resources in one
place and centrally manage them. It is a true enabler for the company for providing
services in infrastructure management.
11. Wipro BPO
• Wipro BPO employs over 22,000, of whom 3,150 are at its Hyderabad
campus. The planned new recruitments will be from among science and
commerce graduates and under-graduates.
• The majority of Wipro BPO’s business comes from the US, followed by
Europe. The rest of the world contributes only marginally to its top line.
The company posted a turnover of $290 million in FY08.
• Founded in 2002, Wipro BPO has operations in Delhi, Pune, Kolkata,
Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Navi-Mumbai (Belapur) Greater Noida and
Kochi in India. It also has offices in Shanghai and Cebu in Asia and
Curittiba in Brazil and Wroclaw in Poland. It has 44 clients in segments
such as banking & capital markets, insurance, travel & hospitality, hi-tech
manufacturing, telecom and healthcare.
12. Infosys Technologies Limited
• Type : Public
• Industry : IT services
• IT consulting
• Founded : 2 July 1981
• Founder(s) : N R Narayana Murthy
Nandan Nilekani
N. S. Raghavan
Kris Gopalakrishnan
S. D. Shibulal
K Dinesh
Ashok Arora
• Headquarters : Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Key people : N R Narayana Murthy(Chairman)
Kris Gopalakrishnan(CEO & MD)
S. D. Shibulal(COO & Director)
13. • Products : Finacle
• Services : Information technology consulting services,
solutions and outsourcing.
• Revenue : Rs 21,140 crore (US$4.67 billion)
(31st March, 2010)
• Profit: Rs 5,803 crore (US$1.28 billion) (2010)
• Employees : 122,468 (2010)
• Divisions : Infosys BPO
Infosys Consulting
Infosys Public Services
Infosys Australia
Infosys Brazil
Infosys China
Infosys Mexico
Infosys Sweden
• Website : Infosys.com
14. Infosys Technologies Limited
Infosys was founded on 2 July 1981 by seven entrepreneurs, N R
Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, Kris Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal,
K Dinesh and with N. S. Raghavan officially being the first employee of
the company. The founders started the company with an initial investment
of INR 10,000. The company was incorporated as "Infosys Consultants Pvt
Ltd." in Model Colony, Pune as the registered office.
Infosys went public in 1993. Interestingly, Infosys IPO was under
subscribed but it was bailed out by US investment banker Morgan Stanley
which picked up 13% of equity at the offer price of Rs. 95 per share.The
share price surged to Rs. 8,100 by 1999. By the year 2000 Infosys's shares
touched Rs. 110 before the catastrophic incident of September 11th,
changed all that.
15. According to Forbes magazine, since listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange
till the year 2000, Infosys' sales and earnings compounded at more than
70% a year. In the year 2000, President of the United States Bill Clinton
complimented India on its achievements in high technology areas citing the
example of Infosys. Infosys will invest $100 million (Rs 440 crore) on
establishing a 20,000-seater campus in Shanghai.
Research
• Infosys developed a corporate R&D wing called Software Engineering and
Technology Labs (SETLabs). SETLabs was founded in 2000 to carry out
applied research for the development of processes, frameworks and
methodologies to effectively capture customer requirements and to iron out
common critical issues during a project life cycle.Various broad groups are
Software Engg Lab, Convergence Lab, Innovation Lab, Center for KDIS,
Security and Privacy Lab and Distributed Computing Lab.