CYBERSPACE
ACCENTURE
ORACLE
Accenture PLC is a global professional service
company which provides
strategy,
consulting,
digital, technology and
operations services. It has
been
integrated
in Dublin, Ireland. Being
the
world's
largest consulting firm as measured by revenues, and
being a Fortune Global 500 company , Accenture had
about 130,000 employees in India, more than in any
other country, as estimated in 2015. Accenture
common equity is listed on the New York Stock
Exchange, under the symbol ACN, and was added to
the S&P 500 index on 5 July 2011. In 2016, it was
named as the world's most admired Information
Technology Services company by Fortune magazine.
The Ethisphere Institute designated Accenture as one
of the World's Most ethical Companies for the 9th
time. The firm was named by Fortune magazine as
one of the top 100 companies to work for from 20092016.
Oracle
Corporation is an
American
multinational
computer technology corporation, having its
headquarters in California. Developing and
marketing database software and technology, cloud
engineered systems and enterprise software products
are the company's specializations. In 2011, Oracle
was the second-largest software maker by revenue,
after Microsoft. The company also develops and
builds tools for database development and systems of
middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning
(ERP) software, customer relationship management
(CRM) software and supply chain management
(SCM) software. Larry Ellison, a co-founder of
Oracle, served as Oracle's CEO from its founding
until September 18, 2014. Ellison became executive
chairman and CTO. He was ranked the top-paid chief
executive in the world on August 22, 2008, by the
Associated Press .
COGNIZANT
WIPRO
The company was incorporated in 1945, in Mumbai
by Mohamed Premji as
'Western
India
Palm
Refined
Oil
Limited',
which
was
later
abbreviated to 'Wipro'. It
was
initially
a
manufacturer of vegetable
and refined oils in Mumbai,
under the trade names of Kisan,
Sunflower and Camel. The logo of the company still
contains a sunflower to mirror products of the
original business. After Mohamed Premji’s death in
1966, his son Azim Premji returned home
from Stanford University and took over Wipro as
its chairman at the age of 21. Wipro demerged into
separate companies to bring in more focus on
independent businesses in 2013. It is one of India's
largest publicly traded companies and seventh largest
IT Corporation in the World. Wipro has been
recognized as the world’s most ethical company by
US-based Ethisphere Institute for the fourth
consecutive year, in 2015. The company won Gold
Award for ‘Integrated Security Assurance Service
(iSAS)’ under the ‘Vulnerability Assessment,
Remediation and Management’. It has also won 7
awards, including Best Managed IT Services and Best
System Integrator in the CIO Choice Awards 2015.
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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp is an American
multinational corporation that provides custom
information
technology,
consulting, and business
process
outsourcing
services. It was established
in 1994 and was initially
headquartered at Teaneck,
New Jersey, United States.
Cognizant began its journey
as
Dun & Bradstreet
Satyam
Software
(DBSS), established
as Dun & Bradstreet inhouse
technology unit focused on implementing large-scale
IT projects for Dun & Bradstreet businesses. In 1996,
the company started pursuing customers beyond Dun
& Bradstreet. In 1997, DBSS renamed itself to
Cognizant Technology Solutions. In the immediate
year, the parent company, Cognizant Corporation,
split into two companies: IMS Health and Nielsen
Media Research. After this restructuring, Cognizant
Technology Solutions became a public subsidiary of
IMS Health. Lakshmi Narayanan became the CEO in
2003. Gradually, the company's services portfolio
expanded across the IT services landscape and into
business process outsourcing (BPO) and business
consulting. Cognizant experienced a period of fast
growth during the 2000s. It has been featured on
Fortune
magazine's
"100
Fastest-Growing
Companies" list for ten consecutive years from 2003
to 2012. In September 2014, Cognizant struck its
biggest deal, acquiring healthcare IT services
provider TriZetto Corp for $2.7 billion. Its Shares
rose nearly 3 percent in premarket trading
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