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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. - 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 HIMAJA CH. (ECE B 2/4) , NIDHI P.N.N.N (CSE C 2/4)