Tatas are the largest IT Group in India: DQ Top 20 

The Tata Group has toppled HCL as the top Indian IT giant in this year's
Dataquest Top 20. In a reshuffle at the top of the Indian IT industry's charts,
Wipro climbed to the #2 position, with HCL taking the #3. The pre-merger Compaq
went down one spot to #5, giving space to Infosys Technologies. The annual IT
industry study is being published by Dataquest in four volumes during
July-August.

Even on the high revenue base of the previous year, the Tata Group's IT
revenues grew an impressive 25 percent to post Rs 4,803 crore in fiscal 2001-02.
The only other giant in the Top 5 to score double-digit growth was Infosys (37
percent) that saw its revenues touch Rs 2,604 crore. Satyam, IBM, Tech Pacific,
HP and Redington completed the Top 10 list in the Indian IT industry for fiscal
2001-02. (Since HP and Compaq were separate companies in 2001-02, the two
entities were not combined in this listing.)

The Top five Groups cornered 26 percent of the overall industry revenue.
Adding up all the other Tata IT companies including the newly-acquired CMC, took
the revenue sum to Rs 5,523 crore--16 percent of the Top 20 revenue and 10
percent of the total industry figure. And that's not including another chunk
that should come in this year, the ISP revenues of VSNL, estimated at Rs 260
crore for last year.

The Rs 5,523 crore came from TCS (Rs 4,187 crore), Tata Infotech (Rs 484
crore), CMC (Rs 555 crore), Tata Elxsi (Rs 132 crore), Tata Technologies (Rs 100
crore), Tata Interactive (Rs 40 crore) and Nelito Systems (Rs 25 crore).

While the Top 10 merely exchanged positions, the remaining 10 had three new
players marking their entry. This included Intel at #12, NIIT at #18 and Moser
Baer at #20. Paving the way for the new entrants were Aptech, Cognizant and CMC
(now part of TCS after the buyout).

According to the DQ analysis, the Indian IT industry for 2001-02 has moved up
in sized to $ 13.2 billion. As usual, software exports contributed the highest
with $ 6.2 billion, closely followed by the domestic market at $ 5.1 billion. It
was the IT-enabled services segment that witnessed a phenomenal growth of 73
percent, followed by software exports at 19 percent, hardware services at 16
percent, networking at 10 percent and peripherals completing the growth sectors
with six percent.

On the other hand, packaged software, storage, systems, servers and training
experienced a decline in growth, with training being hit the most with a 37
percent dip in business last year.

Cyber News Service