Cmc ltd

CMC Limited

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	IT services, IT consulting
Founded	26 December 1975
Headquarters	New Delhi, India
Key people	N Chandrasekaran (Chairman) R.Ramanan (CEO & MD) JK Gupta (CFO)
Services	IT, business consulting and outsourcing services
Revenue	₹25,135 million (US$370 million) (2014-15)
Net income	₹2,771 million (US$41 million) (2014-15) (Profit After Tax)
Number of employees	12,665 (2014-15)
Parent	Tata Consultancy Services
Website	www.cmcltd.com

CMC Limited is an information technology services, consulting and software company having its headquarters in New Delhi, India. CMC is part of the TATA Group and is owned by Tata Consultancy Services. CMC was incorporated on 26 December 1975, as the 'Computer Management Corporation Private Limited'. The Government of India held 100 per cent of the equity share capital and owned by government of India. On 19 August 1977, it was converted into a public limited company. In October 2001, CMC was privatized by the Government of India, in a sale to India-based Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the largest software services company in Asia. It also features on top ten companies in India.

During the year 1978,India, CMC took over the maintenance of IBM installations at over 800 around India and subsequently, maintenance of computers supplied by other foreign players.

CMC anticipated the market demand for IT system improvements in 1980 and directed its efforts to respond to the government's activities and needs for such services. 'Project Interact' (International Education and Research for Applications of Computer Technology), a United Nations project involving design, development and systems-engineering, computer-based systems applications in the areas of power distribution, railway freight operations management and meteorology transitioned the company from a hardware maintenance company to a broad IT solutions provider.

CMC later expanded its services to systems integration, interfacing, installation, commissioning, software development, as well as education and training. CMC's R&D facility was set up in 1982 at Hyderabad. CMC was renamed CMC Limited (Computer Maintenance Corporation) in August 1984.

CMC Limited has the credit of introducing computer applications at a mass scale in the late 80s with its design and deployment of Indian Railways Reservation System IMPRESS (Integrated Multi-train Passenger Reservation System) in New Delhi on 15 October 1985. It went on to become a huge success eventually deployed all over India serving over half a million transactions every single day and cutting wait times for passengers drastically. CMC also followed it up with the design of ARTS (Advanced Railway Ticketing System) for unreserved ticketing.

Following a spurt in the global demand for IT services in the early 1990s, particularly in the United States, CMC decided to expand its operations and market its product and service offerings in these markets. Towards this end, in 1991, CMC acquired Baton Rouge International Inc, USA (it was subsequently renamed CMC Americas, Inc, in 2003), one of the first cross-border acquisitions by an Indian IT firm.