Infosys was founded in 1981 by N. R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora. It moved to Bangalore in 1983 and got its first foreign client, Data Basics Corporation from the US, in 1987. In 1992 it opened its first overseas sales office in Boston, US. This was followed by offices in Milton Keynes (1996), Toronto (1997), France and Hong Kong (2000), UAE and Argentina (2001), Netherlands, Singapore and Sweden (2002) and the list goes on until the present day at which point it has 64 offices and 68 development centres in India and abroad.
Infosys has revenues of US$ 6.825 billion (LTM Q3-FY12).Infosys delivers IT-enabled business solutions to enable Global 2000 companies to build their enterprises of tomorrow. Infosys ranked among the most innovative companies in a Forbes survey, leading technology companies in a report by The Boston Consulting Group and top ten green companies in Newsweek's Green Rankings. Infosys was voted India's most admired company in The Wall Street Journal Asia 200 every year since 2000. The corporate governance practices were recognized by The Asset Platinum award and the IR Global Rankings.
In 2001, it was rated by Business Today. Infosys was rated best employer to work for in 2000, 2001, and 2002 by Hewitt Associates. In 2007, Infosys received over 1.3 million applications and hired fewer than 3% of applicants.
Infosys won the Global MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises) award for the years 2003, 2004 and 2005, and is inducted into the Global Hall of Fame for the same.
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