India's Largest Companies: IT Outsourcers Lead The Way

Infosys and its local rivals in India are some the largest IT outsourcers on the planet, and definitely the biggest in any emerging market. If you include New Jersey-based Cognizant in the mix, cofounded by Lakshmi Narayanan from Tata Consultancy, then six of the biggest IT services companies in the world are run by Indians. As it stands, five of the largest IT consultancies call India home. That's more than China, more than Ireland and France, and only two less than the United States if you consider the companies whose outsourcing practice is at the core of their business, like IBM for instance. India's biggest IT outsourcer of course is Tata Consultancy Services, ranked #404 on the Forbes Global 2000 list.