IT industry is the leading one among all, and we need to admit that it has become quite impossible to work without using computer software, independent of the nature of the work. The raised demand for software and other IT services has also increased the number of companies that are available 24*7 for providing those software development services to those companies. Zensar Technologies is one of the leading IT service providers of India, which is not only offering various software products and digital engineering to Indian companies but also different enterprises across the globe. In the past thirty years, the company has expanded to over twenty countries on all the continents.
The software services from Zensar Technologies include experience design and engineering, digital engineering, application transformation, data engineering, Oracle services, SalesForce services, digital infrastructure, digital security, etc. The major service areas for the company are Hi-tech and manufacturing, Banking and financial services, Insurance Retail, and consumer services.
About the Company
Zensar Technologies is a 30 years old Indian software company. It is a publically held company and trades on the Bombay Stock Exchange as well as the National Stock Exchange of India. The company headquarters is based in Pune, India, and it is a subsidiary company of the RPG Group. It handles the software development wing for the latter. The company services include digital supply chain, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, data management, enterprise applications, etc. Before becoming Zensar Technologies, it was known as International Computers Limited India, with a history as old as 1922. Today, over 10,000 people are working for Zensar, and as per 2021 records, the company made annual revenues worth US$494.0 million.
Founding Zensar Technologies
Zensar Technologies started its software development journey in 1991, as International Computers Limited (ICIL). The company history dates back to 1922 when it was just a manufacturing unit of a British original equipment manufacturing firm. In later years, the unit became ICIM (International Computers Indian Manufacture), and in 1963, it went public on the Bombay Stock Exchange. ICIM started to focus more on software starting from 1991 and closed its hardware manufacturing unit by 1999.
In 2001, ICIM received its new name, Zensar Technologies, with most of its shares being held by the RPG Group. As Zensar, the company began to provide application management services to its clients. In the following years, the company started its growth through multiple acquisitions. It acquired companies including OBT global (2005), ThoughtDigital (2007), Akibia Inc (2010), EZA (2013), Professional Access Inc (2014), Foolproof, Inc. (2016), Keystone Logic (2017), Indigo Slate(2018), Cynosure INC (2018), M3bi (2021), etc.
In 2012, about 11000 people were working for Zensar, and it started to serve globally. In fact, by 2018, Zensar had opened offices in 20 different countries in North America, the UK, various parts of Europe and South Africa. The innovative work of Zensar Technologies has won many recognitions for it, including Niche Player 2019 for managed mobility services by Gartner Magic Quadrant and BIG Innovation Award for Technology in 2021.
The CEO/Founder at Zensar Technologies
Ajay S. Bhutoria is the current CEO and the Managing Director at Zensar Technologies. Bhutoria has more than 30 years of work experience and has worked at various well-established companies on all the continents.
Bhutoria happens to be a Charted Accountant by qualification but started his career as a Solution Architect at Software Research Centre Ltd., ICAI. Later he joined TCS (Netherlands) and worked for ten years in various positions at the company. In 2002, Bhutoria switched to Cognizant and became the Global Head of Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel & Hospitality at the company. He also became the Chief Executive at L&T in 2019 and remained so for ten months. In January 2021, Bhutoria became the CEO and MD of Zensar Technologies and held the Princeton, New Jersey, United States office of the company.
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