Tata Consultancy Services, India’s leading outsourcing firm, does not expect volume growth in the December quarter to match the September quarter as companies are still deciding on IT budgets, a senior official said.
However pricing, which was a big concern towards the end of the previous fiscal year, was no longer such a major issue, Chief Financial Officer S Mahalingam told the Reuters India Investment Summit on Monday.
“As far as this quarter is concerned, it will certainly be a growth quarter. But we don’t believe it will be the same growth, in terms of volume, as the previous quarter,” Mahalingam said.
Customer budgets had been tight for almost a year due to the global financial crisis and economic downturn, but now signs were that potential customers
were looking at outsourcing as a way to better manage their services better, he said.
“I would say that the pricing pressure is certainly not felt intensely at this point in time,” he said
TCS has sales of $6 billion in sales in 2008/09 (April/March). The IT outsourcing sector is seeing a pick-up in business as companies win large deals and pricing pressure eases after core financial clients had cut spending in the downturn.
Part of the diversified Tata Group, which straddles the commodities, automobiles, metals and IT industries, Tata Consultancy counts Citigroup, General Electric, General Motors
and Ferrari among its clients.
Shares in Tata Consultancy, valued at $28 billion, have almost tripled so far this year, outpacing a 73 per cent rise in the main index.
Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/ites/TCS-sees-slower-Dec-quarter-volume-growth/articleshow/5261405.cms
