JOURNEY OF AN
INDIAN
EN TREPREN EUR
ASNEAK PEEK
TO THE BEGINNING OF
DATAMATICS
Preface
Our mission
"To Enhance Business Efficiency through Smart Solutions"
Early years
Dr. Lalit Kanodia was born in
1941 into a business family in
Kolkata.
He graduated from IIT- Bombay
and went abroad for his higher
studies. After his Masters
Degree in MIT, he came back
to India for a brief period and
met with JRD Tata who asked
him to study the feasibility of
computerization of the Tata
group.
In 1967, he setup Tata
Computer Center which is
known today as TCS.
After successfully guiding and
directing the company for about
8 years.
Entrepreneurial bug
Lalit was smitten by the
entrepreneurial bug as he could not
see himself as an employee.
Datamatics was setup in 1975 with
a staff strength of 10 operating out
of SBI building in Fort, Mumbai. It
initially offered services for Data
Processing and Payroll.
The day we hit big
In 1979 when Datamatics setup a
dedicated offshore development
center for WANG laboratories.
Wang Labs was fastest growing
computer company in USA. We tied
up with Wang and started selling
their computers in India.
Thereafter after they gave us a
break to develop an Arabic Word
Processing System. It was our first
software development assignment!
We successfully delivered it and
they were absolutely astounded..
Wang sold lot of their machines to
the Gulf countries and started
pushing their distributors to use
Datamatics for developing
softwares.
No lookingback
In 1991, Datamatics setup the
country’s first satellite link for
transfer of data between Mumbai
and USA for AT&T Bell Labs. This
facilitated the foundation of
Business Process Outsourcing
(BPO) services in India.
In 1992, Datamatics launched an E-
publishing company in India.
A new leader rises
In 1991, Datamatics setup the
country’s first satellite link for
transfer of data between Mumbai
and USA for AT&T Bell Labs. This
facilitated the foundation of
Business Process Outsourcing
(BPO) services in India.
In 1992, Datamatics launched an E-
publishing company in India.