Company profile microsoft

Microsoft India Private Limitedis a subsidiary of American software companyMicrosoft Corporation, headquartered inHyderabad, India. The company first entered theIndian marketin 1990 and has since worked closely with theIndian government, theIT industry, academia and the local developer community to usher in some of the early successes in the IT market. Microsoft currently has offices in the 13 cities ofAhmedabad,Bangalore,Chandigarh,Chennai,Coimbatore,Hyderabad,Indore,Jaipur,Kochi,Kolkata,Mumbai,New Delhi, andPune. Increasingly, the company has become a key IT partner of the Indian government and industry, supporting and fueling the growth of the local IT industry through its partner enablement programs. Since its entry into India, Microsoft has focused on three key objectives: To become a key IT partner of the Indian government and the local IT industry To support and fuel growth of the local IT industry through its partner enablement programs To use the Microsoft Unlimited Potential program to enhance education, jobs and opportunities and foster innovation through relevant, affordable access to computing.Microsoft in India employs about 5,000 people and has six business units representing the complete Microsoft product portfolio.Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman of Microsoft India, announced thatMicrosoftintends to provide free internet connectivity acrossIndia.[2]

Business Units[edit]Microsoft India operates the following six business units in India.[3]1. Microsoft India Sales Marketing and Services Group (SMSG)2. Microsoft Research India (MSR)3. Microsoft Global Services India (MGSI)4. Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC)5. Microsoft IT India (MSIT)6. Microsoft Global Technology Support Center (GTSC)

Microsoft India Development Center[edit]Located in Hyderabad, the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) is Microsofts largest software development center outside of their headquarters inRedmond, Washington. The MSIDC teams focus on strategic and IP sensitive software product development.[4]

Servers & Tools Microsoft Corporations Server & Tools division develops and markets Microsoft's infrastructure and developer software. The Server and Tools Business portfolio includes Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Virtualization products, System Center management products, and the Forefront line of business security products, among others. Under the direction of the US STB team, our engineers work on projects for diverse products as BizTalk Server & AppFabric Caching, System Center, and Windows Serve. Developer Tools Microsoft Corporations Visual Studio product line simplifies the entire development process from design to deployment. The prototyping, modeling and design tools help unleash creativity and transform visions to working software for individual developers and for teams. Coding is faster than ever before as the developer can leverage existing code and skills to write applications targeting platforms, including Windows Phone, SharePoint and Windows Azure applications. It enables developers and testers to work better together and save time with integrated testing and debugging tools. They can find and fix bugs quickly to make sure their solutions meet the highest possible quality standards. Our Developer Tools teams at MSIDC contributes to many parts of the Visual Studio product line, including features for Windows Phone development, manual and automated functional testing, load and performance testing, unit testing infrastructure, Lab Management and code coverage. These features are shipped as part of Visual Studio Ultimate, Visual Studio Premium, Visual Studio Test Professional and Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone.

Azure App Platform Microsoft AppFabric is a set of middleware technologies from Microsoft Corporation that enable easy development, deployment and lifecycle management of applications., Applications built on AppFabric are easily scalable in an 08elastic manner and can be run both on the cloud and the server through symmetric capabilities. Our Azure App Platform teams at MSIDC develop AppFabric technologies for distributed cache, integration and business agility. These technologies allow customers to build high scale applications that can bridge disparate environments while improving visibility and agility of their business processes. Cloud and Datacenter Management Microsoft Corporations System Center cloud and datacenter management solutions empower enterprise customers with a common management toolset for private and public cloud applications and services. System Center 2012TM delivers flexible and cost-effective private cloud infrastructure to business units in a self-service model, offers deep application insight and helps them deliver predictable application-service levels. System Center helps enterprise customers confidently deliver IT as a Service for their business. The Cloud and Datacenter Management team at MSIDC works on data protection, disaster recovery and application mobility capabilities for business applications as part of System CenterTM .

Online Services Division The Online Services Division at Microsoft Corporation focuses on empowering people with knowledge by computationally understanding user intent and matching it with software, services and advertising. Our Hyderabad and Bangalore based teams contribute to the development of adCenter and Bing product. adCenter adCenter is Microsoft Corporations online advertising platform. It enables advertisers to connect with target consumers across multiple digital touch points through both brand and direct marketing messages. The mission is to develop software that allows advertisers to reach the right audience, at the right time with the right message. It also aims at enabling publishers to monetize their assets while optimizing for end user experience of the publisher medium. The adCenter team, based at MSIDC Bangalore, is focused on engineering solutions for search ads monetization, i.e. paid search components such as advertiser engagement & optimization, system to manage advertiser quality & editorial policy compliance, engineering support for international rollout and the detection and removal of low quality ads (spam and malware) from the ad platform. Bing Bing is the new decision engine from Microsoft Corporation that finds and organizes your answers so that you can make faster, more informed decisions. It is the only search engine that pulls in your friends Facebook likes from news, celebrities and movies to bands and brands. The Bing team at Hyderabad contributes features and functionality across search platform and user experiences with the key areas of focus in Local, Weather, Autos, Events, Attractions, Finance, Recipes, Technology, Sports and Health segments. Microsoft IT MSIT is responsible for all activities related to running Microsoft Corporations worldwide internal technologies infrastructure, corporate and product information, product production and distribution, and maintaining key internal systems. The MSIT team in Hyderabad is the offshore arm of the Microsoft IT Engineering Divisions that comprise of a variety of niche technologies deployed in developing important business applications for Microsoft Corporation.

A VISION AND STRATEGY FOR THE FUTUREDiversity and inclusion are integral to Microsofts vision, strategy and business success.We recognize that leadership in todays global marketplace requires that we create a corporate culture and an inclusive business environment where the best and brightest diverse mindsemployees with varied perspectives, skills, and experiences--work together to meet global consumer demands. The collaboration of cultures, ideas, and different perspectives is an organizational asset and brings forth greater creativity and innovation.Learn about our commitment to global diversity and inclusion, including ourvision,strategy,and plans for the future. Understand why at Microsoft, global diversity and inclusion is a long term business-critical principle that is linked to the current and future success of our company.Microsoft is on an accelerated path of growth. We recognize that in order to achieve our aggressive leadership goals we must leverage the intellectual power and harness the creative energy of top, highly trained individuals from all regions of the world, and those from a wide range of diverse backgrounds.We actively seek to foster greater levels of diversity in our workforce by partnering with ouroutreach partnerswhich include academic institutions, professional organizations, and national advocacy groups, offering scholarships andyouth programsto encourage the study of technology and science and work with our senior executive leadership team to ensure that diversity and inclusive best practices are deeply embedded throughout our work environment. We know that these goals provide a solid foundation to creating a highly engaged workforce with a shared purpose of achieving Microsofts mission.

Microsoft and tcs

Microsoft India and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today announced a strategic alliance between the two companies to launch a Microsoft-TCS virtualization Center of Excellence (CoE) in Chennai. Designed to help customers experience the right approach to applying and managing virtualization across IT architectural layers (namely server, machine, application and desktop) in their business environments the CoE will leverage best of breed Microsoft technologies (such as Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008) to showcase virtualization scenarios to customers. The Microsoft-TCS virtualization CoE is a joint initiative by both the companies to accelerate the adoption of virtualization technology in India. {IslandAd} Virtualization is one of the most disruptive technologies in the world today. Though there is adequate knowledge on the benefits of virtualization - only 5 percent of the worlds servers are virtualized today. There is a clear gap between awareness and adoption of this technology which has emerged from the lack of guidance among customers around actual implementation of this technology and their inability to demystify the conceptual transition from physical to virtual environments. Through our partnership with TCS to launch the virtualization CoE, we will address this crucial market need and help customers land the benefits of virtualization technology in accordance with their business requirements, said Rajan Anandan (Managing Director, Microsoft India). The Microsoft-TCS virtualization CoE is an initiative aimed at enabling our customers rapidly realize the advantages of this revolutionary technology. Based on robust virtualization solutions from Microsoft the CoE will leverage best of breed technologies that are best suited to help our customers stay ahead in todays competitive market environment, said P. R. Krishnan (Vice President & Global Head IT Infrastructure Services, TCS).