The Top 20 IT Consulting and Services Companies of 2022

1. Company: IBM
Location: Armonk, New York

The International Business Machines Company, better known as IBM, remains one of the top companies when it comes to business technology. Its products and services span from mainframe computers to nanotechnology, and its specializations include cloud computing, artificial intelligence, commerce, data and analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), IT infrastructure, mobile, digital workplace, and cybersecurity. Its longevity in the industry is unmatched, and as a result, IBM has become synonymous with technological excellence.

Now in its 100th year of doing business, IBM is made up of nearly 350,000 employees and generates annual revenue approaching $100 billion. In the past two decades, it has made significant acquisitions including PwC Consulting in 2002, SPSS in 2009, The Weather Company in 2016, Red Hat in 2019, and Nordcloud in 2020.

2. Company: Tata Consultancy Services
Location: Mumbai, India

By the latest reckonings, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Mumbai is the largest and most valuable IT services provider in the world. It’s no understatement to say that TCS possesses top-level talent on a wide variety of IT services, but it is perhaps best known for its work in application development and management as well as its work in enterprise solutions and outsourcing, particularly its lauded enterprise application TCS Crystallus.

With nearly 300 offices and 150 delivery centers worldwide, TCS has posted impressive financial gains even during the time of COVID-19, with operating income in excess of $6 billion as of 2021. TCS cloud platforms are fostering development across Asia, and the company’s ADD Safety software was recently granted an award for using AI to radically improve pharmacological outcomes.

3. Company: Accenture
Location: Dublin, Ireland

Accenture is a multinational consulting and processing firm that employs over half a million individuals worldwide. A Fortune Global 500 company in its own right, Accenture has developed a reputation for excellence in the field of IT services, working with 91 of the Forbes Global 100 companies. Accenture has made a name for itself in environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) consulting, helping clients around the world work together to reach the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Accenture has long been hailed as a model of corporate responsibility—in addition to its development partnerships aimed at boosting digital innovation in developing countries, it’s a 19-time honoree on Fortune’s “Most Admired Companies” list. And all signs point to continued success in Accenture’s future, judging by its strong financial outlook for 2021 and its Accenture Interactive platform’s sixth consecutive designation as Ad Age’s “World’s Largest Digital Agency Network."

4. Company: Deloitte
Location: London, United Kingdom

Professional services network Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (commonly referred to as simply “Deloitte”) continues to set the bar high for services including analytics and cloud computing. It’s hard to find something at which this standout star of professional advising is less than excellent, from business strategy and data analytics to risk assessment and enterprise technology, with the firm’s AI Institute being a standout in the world of artificial intelligence research and development.

Deloitte is a storied institution that traces its roots back to its founding in 1845. Currently, Deloitte is regarded as one of the largest professional services networks in the world, with annual aggregated revenue nearing $50 billion, and the company is highly respected for its forecasts regarding the world of technology and work.

5. Company: Cognizant
Location: Teaneck, New Jersey

As an industry leader in business consulting, outsourcing, and information technology solutions, Cognizant has long been hailed for its results and resilience. With nearly 300,000 employees working from home since March 2020, Cognizant continues to expand its reputation for quality digital solutions and workplace innovation, with particular focus on its Work Ahead AI action and research initiative.

Initially an in-house tech unit for data analytics firm Dun & Bradstreet, Cognizant has achieved remarkable growth over the past decades, rising to the top 200 of the Fortune 500 list last year. Since 2018, Cognizant has also been at the forefront of using blockchain technologies to facilitate secure data sharing between companies.

6. Company: Capgemini
Location: Paris, France

Digital transformation and consulting company Capgemini works to bring innovative solutions to corporate clients around the world. Included in its wide range of expertise are achievements in the fields of AI, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure development, and business operations. Capgemini’s revolutionary Platform AI and analytics portfolio is a standout example of how the firm has been able to offer scaled data transformation at an unmatched level.

Capgemini operated as a small data processing firm from its launch in 1967 until its acquisitions of computer and data companies in the United States in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Now, more than 50 years into its history, Capgemini boasts more than 270,000 employees in dozens of countries and was recently honored by Guidewire Services’ PEAK Matrix Assessment for “Setting the Key Phase on Cloud.”

7. Company: Wipro
Location: Bangalore, India

Indian IT stalwart Wipro, not content with only making history in its first seven decades, is pushing the world forward in sustainable, people-first technology solutions. The company provides top-of-the-line IT services focused on cloud computing, with its smart, scalable marketplace program Cloud Studio setting a new standard for actionable cloud-driven outcomes. Meanwhile, Wipro’s AI platform HOLMES continues to raise the bar for enterprise automation.

Wipro has set the pace for IT development in the South Asia region since its inception in 1945, hitting notable milestones including the first ISO 14001-certified IT company in India. The company continues to break new ground in the 21st century, consistently being ranked at the top of the NASDAQ and Greenpeace rankings of sustainability-minded enterprises.

8. Company: Infosys
Location: Bangalore, India

Multinational information technology firm Infosys Limited is India’s premier purveyor of business consulting and outsourcing services. Its game-changing services are driven by its next-generation AI platform NIA and analytics software Infosys Information Platform, used to help transform banks and other enterprise clients around the world through a wide array of acceleration services.

Launched by seven engineers with only $250 in capital in the early ‘80s, Infosys has grown to dominate the market with its independent development and maintenance services. Now, with a market capitalization over $70 billion as of 2020, Infosys is a major player in the Forbes Global 2000 and India’s second-largest IT company.

9. Company: HCL Technologies
Location: Noida, India

HCL Technologies is an Indian IT services and consulting company that is raising the bar for what can be accomplished with forward-thinking technology. Working to bring digital solutions to public and private entities the world over, HCL Technologies is recognized as one of India’s highest-earning publicly traded companies. Its standout services are grouped into digital operations, digital business, and digital foundation suites, with particular focus on integrated operations and unified service management services.

Originally the research and development division of HCL Enterprise, HCL Technologies was launched as an independent company in 1991, and has grown by leaps and bounds ever since. With offices in 45 countries specializing in infrastructure, as well as nine targeted business lines, HCL Technologies continues to push the boundaries of success with its recent cybersecurity and power grid collaborations with IBM and Hitachi.

10. Company: Leidos
Location: Reston, Virginia

Leidos was formed in 2013, after SAIC effectively split into two publicly traded companies. At the time, the business that would become Leidos was generating an estimated $7 billion annually in revenue. In August of 2016, it then merged with Lockheed Martin's to create the defense industry’s largest IT services provider. Today, Leidos is a Fortune 500 information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets.

The company’s 40,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $12.30 billion for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2021.

11. Company: Tech Mahindra
Location: Pune, India

Global IT consulting and services firm Tech Mahindra continues to push at the boundaries of technological innovation and outsourcing solutions. Fueled by its next-level strategic digital transformation platform TechMNXt, and carried out through its revolutionary DigitAll philosophy that aims at simultaneously transforming clients’ products, services, processes, and business models, Tech Mahindra provides a thorough portfolio of services and solutions for clients in dozens of industries.

Tech Mahindra has had outsourcing achievements written in its DNA since it was first launched in 1986 with British Telecom. After nearly four decades of growth and expansion, Tech Mahindra now has offices in more than 60 countries, and the company has been on the forefront of the healthcare issues and rise of digital work that have characterized the time of COVID-19, recently co-filing a patent on a coronavirus-attacking molecule.

12. Company: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Location: Houston, Texas

The outgrowth of Hewlett-Packard’s most innovative teams, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a Houston-based IT services company that features standout products related to software, cloud services, and IT infrastructure. The company has grown to revolutionize the field of IT services with its landmark HPE Pointnext Services, leveraging the greatest advances in data with a fully personalized IT service experience.

Though it was only 2015 when Hewlett Packard Enterprise spun off from the legendary Hewlett-Packard company, itself founded in the 1930s, by 2018 the newer IT company was already recognized in the top 200 of Fortune 500 companies by total revenue. Apart from its groundbreaking work in personal computing and theoretical supercomputing, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has blazed new trails in its work with hybrid cloud services.

13. Company: DXC Technology
Location: Tysons, Virginia

Independent end-to-end IT services company DXC Technology is changing the game for modern digital operations and systems. With its signature Enterprise Technology Stack, DXC offers its clients a comprehensive system for managing everything from analytics and applications to IT outsourcing and modern workplace matters. This last issue has become of particular import during the era of work from home, and DXC currently helps manage more than seven million devices to facilitate employee safety and efficiency.

DXC was launched in the wake of the merger between CSC and HP’s Enterprise Services, and now brings more than six decades of experience to bear on delivering digital enterprise solutions. It leverages that legacy of excellence to bring in $20 billion in annual revenue and thousands of customers the world over.

14. Company: Protiviti
Location: Menlo Park, California

Protiviti is a global consulting firm comprised of independent and locally owned Member Firms. It provides clients with consulting and managed solutions in technology, operations, finance, data, analytics and other areas. It operates through a network of more than 85 offices in over 25 countries.

Protiviti was formed in 2002 when the Company hired more than 700 professionals who had been affiliated with the internal audit, business and technology risk consulting practice of Arthur Andersen, LLP including more than 50 individuals who had been partners of that firm.

15. Company: Atos
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia

Specializing in developing and supporting knowledge and education in the world of technology, global computing and cybersecurity giant Atos boasts more than 110,000 employees and billions of euros in revenue. From its offices in over 70 countries, Atos works at the forefront of the field of information technology, providing solutions for satellite monitoring and quantum computing, among other ventures. One of Atos’ recent developments that is making the world a greener place is its Digital Decarbonization Assessment service, providing global clients the means to reduce emissions.

From its origins in 1997, Atos has long represented the height of technological achievement through collaboration and mergers between dozens of international tech firms. In addition to its other standout achievements, Atos is the official Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

16. Company: BT Global Services
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

BT Global Services provides security and networking solutions to clients in 180 countries. Among its areas of specialization in helping multinational companies transform their digital presence are cloud migration and customer service systems, all of which include integrated top-tier security strategies that defend BT products from over a million cyberattacks and other threats annually.

As a division of UK telecommunications giant BT Group, BT Global Services has developed an extensive history of success stories. Named a leader for 17 years in a row by Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Services, BT Global Services has transformed its success into record annual revenue in excess of five billion pounds.

17. Company: CGI
Location: Montreal, Canada

CGI, Canada’s premier IT consulting and systems integration company, works with multinational entities in industries from aerospace to public safety. Some of CGI’s specialties include IT outsourcing, business process systems, application services, and IT infrastructure.

Founded in 1976 and having doubled in size during two notable periods in its history, CGI has won numerous awards for innovation and leadership over the past four and a half decades. In addition to its normal operations for business clients, CGI has worked with federal agencies and nonprofits including the U.S. Navy and USAID to develop cloud infrastructure and increased cybersecurity operations.

18. Company: Xerox
Location: Norwalk, Connecticut

A pioneering company that transformed the way the world does business, Xerox continues to set the standard for advanced technology in the workplace. Apart from its reputation for reliable, high-quality products, Xerox is also a powerful figure when it comes to IT solutions for businesses of all sizes, offering proprietary service portfolios for

its own products as well as fulfilling other enterprise needs.
Stories of the early days of Xerox are the stuff of legend in the IT world, from the perfection of photocopying technology and modern business computing to inventing radical new business strategies. Now the company continues to raise the bar for small business automation services with a complete suite of managed IT services.

19. Company: Fujitsu
Location: Tokyo, Japan

The world’s fourth-largest IT services provider as of 2018, IT and telecommunications giant Fujitsu needs no introduction. With continual advancements in data storage, retail electronics, and research, Fujitsu remains at the forefront of theoretical and applied IT. The capstone of the company’s current service offerings is its top-of-the-line multi-cloud ecosystem orchestration and transformation.

Founded in 1935 as part of the Fuji Electric Company, Fujitsu has broken barriers in the world of technology for the better part of a century. Among its current ventures are new groundbreaking supercomputer projects and an enterprise to improve hand-washing compliance through AI, both of which should help carry the storied IT firm into another hundred years of progress and prosperity.

20. Company: Sopra Steria
Location: Paris, France

Digital services and software development firm Sopra Steria is a French multi-billion-euro leader in the world of IT services. Sopra Steria is widely known and celebrated for its software products in the worlds of property management, banking, and human resources, but its field of expertise also includes advanced technology services as well as business process services.

Created through a merger of IT firms Sopra and Steria in 2014, Sopra Steria has taken on a heightened profile in the post-Brexit world, with a massive partnership with the United Kingdom’s Department of Health yielding great challenges and greater success for the French IT conglomerate.