Mphasis is an IT services company based in Bangalore, India. The company provides infrastructure technology and applications outsourcing services, as well as architecture guidance, application development and integration, and application management services. It serves financial services, telecom, logistics, and technology industries. Mphasis was ranked #7 in India IT companies and overall #189 by Fortune India 500 in 2019. In April 2016, Hewlett Packard Enterprise sold the majority of its stake in Mphasis to Blackstone Group LP for around US$1 billion.
History
Formation and early years
Mphasis was formed in June 2000 after the merger of the US-based IT consulting company Mphasis Corporation and the Indian IT services company BFL Software Limited. In June 2006Electronic Data Systems purchased a controlling stake in the company for $80 million and operated the company as an independent EDS unit.
On 13 May 2008, Hewlett-Packard confirmed that it had reached a deal with Electronic Data Systems to acquire the company for $13.9 billion. The deal was completed on 26 August 2008. In September 2009 Mphasis changed its brand identity by dropping EDS association to become "Mphasis, an HP Company" after HP retired EDS Brand to become "HP Enterprise Services". Mphasis operated as an independent HP subsidiary with its own board and continued to be listed on Indian markets as "Mphasis Limited". HP owned close to 62% in Mphasis and Mphasis got around 50% of its revenues from HP. Mphasis marked $1 billion in revenues and registered a consolidated revenue of Rs50.37 billion for the year ended 31 October 2010 becoming the sixth Indian IT company to do that. In February 2014, Mphasis changed its logo and the brand name as Mphasis Unleash the Next, seeking to boost business other than from parent Hewlett-Packard, its largest client. On 30 June 2015, Mphasis announced the signing of a definitive agreement to transfer a significant portion of its domestic business, to Hinduja Global Solutions. On 10 July 2015, Mphasis announced it will move 2,000 employees to Karvy Data Management Services Ltd as part of a deal signed to partially sell its domestic outsourcing business to Karvy.
Blackstone group – Mphasis
In 2016, after Hewlett-Packard announced plans to sell its controlling stakes in Mphasis, three companies Tech Mahindra, Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group entered the race to acquire Mphasis. Tech Mahindra emerged as the frontrunner before it decided to pull out in order to avoid a bidding war with other companies. In April 2016, it was announced that Blackstone had acquired 84 percent of Hewlett-Packard's stake in Mphasis in a deal worth between $1825 million and $2.32 billion. On 29 Jan 2017, Nitin Rakesh joined Mphasis as the Chief Executive Officer and Director. On 07 Aug 2018 Mphasis Board announced buyback offer for its shareholders at an approximate premium of 17.4%.
Services
Mphasis provides information technology services to its customers around the world. Mphasis provides integrated solutions that include business process outsourcing, infrastructure technology, and application services. The application services offered by the company includes application development as well as applications maintenance and support services. The markets served by the company are financial services and insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, government, transportation, communications, and consumer and retail industries.
Offices
Mphasis has more than 60 sales and delivery centers in 19 countries with delivery centers in India, China, Australia, Japan, North America and Europe. In India it has presence with operations in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Mangalore
