needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . october 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message torry harris business solutions type private industry it services it consulting founded 1998 1998 headquarters new jersey united states incorporation bangalore bristol dublin vienna munich dubai area served worldwide number of employees 1000 3000 slogan better technology better businesses website thbs.com torry harris business solutions thbs is a multinational provider of business technology and consulting services headquartered in new jersey united states . contents 1 history 2 operations 3 in the news 4 industry accolades 5 references 6 external links history edit the founding members of torry harris business solutions belonged to a company called transarc a pittsburgh based software company . transarc was purchased by ibm in 1994 . several former members from transarc formed torry harris . torry harris business solutions was founded in 1998 to offer it services in the middleware and distributed computing areas . on 19 march 1998 the company was formally registered as torry harris business solutions . operations edit this section needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . may 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message the company s headquarters in new jersey usa address was incorporated in 1998 . thbs american clients are serviced out of this office and the facility in bangalore . thbs has operations 1 and projects in 39 countries world wide . in 2002 thbs singapore and dubai offices were set up to cater to the middle east and asia pac geographies . in 2008 the company expanded its operations to africa . thbs operates in tanzania . thbs helped provide farmers with regular updates regarding weather conditions through low speed mobile networks . a uk office in bristol was set up in 2001 to service thbs increasing presence in the uk . a few years later in 2008 the ireland office was set up as operations expanded . in 2012 an austria office was set up in vienna austria to cater to the central and eastern european markets . in austria & eastern europe thbs works with a large bank telecom service providers pharmaceutical majors and manufacturing companies . in the news edit in 2010 a stray online advert for job applicants for the company read preferably of indian origin and broke uk law the equality and human rights commission in uk has said . 2 the ad was taken down and the company launched an immediate internal investigation . industry accolades edit in 2009 thbs was identified as a leader in soa integration by forrester research . 3 the company was also recognised as a gartner cool vendor for application services in 2010 . 4 thbs helped a telecom major in the uk drive its soa initiative . 5 the implementation was taken up by gartner as a case study . 6 thbs figured in the top 20 of the top 100 technology companies founded by indians in the us as per a recent survery . 7 in 2013 the solution accelerators intellectual property of thbs got special mentions by gartner in their top 10 it service management next practices 8 and open source software adoption becoming mainstream in india 9 reports . in 2011 the cloud computing world forum short listed torry harris as one among the top 3 for the cloud computing world series awards . the selection was made under the best enterprise solution category in recognition of the company s flagship cloud tool cloud catalyst . 10 in 2012 the center for excellence wing of thbs released a free to use mobile enterprise application specifically to manage ec2 instances on the amazon cloud . the application known as eazy2 and was released free of cost to the cloud computing community on the android and ios stores . eazy 2 is unique in that it provides cost estimates along with updates on machine use . 11 references edit torry harris global operations . job advert for indian in bristol office was illegal . bbc news . march 18 2010 . retrieved april 9 2011 . tim sheedy may 8 2009 . the forrester wave emea soa systems integrators q2 2009 . forrester research . retrieved april 9 2011 . cool vendors 2010 . gartner . retrieved april 9 2011 . ian grant march 4 2010 . 02 regains it control with soa . computerweekly.com . retrieved april 9 2011 . david norton march 22 2010 . case study o2 uses offshore software factory to drive soa initiative . gartner ras core research . retrieved april 9 2011 . si100 2010 . silicon india . march 4 2010 . retrieved april 9 2011 . tapati bandopadhyay june 12 2013 . top 10 it service management next practice . gartner research . laurie f. wurster june 9 2013 . open source software adoption becoming mainstream in india . gartner research . cloud computing world series awards . cloud computing world forum . june 13 2011 . torry harris launches mobile app to track amazon cloud usage . the hindu business line . august 14 2012 . external links edit thbs home page information week siliconindia retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title torry harris business solutions & oldid 702905938 categories cloud computing providersagile software developmentinternational information technology consulting firmscompanies based in new jerseyinformation technology companies of bangalorehidden categories articles needing additional references from october 2013all articles needing additional referencesarticles needing additional references from may 2014articles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout 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