New Delhi, Oct. 27 -- Two of India's largest information technology services firms, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd and Tech Mahindra Ltd, are turning to peer companies in their conglomerate groups to grow business pipelines.

While TCS is directly getting business from Tata Group companies including Jaguar Land Rover and Tejas Networks by handling their IT infrastructure, Tech Mahindra is relying on Mahindra Group companies for real estate, finance, and energy synergies in order to set-up back-end tech centres for clients.

TCS and Tech Mahindra are the only two of the country's Big Five IT services companies that are part of large conglomerates. (Infosys Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd, and Wipro Ltd make for the other members of the Big ...