Bharat Goenka is an Indian businessman and the co-founder and managing director of

Tally Solutions Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian multinational technology company, that provides enterprise resource planning software. It is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. The company reports that its software is used by more than 7 million cus ...

. In 2020, he received the

Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...

from the

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for his contribution in the field of trade and industry.

Life

Goenka is the son of

Shyam Sunder Goenka Shyam Sunder Goenka was an Indian entrepreneur, who founded Bangalore-based Tally Solutions, one of India’s first software product companies. Early life and background He was born on 15 October 1932 in Kolkata in a Marwari family to parents ...

, and is an alumnus of the

Bishop Cotton Boys' School Bishop Cotton Boys' School is an all-boys school for boarders and day scholars in Bangalore, India, founded in the memory of Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, Bishop of Calcutta. The school has been described as "The Eton of the East". Th ...

. A graduate in mathematics, Goenka co-founded Tally Solutions with his father in 1986 after searching for a software to manage their accounting books. He created an MS-DOS based accounting application named Peutronics Financial Accountant, formally changed to Tally Solutions in 1999. In 2011,

NASSCOM The National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) is an Indian non-governmental trade association and advocacy group, focused mainly on the technology industry of India. Established in 1988, NASSCOM is a non-profit organis ...

conferred their ''Lifetime Achievement Award'' to Goenka and the title of "the father of the Indian software product industry". He was given the ''CSI Honorary Fellowship Award'' by the

Computer Society of India Computer Society of India is a body of computer professionals in India. It was started on 6 March 1965 by a few computer professionals and has now grown to be the national body representing computer professionals. It has 72 chapters across India ...

(CSI) in 2014. In 2020, he received the

honour from the

for his contribution in the field of trade and industry. Goenka delivered the 16th Lecture organised by the General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Trust.

References

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