Dataquest: India's most influential and impactful tech publication

Dataquest DQ) was launched in 1982 when the Indian tech industry was at a nascent stage, soon becoming the most influential media publication in the IT/ITeS space, guiding the government, industry and academia.

- Sunil Rajguru

The Bible of Indian IT: DQ was much sought after by corporate leaders, government decision makers, embassies and foreign missions, thereby boosting bilateral policies too. In the past, be it government records or World Bank reports, they often sourced their data from DQ, giving it the nickname: Bible of the IT industry.

At the time, a global IT industry driven out of India seemed like a pipe dream, but stalwarts of the era dreamt big and DQ was there to observe, report, guide, and influence along the way in India’s exciting tech journey. Over the past four decades, DQ has closely chronicled, applauded and evaluated the growth of the industry from around Rs 100 crores in 1982 to it crossing US$250 billion recently.

DQ realized the need to tell everyone that we were a rising power. Slowly the world started believing it. And companies either bought from India or set up shop here.

Top 20 listings: The annual DQ Top 20 rankings of leading IT companies have been the single most important source of information that lent direction to the industry.

DQ started the Top 20 rankings of IT companies (initially the Top 10), the first of its kind in India. Eagerly awaited every year, it is a much sought-after publication for planning and review purposes. A glance through the Top 20s from the 1980s to the 2020s provides a snapshot of the IT industry’s evolution across 40+ years, with the histories, rise and fall of hundreds of companies.