Infosys Expands Partnership with Microsoft for Cloud and Analytics Offerings

TechnoparkToday.com>>: Infosys announced expansion of their decade-long partnership with Microsoft Corp. to help enterprises transform their business and tap opportunities in a cloud-first, mobile-first world. As one of Microsoft’s leading systems integration partners globally, Infosys has thousands of Microsoft Certified Professionals. It will now expand its capabilities for analytics and other service offerings on Microsoft technologies. Infosys will also establish a global center of excellence for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning capable of training more than 1,000 engineers by the end of fiscal year 2015.

As one of Microsoft’s first partners, Infosys has built deep expertise in Microsoft Azure. Infosys will continue to use its expertise to help enterprises more securely expedite their movement to Azure and hybrid cloud environments while optimizing their cloud investments.

Infosys will build a broad range of predictive analytics offerings using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning to help enterprises adopt and use advanced analytic tools and algorithms. This will help enterprises harness the power of Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Microsoft Power BI to realize more value from their data. They can also rapidly deploy systems in production and get to market faster, improve forecasting, predict and prevent problems, and optimize their business. Infosys will accelerate its efforts to design frameworks, tools and accelerators to improve end user productivity for the digital workforce on Microsoft cloud platforms. These platforms, including Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, complement Azure solutions.

“Our mobile-first, cloud-first world provides a unique opportunity to help customers accelerate and transform their business. Working together, Infosys and Microsoft will bring the benefits of enterprise-grade cloud computing to customers with Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online.” Said Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Microsoft.

“Software is changing the world and Microsoft is a longstanding partner in this revolution. Together we have transformed businesses and redefined the way enterprises use computing technologies. Now, our customers are asking us to help them tap the power of new opportunities in areas such as analytics and mobility as they set the course for their growth.  Expanding our partnership at this crucial time will allow us to take the best of Microsoft technologies to help enterprises craft their strategies for a new era.” Said Ravi Kumar, Executive Vice President and Global Head, Alliances, Infosys.

Infosys is a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions. We enable clients, in more than 30 countries, to stay a step ahead of emerging business trends and outperform the competition. We help them transform and thrive in a changing world by co-creating breakthrough solutions that combine strategic insights and execution excellence.