IPsoft, an independent provider of autonomic IT services has partnered with global consulting and technology leader Infosys. IPsoft’s autonomics platform – IPcenter, together with managed services from Infosys, will help reduce costs of IT operations and generate greater value for clients.
IPcenter delivers self-learning and self-healing systems to automate recurring manual IT tasks, and substantially reduce human intervention. IPsoft’s autonomics services, along with standardized processes and metrics from Infosys, maximizes the efficiency of IT operations. The partnership will bring to market a new strategy to accelerate business outcome-based sourcing and free-up critical resources otherwise engaged in managing routine tasks. This will help CIOs transform their departments to meet not just technology enablement mandates but business enablement goals.
“This is a true partnership of strengths. It brings together the consulting expertise, enterprise IT services, and enduring customer relationships of Infosys with the autonomics capabilities of IPsoft. This formidable combination will help clients free-up resources for higher priority innovation efforts. Simply put, autonomics-driven services can bring to IT support and maintenance the kind of productivity gains that robotics brought to the manufacturing industry,” Chetan Dube, CEO, IPsoft.
IPsoft and Infosys will collaborate to set up an Autonomics Center of Excellence and an Autonomics Lab at the Infosys Global Education Center in Mysore. The Autonomics Center of Excellence will focus on developing technical competencies and training of Infosys employees in this discipline. The Autonomics Lab will develop proofs of concept and design autonomics solutions for clients
Chandrashekar Kakal, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Business IT Services (BITS), Infosys, said, “Infosys has always been at the forefront of innovation in the IT services industry -from pioneering the Global Delivery Model to accelerating the adoption of managed services. We are now at the cusp of another first – autonomics-driven service delivery. We believe autonomics can help enterprises balance shrinking IT budgets and expanding demand for business enablement. We are confident that our partnership with IPsoft will help us deliver greater returns on our clients’ IT investments.”
Infosys plans to train over 5,000 employees on IPcenter in the coming months