Soham Das

Infosys, Innovation and the Changing Face of IT

Hi All,
Nice to have you all here..

@Thomas, I don't know if you gave the links a read, but on Jump Up! [the blog to which I have linked] in fact at the end signs off with this thought that, there is a huge cusp between getting patents granted and implementing them in a business, especially one like this. So the point was always acknowledged. Yet the takeaway essentially is, Infy at the end of the day is showing some real initiatives to stay at the top of the next wave of outsourcing.

And what remains,yes, Finacle is indeed a milestone in their business and received a lot of rave reviews from Gartner as well.And I do see, Finacle being a clincher, but unfortunately it is just one single product in its line.
But understand this, that in the coming years, Infosys will really not be earning its bread and butter from maintaining and developing databases and servers. It will be moving in areas and domains which is not even its core strength, thus perhaps even changing its entire core competency in the process, moving higher up in the chain. And as again said, Infosys is just now happy with maintaining world's servers, it wants to actively develop and have stake in them, which again is a good news.

@Quixote, Most of the points I have covered with a reply to Thomas. Yet, some more clarification is needed. Some of the areas are indeed outside Infosys' tradional business domain, like grid computing, pervasive computing etc. But in the coming years [read half a decade or so], the way the world carries out its projects will change too. So in effect, what is a weak point today can be made a strong point tomorrow by investment and focus, which Infy seems to be doing fine. And secondly Infy has to move up the value chain before the third wave comes in, so its imperative to explore newer areas rather than beat around the same old bush.
Incidentally Infy's research initiative reminds me of GE and Honda in its own humble ways. [I know I know,presumptuous to even compare them]. But think of it, Honda's robots and cars have very less to do with each other, yet Honda is pursuing those frontiers aggressively.
GE is not exactly known as a semi research company, but in Niskayuna it has a dedicated site to research and develop cutting edge solid state devices.
Hope you get the point.