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Launched Today: Infosys Cobalt – A Set of Services, Solutions, and Platforms for Enterprises to Accelerate their Cloud Journey
BENGALURU, India, Aug. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

- Offers over 14,000 cloud assets and over 200 industry cloud solution 
blueprints 

    Infosys [https://www.infosys.com/] (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in 
next-generation digital services and consulting, today launched Infosys Cobalt 
- a set of services, solutions, and platforms that acts as a force multiplier 
for cloud-powered enterprise transformation. Infosys Cobalt helps businesses 
redesign the enterprise, from the core, and also build new cloud-first 
capabilities to create seamless experiences in public, private and hybrid 
cloud, across PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS landscapes. With Infosys Cobalt's community 
leverage, enterprises can rapidly launch solutions and create business models 
to meet changing market needs while complying with the most stringent global, 
regional and industry regulatory and security standards.


    Expand innovation with the cloud community and its 14,000 cloud assets

    Enterprises can leverage the full potential of the cloud ecosystem and 
Infosys Cobalt's thriving community of business and technology innovators to 
drive increased business value. Working grassroots up and extending seamlessly 
to partner with clients, the cloud community provides access to a catalog of 
over 14,000 assets to help businesses leverage the potential of the cloud 
ecosystem. An example is the Infosys payer B2B platform creating a disruptive 
marketplace for employers and providers to come together to manage the health 
of employees. The Infosys Cobalt cloud community, over time, will expand to 
include start-ups, partners, academia, gig workers and citizen cloud developers.

    Speed-to-market with over 200 industry cloud solution blueprints and 
Infosys Cobalt Labs

    With Infosys Cobalt, enterprises can have ready access to a growing 
portfolio of over 200 cloud-first solution blueprints. Infosys Enterprise 
Service Management Café, for example, is an AI-powered solution built over the 
ServiceNow cloud platform, that delivers ready-to-launch applications. With 
Infosys Cobalt Labs, at Infosys global digital centers, businesses can also 
co-create new solutions and accelerate speed to market. More broadly, Infosys 
Cobalt Labs works with the Infosys partner ecosystem to pre-configure 
partnerships to prototype industry solutions as well. 

Secure the globally dispersed enterprise 

    With Infosys Cobalt, regulatory and security compliance, along with 
technical and financial governance comes baked into every solution delivered. 
Enterprises count on Infosys Cobalt to securely access cloud capabilities and 
innovations from various partners with the assurance of the Infosys 
single-point accountability for secure outcomes.

   Salil Parekh, CEO, Infosys said, "Our clients are building cloud 
capabilities to gain business advantage in increasingly competitive markets. 
The future of enterprise cloud strategy will be shaped by three key factors – 
speed-to-market, innovation at scale, and security of the ecosystem – this is 
the foundational construct of Infosys Cobalt.  With Infosys Cobalt, we will set 
up a proven and optimal foundation for cloud-led transformation that will 
accelerate the next phase of growth and market leadership for businesses." 

    Infosys continues to invest in a growing set of services, platforms and 
solutions. The company's acquisitions of Fluido and Simplus – both leading 
Salesforce partners and recognized leaders in cloud consulting and 
implementation – expand its enterprise cloud capabilities. Infosys Cobalt also 
taps into a rich ecosystem of startups and over 30 leading providers of public 
and private cloud infrastructure, SaaS, PaaS, applications and enterprise 
security.

    Ravi Kumar, President, Infosys said, "Our clients operate in hybrid and 
multi-cloud environments. They want to modernize and innovate at scale. They 
are looking to leverage this heterogeneous landscape, make the most of SaaS and 
PaaS capabilities, and power on-demand business solutions. They need a strong 
pool of talent with specialist skillsets to solve these challenges. Infosys 
Cobalt, together with its rich ecosystem of partners and vibrant cloud 
community, is securely amplifying enterprise cloud ecosystems, enabling 
businesses to find faster, more innovative ways to respond to changing markets 
and drive business resilience." 

For more details on Infosys Cobalt, visit us at infy.com/infosyscobalt 
[https://www.infosys.com/services/cloud-cobalt.html]. For a deep dive by 
experts on the evolution of cloud and Infosys Cobalt, watch these videos on 
InfyTV: 
https://www.infosys.com/newsroom/infytv/enterprise-evolution-guide/infosys-cobalt.html 


   "We are on a continuous journey to improve responsiveness to our customers. 
Migrating to a best-in-class cloud data warehouse built using Snowflake and 
Azure has transformed the way we unlock data capabilities to accelerate 
customer relevance. Infosys is partnering with us to deliver the cloud data and 
analytics blueprint by seamlessly bringing together their partner ecosystem, 
providing technical expertise and solution assets to execute on our strategy. 
This is unleashing significant value for us through actionable insights 
delivered securely," said Eric Nelson, Kraft Heinz, CIO North America.
 
    Priya Almelkar, Head of Digital Leadership at GLOBALFOUNDRIES said, "As a 
part of GLOBALFOUNDRIES' digital transformation, we've partnered with Infosys 
to help us establish a hybrid cloud foundation that will enable application and 
data migration to the cloud. We look forward to working with Infosys to 
differentiate our business solutions and deliver value to our clients 
worldwide."

    "The current times have emphasized, like never before, the need for digital 
acceleration using technologies like cloud," said Lance Y. Gokongwei, President 
and CEO, JG Summit Holdings, Inc. "As one of the largest and most diversified 
Filipino conglomerates, our vision is to be the leading digital business in 
Philippines. We are leveraging Infosys Cobalt to set up a secure and scalable 
hybrid cloud environment and transform our business using SAP S/4HANA. We are 
also building a modern digital workplace for our workforce to be able to 
collaborate meaningfully and deliver their productive best. This will 
accelerate our responsiveness to evolving business needs and offer better 
services to our end customers."   

    "Cloud provides a platform for businesses to move at speed," said Peter 
Bendor-Samuel, Founder & CEO, Everest Group. "We are seeing rapid adoption of 
hybrid and multi-cloud environments. However, this transformation journey can 
be demanding as enterprises are flooded with a bewildering set of new options 
and associated complexities. In many cases this new operating model is proving 
difficult to master and is slow to yield the competitive advantages it 
promises. Infosys Cobalt is an effective antidote to these complexities and 
challenges and allows clients to focus on capturing the business results at 
speed that the move to cloud promised."

    "The cloud is the backbone of today's enterprise technology," said Todd 
Lavieri, Vice Chairman of ISG and President, ISG Americas and Asia Pacific. 
"Among our clients, we are seeing accelerating cloud adoption, using a hybrid, 
multi-cloud approach across public and private clouds, to design, launch, and 
scale new business models. Solutions, such as Infosys Cobalt, help 
organizations rapidly develop the business solutions they need today while also 
leveraging a vibrant cloud community to continue to innovate for the future. 
Such capabilities are a critical part of growing business resilience through 
digital transformation."

    About Infosys Ltd.

    Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and 
consulting. We enable clients in 46 countries to navigate their digital 
transformation. With nearly four decades of experience in managing the systems 
and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their 
digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core 
that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business 
with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and 
customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous 
improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and 
ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise 
navigate your next.

    Safe Harbor

    Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects, 
financial expectations and plans for navigating the COVID-19 impact on our 
employees, clients and stakeholders are forward-looking statements intended to 
qualify for the 'safe harbor' under the Private Securities Litigation Reform 
Act of 1995, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause 
actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking 
statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, 
but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding COVID-19 and the 
effects of government and other measures seeking to contain its spread, risks 
related to an economic downturn or recession in India, the United States and 
other countries around the world, changes in political, business, and economic 
conditions, fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, 
our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including 
those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our 
ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost 
overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, 
restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to 
manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key 
focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our 
ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, 
liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in 
which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of 
governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, 
legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, 
unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions 
affecting our industry and the outcome of pending litigation and government 
investigation. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results 
are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange 
Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year 
ended March 31, 2020. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Infosys may, 
from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, 
including statements contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and 
Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. The Company does not 
undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time 
to time by or on behalf of the Company unless it is required by law.

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