MS, Infosys enable IT-led business transformation

BANGALORE: In continuation of the joint investment announced by Infosys Technologies Limited and Microsoft Corp. in November 2004 on an information technology (IT) transformation initiative called Catalytic IT, Infosys and Microsoft today unveiled the Catalytic IT concept center at the Infosys campus in Bangalore.

The portfolio of solutions and services under Catalytic IT enables enterprise businesses

and their employees to realize a simplified, flexible IT environment that lowers the total cost of ownership and enables rapid change and innovation.

Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, inaugurated the Catalytic IT concept center today. Also present were Ravi Venkatesan, chairman of Microsoft Corporation India Private Ltd., and Kris Gopalakrishnan, chief operating officer of Infosys Technologies.

This concept center has been established to provide customers with an informative and interactive experience wherein they can envision, architect and evaluate Catalytic IT solutions.

The Catalytic IT solution and services suite addresses four pivotal IT business issues: legacy modernization, connected business, infrastructure optimization and enterprise resource planning (ERP) consolidation. Over 30 intellectual property assets, service offerings, blueprints and award-winning solutions enable transformation.

Infosys' infrastructure optimization solutions helped Johnson Controls Inc., a global market leader in automotive systems and facility management and control, improve its operational efficiency by migrating to the Microsoft platform. The migration was effected across multiple business units spread across North America, South America, Latin America and Canada.

Talking about the solution benefits, Mark D. Schoeppel, vice president of Global IT Infrastructure at Johnson Controls, said, "Infosys' innovative network-centric migration solution has enabled us to standardize on the Microsoft Windows operating environment across regions with minimal disruption to business. This solution has improved our IT responsiveness while lowering migration and management costs."

Infosys created a Microsoft ASP.NET Web-based solution for SCI, a U.S. $1.86 billion death care services industry leader. The transformation, over two years, started with a small proof of concept to validate the Microsoft .NET architecture and solution, and culminated with a robust .NET application being used by almost 1,600 locations in North America.

Catalytic IT combines Infosys' consulting, research, intellectual property and project methods with the latest Microsoft application platform, which includes Windows Server System, the Microsoft Office system and Visual Studio development tools.