Infosys and Daimler AG have entered into a multi-year agreement covering management of infrastructure services and data centres, providing e-collaboration and middleware services as well as overseeing database operations. The agreement was signed in the second quarter of Infosys’ financial year 2014. However, Infosys has completed successful transition to take over operations of the European data centres of the automobile manufacturer in the first quarter (April-June) of Infosys financial year 2015.
In a company statement, Ruchir Budhwar, Associate Vice-President and Head of Automotive in Europe, Infosys, said: “Radically changing markets and customer demands are making manufacturers re-look at their technology backbones to seek solutions that enable rapid response at manageable costs and without disruption.
“Such solutions allow companies to react quickly, at low cost and without downtime. Infosys will manage the day-to-day data centre operations driven by a shared vision to innovate and transform these facilities. This engagement reflects our proven expertise in managing large infrastructure programmes, reinforces our strategic focus on the automotive sector and significantly expands our growing presence in the German market.”
The multi-year agreement cementing Infosys’ 12-year relationship with Daimler is a new contract around optimisation of data centre operations using secure cloud technologies and not an extension of its existing services to the company. Infosys refused to divulge the dollar value and time period of the agreement.
In 2007, Infosys was awarded DaimlerChrysler’s IPS Supplier of the Year 2006’ (International Procurement Services) in the category of Information Technology. Infosys began working closely with the automobile manufacturer from 2002 to implement strategic initiatives to increase efficiencies and optimise business processes company-wide.