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Infosys has tasked Abdul Razack head of platforms at Infosys to help bring its automation technology to its service lines
PremiumBengaluru: Infosys Ltd has tasked a former SAP AG executive with automating delivery functions across its seven services lines, even as smaller rival Wipro Ltd expects automation to reduce people deployment in its delivery side by up to 35% in three years.
India’s second-largest software exporter, which completed its $200 million acquisition of Panaya Inc. earlier this month, has tasked Abdul Razack, head of platforms at Infosys, to help bring its automation technology to its service lines, including software development, application maintenance and product engineering.
The decision to put Razack in charge is significant given the crucial role he played in developing SAP Hana, the blockbuster data analytics platform, and SAP Ganges, another technology platform, at German software maker SAP, the former employer of Infosys chief executive officer (CEO) Vishal Sikka. Razack joined Infosys from SAP in October 2014.
“On delivery, we see hyper-automation reduce cost of operations significantly. In three years, people deployment will come down by 35% for the same scope of work," Wipro CEO T.K. Kurien told analysts last week in New York.
Local software exporters have built their business over the last two decades by helping customers across industries and locations in rolling out business software applications such as Oracle, SAP and JD Edwards.
“(This is) a cultural shift for Infosys—from the historical approach to software development in isolation to highly automated environments," Thomas Reuner, principal analyst at London-based IT research firm Ovum, wrote in a note last month.
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