Generative AI and the accelerated move to the cloud, post-Covid, is ushering in a shift towards significantly greater adoption of software tools
Anant R Adya, EVP and Head of Cloud, Infosys
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Anant R Adya, executive vice president and head, Cloud, Infrastructure and Security Services (CIS) for Americas and APAC at Infosys, talks to Forbes India about the evolution of the IT services company's cloud suite, Cobalt, extracting business outcomes, and how the combination of cloud computing, edge, Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, data and artificial intelligence (AI) will influence the future of tech services. Edited excerpts:
Q. How has your cloud services suite evolved, since you started it four years ago?
Cobalt today is a centre of excellence, with 300 to 400 specialists. Over the last four years, the Cobalt story has evolved from ‘save and optimise’ to ‘grow and disrupt’. Therefore, when we started we were mostly selling to the CIOs, the CTOs, the head of infra, the head of app, and so on. Now, clients are saying cloud for me is not about cost takeout, because cloud is not the cheapest technology in the market. Therefore, the strategy is to move more towards grow and disrupt, where we also cater to other stakeholders in the enterprise such as the COO, the CFO, CMO, chief sales officer, and the CHRO.
One, how can we build better products and solutions for either enterprise customers or their customers. Two, how can we help them grow into other markets where they're not present. And three, how can we help them improve customer experience.