Vendor Analysis
published on Apr 25, 2017
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes Infosys' offerings and capabilities in IoT services.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s IoT Services Vendor Assessment for Infosys is a comprehensive assessment of Infosys’ IoT service offerings and capabilities designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of IT services and identifying vendor suitability for IoT services
- Vendor marketing, sales and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the IoT sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of Infosys’ IoT service offerings, capabilities, and market and financial strength, including:
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components, accelerators, and “platforms”
- Revenue estimates
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis and new developments
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base including the company’s targeting strategy
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, weaknesses and outlook.
Key Findings & Highlights:
Infosys created its Engineering Services (ES) unit ~20 years ago, through the combination of its mechanical engineering and embedded systems capabilities. Its headcount at the end of December 2016 was ~11k.
ES is structured into four main lines of business, including the IoT line launched in 2016. The IoT service line (ISL) is a horizontal service line with its own P&L,CoE, pre-sales, project solutioning, and delivery. Other service lines within ES include:
- Core engineering: e.g. mechanical engineering and PLM application services
- Networking and embedded: e.g. embedded systems
- Software products and platform development engineering: e.g. software product development.
Broadly speaking, ISL has positioned its IoT portfolio at the intersection of three core capabilities: IT services, engineering services, and analytics services. ISL provides all IoT services and works with other Infosys units on adjacent services including analytics, UX, and Infosys Consulting.
Infosys has ~50 IoT clients.
As part of its push towards software, in 2015 Infosys (through its $500m Infosys innovation fund) made a $3m investment in Cambridge, MA based fitness wearable manufacturer WHOOP. WHOOP's devices are used by athletes to capture heart rate and calculate their bodies' intensity and recovery capability after a workout. WHOOP is a spin-off Harvard i-Lab.