Infosys positioned as a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Public Cloud Services 2023 Vendor Assessment
Infosys’ capabilities and forward-looking strategy positioned it in the Leaders category in this 2023 IDC MarketScape for worldwide managed public cloud services. The IDC MarketScape evaluated 18 managed SPs against more than 250 criteria, involving more than 4,500 data points and metrics as part of this 2023 IDC MarketScape for worldwide managed public cloud services analysis.
Infosys’ cloud business is centered on Cobalt 2.0, which is designed to support clients across three major pillars. The first pillar is centered on helping clients with IT efficiency, the second pillar is focused on creating business agility and the third pillar of Cobalt 2.0 is centered on business-led innovation.
Source: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Public Cloud Services 2023 Vendor Assessment, US49116023, November 2023
IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market, and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the icons.
Key strengths:
- Pillars of differentiation are centered on Infosys Marketplace: Marketplace provides clients with a digital store to find and adopt next-generation solutions across various industries and technology domains from Infosys and its partners; committing to business outcomes; a platform-driven service delivery model that embeds critical capabilities such as best practices, security, and sustainability; and developing the talent that clients require to support multicloud needs.
- Surpassed market averages across many parameters: In providing managed public cloud services for service delivery and operations, Infosys exceeded industry averages in supporting customer use of CI/CD, sustainability, and data lakes as well as with both the largest data storage engagement and largest data lake engagement as measured in terabytes on a public cloud managed for a single client. Infosys also surpassed market averages in supporting clients with replacing existing infrastructure with public cloud IaaS and migrating and modernizing applications to public cloud IaaS.
- Supporting platforms, infrastructure, and software: Infosys was above market standards with assisting client use of PaaS, SaaS, quantum computing, serverless/function as a service, and software for endpoint management and networks. Infosys’ use of innovation with managed public cloud services is reflected by its exceeding industry averages in supporting customer use of public clouds with technologies involving augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), SDI, and ML as well as the use of CoEs for technologies involving analytics, 5G, security, and SDI.
