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Infosys BPO Rated Positive In The MarketScope For North American Life Insurance Policy Administration Vendors

Bangalore, August 07, 2012

- Infosys BPO Ltd., today announced that its VPAS® Life platform was evaluated by Gartner Inc., and has been rated ‘Positive' in the MarketScope for North American Life Insurance Policy Administration Vendors report1. Infosys BPO was rated with 14 other providers of life insurance policy administration systems.

“In our opinion, this report is yet another proof of the powerful combination of McCamish Systems and Infosys BPO, as well as our ongoing commitment to the market, significant continuing investments, as well as robust market success during the evaluation period,” said Gordon Beckham, President and CEO of McCamish Systems. “Infosys has enabled us to both increase investment and accelerate development of a platform that was already quite formidable before the acquisition. We are leveraging our combined strengths to deliver higher value to our clients and offer best-in-class solutions to the market. We also believe our growth in the insurance and financial services space, coupled with testimonials such as this, reiterates our commitment towards being a strong player with a unique value proposition and a premier provider of end-to-end, enterprise-wide solutions in this space."

Gartner’s MarketScope provides a comparative evaluation of life insurance and annuity systems based on four major criteria: market understanding, offering/product strategy, product and services, and overall viability.

VPAS® Life is a proven, highly scalable policy administration platform offered in SaaS, BPO, BPO Hybrid, and License modes. Over 20 of the leading insurers in the US use VPAS® Life as a solution, and with client implementations in progress in APAC and Canada, VPAS® Life’s global reach continues to expand. Once these implementations are complete, over 40 million policies worldwide will be administered by VPAS® Life.

1Gartner, Inc. ‘MarketScope for North American Life Insurance Policy Administration Vendors by Steven Leigh, 21 June 2012

 

About Gartner’s MarketScope

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About McCamish Systems and Infosys BPO

McCamish Systems, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is the Life Insurance and Retirement Services subsidiary of Infosys BPO Ltd. (www.infosysbpo.com Opens in a new window), the Business Process Outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys Limited, which was set up in April 2002. Infosys BPO focuses on integrated end-to-end outsourcing and delivers transformational benefits to its clients through reduced costs, ongoing productivity improvements, and process reengineering. Infosys BPO operates in India, the Czech Republic, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, USA, China, the Philippines and Australia, and as on June 30, 2012, employed 23,288 people. It closed FY 2011-12 with revenues of US$ 494.5 million.

 

About Infosys Ltd.

Many of the world’s most successful organizations rely on the 151,000 people of Infosys to deliver measurable business value. Infosys provides business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to help clients in over 30 countries build tomorrow’s enterprise.

For more information about Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY), visit www.infosys.com

 

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