Infosys Launches BigDataEdge: New Platform Develops Enterprise Insights up to Eight Times Faster, Fosters Near Real-Time Decisions and Actions

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Infosys [http://www.infosys.com/pages/index.aspx ] today announced
the launch of BigDataEdge
[http://www.infosys.com/bigdataedge/pages/index.aspx ] to radically
simplify the complex task of analyzing Big Data to discover relevant
information. By empowering business users to rapidly develop insights
from vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, better
business decisions can be made in near real-time. With Infosys
BigDataEdge, enterprises can reduce the time taken to extract
information by up to 40 percent and generate insights up to eight
times faster.

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Infosys BigDataEdge includes:

- A rich visual interface with more than 50 customizable dashboards and 250
built-in algorithms. These algorithms, a set of reusable business rules both function
and industry-specific, enable business teams to self-serve the process of building
insights while minimizing the need for technical intervention
- Over 50 data source connectors, which allow easy access to structured and
unstructured data residing across enterprise and external sources. This would enable
acceleration of discovery of relevant information from existing, underutilized data
- A powerful collaboration wall and pre-built workflows that allow teams across
functions to interact on insights and collectively implement decisions
- A Logical Data Warehouse providing a virtual data management architecture,
eliminates the need for physical availability of data to build and test insights
- 'Out-of-the-box' applications for specific industry needs such as fraud
detection and prevention, predictive analytics and monitoring, and customer
micro-segmentation that deliver faster returns on investment

Announcing the new platform, Vishnu Bhat, Vice President and
Global Head - Cloud, Infosys, said, "Enterprises today cannot afford
to spend an inordinate amount of time making sense of the data deluge
that surrounds them. Infosys BigDataEdge draws upon our deep research
and development capabilities and proven expertise in Big Data and
analytics to help clients turn data into revenues faster. This unique
platform is already enabling ten global organizations to develop
actionable insights in a matter of days and act on them from day
one."

Supporting Quotes

Cetin Ozbutun, Vice President, Data Warehousing and Big Data
Technologies, Oracle(R), said: "Big Data can provide our customers
with superior agility and insight to make better business decisions.
Infosys has demonstrated the ability to deliver needed skills for
Oracle's Big Data solutions, as well as for Oracle(R)'s industry
leading data warehousing and analytics platforms. The Infosys
BigDataEdge platform leverages Oracle(R) Big Data Appliance and
Oracle(R) Exadata Database Machine to help our clients acquire,
organize, analyze, and take action on these insights and produce a
faster return on their Big Data investments."

Tim Stevens, Vice President, Corporate and Business Development at
Cloudera, said, "In this era of Big Data, organizations are demanding
that actionable insights be both timely and cost-effective if they
are to provide real competitive advantage. The Infosys BigDataEdge
solution fully utilizes Cloudera's industry leading technologies to
enable enterprises to process their structured and unstructured data
assets and gain real-time actionable insights with ease."

Mark Beyer, Research Vice President, Gartner, said, "The Logical
Data Warehouse is a new data management architecture for analytics
which combines the strengths of traditional repository warehouses
with alternative data management and access strategy.[1] Logical Data
Warehouse is the answer to address the Big Data needs and enterprises
should choose Big Data platforms that embrace this approach.[2]"

'Ray' Wang, Principal Analyst and CEO, Constellation Research,
Inc., added, "As organizations shift from real-time to right time,
organizations seek relevant insight in order to make business
decisions. Big Data must be relevant and contextual in order to
deliver business value. Constellation sees the rise of Big Data hubs
as one of many key solutions in reducing the complexity and improving
context."

1. Gartner, Hype Cycle for Information Infrastructure, 2012 , Mark
A. Beyer, Roxane Edjlali, 21 June 2012

2. Gartner, Understanding the Logical Data Warehouse: The Emerging
Practice, Mike Blechar, 31 July 2012

Additional Resources

- Click to download the BigDataEdge infographic
[http://www.infosysblogs.com/bigdata/blog-index.html ]
- Click to download the BigDataEdge brochure
[http://www.infosys.com/bigdataedge/resources/Documents/realizing-business-value.pdf ]
- Click here for the Infosys BigDataEdge video
[http://www.infosys.com/bigdataedge/pages/index.aspx ]
- Read the Infosys Big Data blog
[http://www.infosysblogs.com/bigdata/blog-index.html ] here

About Infosys

Infosys partners with global enterprises to drive their
innovation-led growth. That's why Forbes ranked Infosys 19th among
the top 100 most innovative companies. As a leading provider of
next-generation consulting, technology, and outsourcing solutions,
Infosys helps clients in more than 30 countries realize their goals.
Visit http://www.infosys.com and see how Infosys , with its 150,000+
people, is Building Tomorrow's Enterprise(R) today.

Safe Harbor

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth
prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks
and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not
limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in
earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to
manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those
factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India,
our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time
and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client
concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment
concentration, our ability to manage our international operations,
reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in
telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to
successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability
for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in
which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or
expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability
and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or
acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our
intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our
industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating
results are more fully described in our United States Securities and
Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F
for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012 and on Form 6-K for the
quarters ended June 30, 2012, September 30, 2012 and December 31,
2012.These filings are available at http://www.sec.gov. Infosys may,
from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking
statements, including statements contained in the company's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to
shareholders. The company does not undertake to update any
forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or
on behalf of the company, unless required by law.

For Further information please contact:

Asia Pacific
Abhijith Karthikeya D
Infosys, India
Phone: +91-80-41563373
Abhijith_Damodar@infosys.com

EMEA
Paul De Lara
Infosys, UK
Phone: +44-2075162748
Paul_deLara@infosys.com

The Americas
Jay Barta
Infosys, US
Phone: +1-510-926-7840
Jay_Barta@Infosys.com

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