Microsoft, Infy create new alliance

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By Team Diginews4u ⋅ January 30, 2009 ⋅

Microsoft and Infosys Technologies have forged a new go-to-market alliance around improving supply chain visibility and collaboration.

The two companies have jointly launched a set of solutions, services and a centre of excellence to help manufacturers build ‘next-generation supply chains with improved performance and better visibility’ across their enterprises and trading partners.

Infosys and Microsoft will aim to jointly bring to market solutions that provide capabilities for performance management, analytics, collaboration and event-based exception management. These include specialised modules that provide data and intelligence for supply chain professionals to manage performance of after-sales service, procurement, inventory and demand management functions.

The Infosys Service Performance Workbench and Infosys Procurement Workbench modules are available immediately, with others to follow. The modules contain pre-built intellectual property and accelerators in the form of process frameworks, data models, analytical tools, performance metrics and key performance indicator scorecards tailored for specific supply chain roles.

The joint solutions also include proprietary connectors developed by Infosys and Microsoft to help facilitate the integration of these modules with existing business systems, such as enterprise resource planning applications and supply chain execution systems. In addition, the solutions are built upon core Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

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