Infosys Ltd. launched its Cobalt suite of reference architectures in the summer of 2020, offering 14,000 cloud assets and 200 industry blueprints. Now, the global system integrator has embarked on Cobalt 2.0, with a mission to transform industries.

“We wanted to focus on industry clouds,” said Anant Adya (pictured, right), executive vice president for Infosys Cobalt. “If we go to banking, they would say they want a better security posture; if we go to a retailer, they want to have smart stores; if we go to a manufacturing customer, they want a smart factory. Cloud, data, edge, [internet of things], 5G and artificial intelligence will come together to deliver business outcomes. That’s where we are heading with Cobalt 2.0.”

Adya spoke with theCUBE hosts Lisa Martin and Savannah Peterson at AWS re:Invent, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He was joined by David Wilson (pictured, left), senior vice president and head for partner ecosystem at Infosys, and they discussed how the evolution of Infosys Cobalt has gained significance in delivering business results for the company’s enterprise customers. (* Disclosure below.)

Changing the GSI model

Leveraging cloud-driven technologies to deliver business outcomes is transforming the global system integrator model, according to Wilson.

“What’s happened with cloud now, it’s not about the transaction upfront, it’s about consumption of the technology and bringing services to form an outcome,” Wilson said. “It changes the model dramatically. Global system integrators are in a great position because we can pull that together to the benefit of our partners, put our secret sauce around it, and take these solutions to market.”

The delivery of outcomes has even extended to customer expectations for the end product. Infosys has found that results are increasingly tied to the delivery of service for a particular business.

“Contractual structures are now moving into business outcomes, we are getting paid by the outcomes that we are delivering,” Adya said. “With one of the insurance companies that we have, we actually get paid by the number of claims that we process.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent:

(* Disclosure: Infosys Ltd. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Infosys nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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