Infosys Consulting is a

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practice within the larger

Infosys Infosys Limited is an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational information technology company that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. The company was founded in Pune and is headquartered in Ba ...

organization which works in strategy, IT transformation,

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and

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. Infosys Consulting operates globally and currently has offices in 18 countries across the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe. The firm was officially launched in 2004 as a fully owned subsidiary of

chaired by N. R. Narayana Murthy, one of the co-founders of Infosys. For quarter-end March, 2016 Infosys Consulting and Package Implementation were reported as 33.2% of the whole of Infosys' revenue, contributing to the reported earnings of 23 cents a share on revenue of $2.4 billion that December for

History

At its initial launch in 2004, Infosys Consulting focused on recruitment in the United States to launch programs in a

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. In 2012, Infosys acquired Lodestone Management Consultants, based out of Zurich,

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for $350m USD. Lodestone increased the Infosys Consulting client base by nearly 200 companies across different industry segments, and at the time of acquisition, Infosys’ consulting and systems-integration business contributed to 31% of total revenue. The acquisition brought on 850 new employees, with 750 being front-line consulting delivery professionals. In 2015, Infosys Ltd decided to integrate Lodestone, at the time a subsidiary of Infosys, and the Management Consulting Services unit into the singular Infosys Consulting unit that resides within Infosys Limited. In 2015, Infosys acquire
Noah Consulting LLC
for $70m USD. Noah Consulting is based out of

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and primarily serves customers in the oil and gas industry, providing information and technology services. As of September 2017, it was unclear whether the brand would be a subsidiary or merged into the larger Infosys Consulting. After three-years as interim CEO of

, Dr.

Vishal Sikka Vishal Sikka (born May, 1967) is the Founder and CEO of Vianai, former CTO of SAP AG, and former CEO of Infosys. He currently also serves on Oracle's board of directors, the supervisory board of the BMW Group and as an advisor to the Stanford ...

resigned in August 2017. In a personal note to board colleagues, he cited a 'drumbeat of distractions' and "false, baseless, malicious and increasingly personal attacks" as his reason for leaving Infosys. Anonymous employees of the company were quoted in the press as saying that this was due to a long-running feud with Infosys' founders over the new direction Sikka was reportedly taking Infosys. The current director and CEO is

Salil Parekh Salil Parekh is the current chief executive officer and managing director of Infosys. Parekh took over from interim CEO U B Pravin Rao on 2 January 2018. Early life and education He is a graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bom ...

, former executive at

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business consultancy. In 2020, Infosys made an alliance with Avaloq to improve wealth management capability across digital channels.

References

External links

www.infosysconsultinginsights.com

www.infosys.com/consulting
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