Infosys eyes licencing model for ‘Influx’

Kavitha Vivek in Bangalore

SOFTWARE major Infosys Technologies is evaluating a licencing model for its ‘Influx’ methodology—a framework for technology driven business transformation—completely developed internally for use by its team at SET Labs (software engineering and technology labs).

The SET Labs serve as the company’s software engineering and technology research arm.

This process methodology developed is said to have positively impacted on the company’s rate realisation and project repeatability, though not in direct terms.

Though the company as a strategy has stayed away from getting into the saleable/licensing IP (intellectual property) game, according to the company’s CFO TV Mohandas Pai, the strategy was to build IP in the area of methodologies, processes, etc., which could assist the company on customer projects.

Speaking to The Financial Express, associate vice-president and head SET Labs Subrahmanyam Goparaju said the thrust was to develop frameworks and methods which would focus on smoothening out the critical points during a project lifecycle, understanding the customer requirements and ensuring project uptime.

SET Labs is the technology incubating lab at Infosys, which is working closely with Microsoft in the .NET technology area.