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Shamik Paul

Bangalore, Aug. 26 If applied research arm SETLabs has in recent years given its parent Infosys the differentiating edge in services, it is now geared to drive the non-linear revenue of the country’s second largest IT vendor.

Infosys Technologies Ltd is expecting about 15 per cent of total revenue from non-linear initiatives, and SETLabs is working on the technology aspect to achieve this target, said Dr Rajiv Narvekar, Research Evangelist, R&D Strategy and Operations.

The Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs) is working on creating new Intellectual Property (IP) that will enable the company to provide better solutions, Dr Narvekar said.

These IPs are owned by Infosys, and clients have to pay to use them, he added.

The new IPs are created keeping in mind the needs of the clients. Dr Narvekar said

SETLabs is working closely with Infosys’s clients and their ecosystem to understand their needs, and create solutions that would transform their businesses.

This would establish Infosys as a thought leader and generate downstream revenue opportunity, he added.

Around 2004, SETLabs had helped to develop integrated business solutions, which enabled Infosys to win large deals, the company said.

SETLabs has the Innovation and Co-creation Platform, which engages with clients to understand what their challenges are, said Dr Narvekar.

It also conducts the Innovation Workshop with clients, where it identifies promising ideas, builds a proof-of-concept around it and then takes it to the client, he added.

For the Innovation Workshops, SETLabs selects top clients from the various industry verticals. Each business unit helps to identify the clients. It also takes inputs from the account teams on client requirements. Dr Narvekar said the workshops are a big boost for research ideas. Client visits also throws up new ideas, he added.

Apart from licensing its IP to customers, SETLabs is also working on joint products. It is looking at new clients as well, said Dr Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Principal Researcher, Head, SOA Centre of Excellence.

It is trying to see if it can offer its products as a part of other products.

“We are taking multiple steps to non-linear growth,” he said. SETLabs is working with universities, other product vendors and OEMs, he added.

Dr Narvekar said the unit is working with BT to provide real time business intelligence. Gradient, a SETLabs product that provides real time business analytics, has been added to a BT product. The solution will be jointly marketed and the royalty will be shared, he added.

SETLabs has 6 products including mConnect, a mobile middleware; Gradient; Mantra, a maintenance and transition platform; HIMI, a holistic infrastructure management solution; Influx, a tool that comes with methodologies to help requirement capture and Radian.

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