India’s second largest IT services company Infosys has announced the launch of ‘Aikido’, three enhanced service offerings in design thinking, platforms and knowledge-based IT (KBIT). These services are aimed at helping its clients address three key aspects of their business.

• The first of the services is Ki is a large-scale, modular service to help renew enterprise landscapes.
• The second services, Do, refers to the service offering on Design Thinking and design-led initiatives that will provide Infosys the framework for finding, understanding and defining the problems that are most important to clients and their businesses.
• Ai refers to platform and platforms as a service to build intelligent solutions. This will include the Infosys-automation platform, Panaya and other offerings in the engineering services, BPO and testing space.

“Ai, Ki and Do combine into Aikido, the east Asian martial arts, and just as Aikido aims to understand the forces, and redirect these it into a fundamental strength, our Ai, Ki and Do services will help combine the knowledge and energy in an enterprise towards its strategic path and priorities,” added Mr. Sikka.

In addition, Infosys plans to offer platforms to address the Internet of Things (IoT) and Application Programming Interface (API) requirements of its clients.