SWOT Analysis of Infosys Technologies

This assignment presents a detailed SWOT analysis of Infosys Technologies, a leading global IT company. It examines the company's internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as external opportunities and threats. The analysis highlights Infosys' key areas of competitive advantage, potential challenges, and strategic recommendations for growth in the long-term.

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SWOT analysis for Infosys Technologies
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Task A:
SWOT Analysis
Organization: Infosys Technologies
Date: 22/09/2017
Description of current/new ICT service:
Infosys has been offering Information technology services in the design and the delivery of the IT
services to the business solution to the clients especially in the North America, Asian pacific region as
well as in Europe.
The company is offering customized strategy application to their clients business. The present task which
Infosys continues to be associated with differs both in size as well as duration. They possess great deal of
services from mainframe, mobile technologies as well as client-server. The major platform of
technologies which the company uses are Linux and .Net (SWOT Analysis Infosys. 2013). Moreover,
they also offer maintenance as well as the production support to their clients who utilizes their
applications and the software.
They uses proactive approach when it comes to provision of the wide software maintenance, through
focusing on the long term functionality as well as the preventive maintenance in order to avoid future
issues of the incomplete or perhaps short-term solutions( Technologies Limited Fundamental Company,
2014).
Infosys has a significant presence when it comes to the provision of the user based IT services as well as
applications to their clients who they represent globally. The company is using new and improved
technological approach to be able to meet on the demands of the clients.
STRENGTHS
 Infosys they have built
positive image in
regards to their offshore
WEAKNESSES
 The company has been having a major decline growth and
margins. This has been observed in 2013 when they declined in
growth from 37% to 41%.
 The company is lacks strong leadership. The CEO D. Shibulal

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clients through offering
quality services and
innovations.
 The portfolio for the
services for the
organization is huge as
they have international
companies form gas,
retail and even oil.
 Their main concern has
been focused on
innovation as they have
invested more than one
hundred million dollars
to support innovative
ideas such from cloud,
big data and mobility.
 The organization has
good presence as they
have 4 billion dollars in
hands and they have no
debts. Additionally, they
intend to make
additionally acquisitions
in the offshore countries
such as Asia pacific and
even Europe.
 The strength of the
workers in the
organization is huge as it
has a total of more than
one million workers,
which have a strong
presence in India and
offshore delivery
centers.
was unable to meet the demands of the inventors.
 Infosys has been facing the crisis of pricing pressure and they
are looking in lowering on the prices to the services they
provide.
 They have intangible assets of two billion dollars in their
balance sheet which seems to be not a good thing.
 The business has been affected greatly by the volatility of the
income especially the Euro and Pound (SWOT Analysis
Infosys.2013)
OPPORTUNITIES
 The company can utilize
on the emerging
technology such as cloud
and the big data.
 They have an important
opportunity when it
comes to the product
THREATS
 The fall in the global economy has impacted the business of the
company to a great deal.
 The company has decreased on their pricing because of the stiff
competition from their rivals.
 There has been a major concern when it comes to vendor
consolidation.

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segment as their totals in
their book is more than
six hundred million
dollars in the sector.
 They want to undertake
strategic acquisitions for
the development of the
organization.
Summary and Recommendations:
SWOT results shows that Infosys is the 3rd Largest IT development company in India which has a global
presence when it comes to the international market and having some of the big international customers.
The results also shows that if the organization follows the requirements stipulated by the clients, they
would be able to increase on their presence as the international information technology providers of
services. The result also shows that they have encountered major fall in the shares after the breakdown in
the global economy in the year 2010. Moreover, the company has invested in new technologies to be able
to increase on their IT services.
Short Term (Now)
For the organization to ensure that their application are working properly they need to ensure that the
clients satisfaction, they could achieve this through extensive software life cycle as well as new
technologies.
Mid Term (next 12 months)
To achieve this they could hire fresher workers for the organization to be able to increase on the working
potential aspects of the company. In India they produce more than five million engineers in a single year
and organization such as Infosys could get easily good strengths of workers.
Long Term (next 3 to 5 years)

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The organization can utilize new and innovative technologies such as the cloud computing which could
increase on the potential to provide information technology services. They could achieve this by offering
a user interface to be able to interact with the communication between the customer and the workers and
establish on a central system which is more connected to the other servers of the company globally. In
the event they utilize the cloud computing, they do not need to establish an office at the site of the client
and they would be able to demonstrate on their software at an instant point.

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References
Infosys Talk. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2017, from www.infosysblogs.com/:
http://www.infosysblogs.com/infytalk/
Infosys Technologies Limited Fundamental Company. (2014). Retrieved September 22, 2017,
from marketpublishers.com:
http://pdf.marketpublishers.com/bac_swot/infosys_technologies_limited_swot_analysis_
bac.pdf
SWOT Analysis Infosys. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2017, from marketingteacher.com:
http://www.marketingteacher.com/infosys-swot/