Infosys Announces Research Tie-up with IIIT-H

Bangalore, June 26 (UNI) Infosys Technologies and the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) have inked an agreement to undertake joint research.

Under this agreement, Infosys would sponsor research in unstructured data analytics, inference and diagnostics tools and the development of next-generation business intelligence tools at IIIT-H.

The agreement was signed by Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, IIIT Hyderabad and Mr Subu Goparaju, VP and Head, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies, recently, an Infosys release here said today.

''Academia and industry can work together to take research from laboratory to industry. Such collaborations have the seeds to produce innovative new products, which the industry can develop further and commercialise,'' Mr Sangal said.

The objective of this collaboration was to improve the functionality provided in Health Information Management Infrastructure (HIMI) solutions.

This agreement was part of a larger Infosys program to engage with leading Indian and international universities to facilitate research in a variety of areas including software engineering, information management, knowledge engineering, game theory and IP lifecycle management.

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