Infosys wins three prestigious oracle excellence awards

SAN FRANCISCO, October 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today presented Infosys with the Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year - North America in both the Financial

Management and Human Capital Management categories. It also recognized Ricoh, an Infosys Business Partner, for an ORACLE EXCELLENCE AWARD: Eco-Enterprise Innovation. ORACLE EXCELLENCE AWARD:

Eco-Enterprise Innovation recognizes customers for reducing their environmental footprints while reducing costs using Oracle products. Working with Infosys and using Oracle's ERP and

CRM platform and underlying technology, Ricoh Europe eliminated approximately 1,400 servers as part of its transformation, shrinking its carbon footprint by 85 percent. Ricoh's carbon

dioxidereduction of 19,000 tons is equivalent to taking 106 cars off the road. "We wanted the most secure infrastructure without increasing our carbon emissions," said Ian Winham,

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Ricoh Europe. "Infosys helped us achieve these goals. Like Infosys, we firmly believe that sustainability, innovation and

profitability sit together at the core of our company." The Oracle Excellence Awards for Specialized Partner of the Year - North America encourages innovation by Oracle Partner Network

members that use the company's products and technology to create value for customers and generate new business. "Oracle and Infosys are strategic partners that help clients like

Ricoh transform their businesses," said Ravi Kumar S., Vice President and Global Head of the Oracle practice at Infosys. "These awards show just how hard we work to help our

clients build tomorrow's enterprises." Infosys also received awards in both the Financial Management and Human Capital Management categories. These awards reflect the success that

Infosys has had at adopting the Oracle PartnerNetwork's Specialized approach, a formal review process implemented by Oracle to acknowledge capabilities in key areas. "Infosys has

demonstrated an outstanding level of innovation by winning these three awards. Infosys delivers proven Oracle-based Eco-Enterprise, Financial and Human Capital Management solutions that

solve our joint customers' most critical business challenges," said Andy Bailey, senior vice president, Strategic Alliances, Oracle. "These achievements are a testament to its

dedication to excellence and to providing customer solutions that drive real business value." Infosys is a Diamond level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork. About Infosys   Infosys

partners with global enterprises to drive their innovation-led growth. That's why Forbes ranked Infosys 19th among the top 100 most innovative companies. As a leading provider of

next-generation consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions, Infosys helps clients in more than 30 countries realize their goals. Visit http://www.infosys.com and see how Infosys

(NASDAQ: INFY), with its 150,000+ people, is Building Tomorrow's Enterprise® today. Infosys Safe Harbor Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are

forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks

and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our

ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly

skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to

manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete

and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration

of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our

intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States

Securities and Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012 and on Form 6-K for the quarters ended September 30, 2011,

December 31, 2011 and June 30, 2012.These filings are available at http://www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including

statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking

statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company. About Oracle PartnerNetwork Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's

partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of

Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the

ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more,

visit http://www.oracle.com/partners. About the Oracle Excellence Awards Striving for success is what drives Oracle and its customers and partners to continually discover innovative uses for

Oracle technology and to deploy successful and ground-breaking solutions and best practices. The Oracle Excellence Award recognizes customers and partners that have excelled in driving

business value together with Oracle in eleven different award categories. Full details are available on our Website.  Trademarks Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its

affiliates. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: THE AMERICAS Danielle D'Angelo Infosys Ltd., United States Phone: +1-510-8595783 [email protected]   ASIA PACIFIC Sarah

Vanita Gideon Infosys Ltd., India Phone: +91-80-4156-4998 [email protected]  AUSTRALIA Cristin Balog Infosys Ltd., Australia Phone: +61-3-9860-2277 [email protected] EMEA Paul

de Lara   Infosys Ltd., United Kingdom Phone: +44(0)2075162748 [email protected] SOURCE Infosys Ltd