"Infosys believes Mana can compete directly with IBM's Watson -- a claim that experts tracking the industry are still skeptical about. "The whole idea is to disrupt the traditional model of the software industry. (Mana) Requires a different level of skill," said Samson David, global head of cloud, infrastructure and security, who has now also been tasked by Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka to head the Mana team. "There are two killer activities in the software industry that take up the most amount of time -one is to find out what the problem is. "Mana is fundamentally the core platform of transformation for us -it encapsulates everything that we stand for and everything that we're betting on.

Source: Times of India June 13, 2016 05:20 UTC