Infosys rallies on multi-year deal with Daimler AG; top Sensex gainer

NEW DELHI: Infosys surged as much 2.6 per cent in trade on Wednesday and was top gainer on Sensex, after the IT services major said it has secured a multi-year deal from automaker maker Daimler AG for the management of infrastructure services and data centres.

Financial details of the deal were not revealed. Infosys said in a statement that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Daimler AG "covering management of infrastructure services and data centres, providing e-collaboration and middleware services as well as overseeing database operations".

The agreement was signed in the second quarter of Infosys' financial year 2013-14 and the transition was completed and steady state operations started in first quarter of 2014-15, it added.

Under the agreement, the firm has completed successful transition to take over operation of European data centres of the automobile maker, it said.