It is a question that shareholders asked repeatedly at the Infosys annual general meeting over the weekend. It is a question that is likely to haunt India’s second-largest software exporter this week, as it prepares to meet officials from India’s Finance Ministry on June 22.
“Startups can take up parts of the solution, but they do not have the scale, insights into government functioning, capability to build such a massive and complex system end-to-end. They can definitely partner with larger service providers,” said Everest Group Vice President Yugal Joshi.