Infosys is collaborating with Microsoft to offer the former’s Finacle suite of solutions on Microsoft Azure platform. This will help banks to utlize Finacle solutions along with the capabilites of Azure and reduce costs and function with agility. Through this offering, banks of all sizes across the globe can leverage Finacle on the cloud. It will help Finacle’s clients reduce infrastructure and technology management costs and gain flexibility to scale operations rapidly. Besides, banks can design their journey to the cloud with a variety of flexible deployment options. They can choose to use Azure as a production environment or for development and testing purposes. They can also leverage hybrid models to process peak loads by utilizing ‘cloud bursting’ techniques, while continuing to run routine operations on an in-house environment. Besides, banks can also leverage new innovations from Finacle on an ongoing basis, and minimize the costs and efforts of implementation