Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, announced a strategic collaboration with the Handelsblatt Media Group, a leading media company for business and financial information in Germany. As an AI and Digital Innovation Partner for the Handelsblatt Media Group, Infosys will bring the best of digital technology to power innovative storytelling to inform and delight Handelsblatt’s core audience.
In the first year of this partnership, Infosys will work with Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI), an independent economic research institute under the umbrella of the Handelsblatt Media Group. Infosys will leverage Infosys Topaz, an AI-first set of services, solutions and platforms using generative AI technologies, to support the HRI in making complex HRI reports on global economic and financial topics more accessible and consumable for the public.
HRI has been consistently evolving the digital storytelling of its reports and, now leveraging its collaboration with Infosys, will enable new-age customizations like chat functionality, text translation and transformation, text-to-speech, and automatic data updates, among other key features. These innovations will help create an immersive presentation of HRI’s reports, which are smart, reliable, characterized by scientific analysis, and are a widely accessible source of economic and financial information.
Dr. Jan Kleibrink, Managing Director, Handelsblatt Research Institute, said, "We are excited to collaborate with Infosys to offer cutting-edge, AI-enabled trend reports. One of the core tasks of the Handelsblatt Research Institute is to present complex economic relationships and the results of scientific analysis to a broad readership. We achieve this with texts of the highest journalistic quality and visual storytelling based on high-quality infographics. With Infosys as our AI and digital innovation partner, we now move to the next level of digital storytelling that is powered by AI.”
Ashiss Kumar Dash, EVP & Global Head – Sustainability, Services, Utilities, Resources and Energy, Infosys, said, “We are delighted to become the AI and digital innovation partner of an organization that is known for its in-depth research reports on economy and finance. By leveraging our Generative AI capabilities, through Infosys Topaz, Handelsblatt Media group will redefine the storytelling experience for complex reports in journalism and making them more accessible to the public. The media industry is the digital fabric of our society, and Infosys aims to constantly deliver value and opportunity for all industry stakeholders.”
