Infosys acquires oddity to boost metaverse and digital experience capabilities

Today, global digital services consultancy Infosys announced it will acquire German-based consulting agency oddity.

In addition to expanding the reach of Infosys’s client base in Europe and northeast Asia, oddity also strengthens consulting expertise in digital experience (DX) and e-commerce, helping companies to transform their digital footprints and update their retail channels.

On the creative side, the addition of oddity helps boost experience design capabilities, as well as branding initiatives, for orgs. These capabilities merge with Infosys’s earlier acquisition of creative agency WONGDOODY. Oddity will become part of WONGDOODY and join its network of studios in the U.S., London and India, according to the company.

DX meets the metaverse. “We find ourselves at the cusp of the next generation of the Internet, the merging of the physical and virtual worlds,” said Ravi Kumar S, President of Infosys. “With this vision, we are excited to strengthen our experience and marketing skills with oddity, to deliver forward-thinking, holistic solutions at a global scale.” 

He added, “With oddity’s digital commerce and marketing knowledge as well as its metaverse-ready set-up, it is the perfect complement to Infosys’ prowess in technological transformation.”

Why we care. Branding is crucial across all digital touchpoints, as is experience. This makes digital transformation for brands a creative problem to solve, as well as an opportunity to improve experience. Traditional creative services need to be backed up by tech know-how. 

And this merging of creative and digital prowess becomes even more prevalent in virtual and augmented-reality experiences. A metaverse pop-up shop has to have the same superior DX because its visitors are digital natives and will expect it.

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Chris Wood draws on over 15 years of reporting experience as a B2B editor and journalist. At DMN, he served as associate editor, offering original analysis on the evolving marketing tech landscape. He has interviewed leaders in tech and policy, from Canva CEO Melanie Perkins, to former Cisco CEO John Chambers, and Vivek Kundra, appointed by Barack Obama as the country’s first federal CIO. He is especially interested in how new technologies, including voice and blockchain, are disrupting the marketing world as we know it. In 2019, he moderated a panel on “innovation theater” at Fintech Inn, in Vilnius. In addition to his marketing-focused reporting in industry trades like Robotics Trends, Modern Brewery Age and AdNation News, Wood has also written for KIRKUS, and contributes fiction, criticism and poetry to several leading book blogs. He studied English at Fairfield University, and was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He lives in New York.