Cognizant
Connect and Extract Value.
Overview
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HQ Location
United States
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Year Founded
1994
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Company Type
Public
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Revenue
> $10b
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Employees
> 50,000
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Website
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Stock Ticker
NASDAQ: CTSH
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Company Description
Cognizant is a provider of information technology, consulting and business process services. Its customers are primarily corporations from the Forbes Global 2000, and it targets customers in the financial services, health care, manufacturing, retail, and logistics sectors. Year founded: 1988 Revenue: $14.8 billion (2017) NASDAQ:CTSH
IoT Solutions
With over 12 billion connected devices in the world, there are now smarter "things" than people, collecting and connecting all that valuable data designed to facilitate the way we work. With its technology-agnostic approach and industry expertise, Cognizant is providing today's leading companies a comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) roadmap to transform their operations and business models into the 21st-century enterprise. Cognizant brings together the right blend of industry knowledge, strategy, design thinking and technology capabilities to help companies digitize the physical world. They offer IoT consulting, strategy, implementation and operational support to help untangle the complexity of IoT and align a solution to address the concerns. Their managed innovation process simplifies the complexity of IoT to take ideas from the drawing board to prototype, and then scale the best ones with their proven global delivery model.
Key Customers
Lido Stone Works, Merck, GoWireless
IoT Snapshot
Cognizant is a provider of Industrial IoT infrastructure as a service (iaas), application infrastructure and middleware, analytics and modeling, functional applications, cybersecurity and privacy, and sensors technologies, and also active in the automotive, equipment and machinery, healthcare and hospitals, life sciences, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, plastics, retail, and utilities industries.
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Technology Stack
Cognizant’s Technology Stack maps Cognizant’s participation in the infrastructure as a service (iaas), application infrastructure and middleware, analytics and modeling, functional applications, cybersecurity and privacy, and sensors IoT Technology stack.
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Cloud Layer
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Case Studies.
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Fusion Middleware Integration on Cloud for Pharma Major
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Testing Engagement for a Fortune 500 Manufacturing Company
The client wanted to reduce operating costs while increasing efficiency and consistency within the IT and quality assurance organizations. Executive management mandated continuous process improvement, but the environment lacked consistent processes or tools to manage. A cost-effective software testing was needed.
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A Customized Cloud Framework Guarantees Vehicle's Mission and Health
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Transformed IT Infrastructure Improves Business Agility
A global security, storage, and systems management software provider planned to demerge into two separate companies. To prepare, it undertook a major overhaul of its IT infrastructure and operations strategy. A key requirement: streamlining the Hosting Group, which handled compute, storage, and middleware operations. These functions had grown complex and had a wide geographic distribution. The company planned to bring them under closer in-house management.The company looked to increase its business agility so it could quickly and creatively respond to customer demands with improved internal collaboration and optimized go-to- market and IT service delivery capabilities. Modernizing IT functions, and making them more responsive, was critical to achieving these goals.
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Software firm reduces time to market by 50%
The company faced bandwidth issues in resourcing, managing different partners, and executing its product roadmap. The product roadmap’s disparate management approach forced the company to release generic campaigns that lacked personalization. Balancing work priorities among different stakeholders created growing dependencies and delays.The company wanted to migrate to the cloud for scalability and better data-driven decision-making capabilities. It also wanted to reduce overall infrastructure costs, centralize disparate smaller teams, and deploy a third-party personalization and experimentation platform. The company partnered with Cognizant on a digital marketing transformation and the selection and deployment of a personalization platform.
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Process Redesign Results: $2M Cost Savings
The company struggled to achieve the desired efficiencies and scale needed to support consistent growth in terms of accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) functions from its facilities in South America and Central Europe. The prior IT service providers’ collections data was consistently in the low range of 60% based on its historical records.As a result, the company was forced to pursue other options to improve cash flow and reduce the aging of outstanding receivables in conjunction with standardization across geographies. The company reached out to Cognizant—their tried-and-tested strategic partner of seven years—to help them achieve the 70% collections goal.
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Strategic Partnership to Enhance Productivity and Innovation
The company needed a trusted and long-term strategic partner to provide technical and engineering support to its video engineering unit. It wanted to focus on investment and resources to develop new product concepts for next-generation offerings while continuing to deliver high-quality service to its existing customer base in Europe. The company turned to Cognizant.
Case Study
Tech Titan Transforms Its Global HR Systems
A multibillion-dollar technology firm, with more than 140,000 employees across 180 countries, was struggling with multiple customized, outdated HR systems. Maintenance costs were high. Processes were cumbersome and riddled with heavy paperwork. And data was inaccessible in real-time.The company needed a modern HR system to standardize and simplify processes, reduce maintenance costs and empower employees with easy access to data.
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UX Team Hub Accelerates Time to Market by 35% for Payments Provider
The company wanted to consolidate its design group in California, creating a central hub for the company’s product, engineering, and design talent in one location and thus accelerating product development. The company wanted to provide strategic and flexible user experience (UX) design services, ensuring consistency and continuity of project resources.The digital payments provider also wanted to establish last-mile design support to global product design and engineering teams, as well as create governance for efficient, effective coordination across projects.Above all, the company wanted a partner that could staff the new hub with 35 UX design consultants and ramp it up for scale and agility—in 30 days.
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Subscription Licensing Unlocks Spike in Technology Orders
With its high initial cost and ongoing expense, is becoming harder to defend in a market increasingly reliant on software-as-a-service (SaaS). One major technology player saw an opportunity to increase its revenue by adding a subscription payment model to its traditional on-premises licensing.Adding subscriptions meant changes to product and solution pricing, support, and billing as well as the underlying technology for these processes. A new technology platform would be required to support these business model changes.
Case Study
Transformation of IT Infrastructure by Streamlining Operations Strategies
The company wanted to revamp its IT and infrastructure operations strategy. It wanted to bring the functions of the hosting group in charge of computing, storage, and middleware operations under closer in-house management.However, the provider didn’t have the necessary visibility into its operations to determine the scope of these critical processes, which when disrupted would result in huge revenue losses and negatively impact its technology strategy.External management of the provider’s IT infrastructure also left users dependent on manual delivery and provisioning mechanisms, rather than benefitting from automated and self-service processes.
Case Study
Data Access at the Speed of Digital
The company needed to upgrade and modernize a key part of its new customer onboarding process, the gateway to its product offerings. It needed to speed up the process, boost sales through new partnerships and integrate seamlessly with any partner.Because of Cognizant’s long-term relationship with the company, the company chose us to re-architect and modernize its match application, which connects each customer’s data with a unique identifier, at the heart of its business process and to migrate the app to a cloud environment.
Case Study
Data-Rich Company Cracks the Digital B2B Market
The company with little presence in the fast-growing business-to-business (B2B) digital marketing space wanted to tap into its powerful data assets to quickly enter this new market. The data-rich company asked Cognizant to help it leverage its core data assets.
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