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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Twitter Handle
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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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A Customized Cloud Framework Guarantees Vehicle's Mission and Health
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Digital Marketing Transformation: Boosting Revenue and Efficiency
A leading US-based software 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.
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Strategic Partnership to Enhance Productivity and Innovation
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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.
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Process Redesign Saves $2M and Improves Collections for Cloud-Based Software Company
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Subscription Licensing Unlocks Spike in Technology Orders
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Case Study
Enhancing Customer Onboarding and Sales Growth through Cloud-based Solution
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