Cognizant

Cognizant Technology Solutions is an American information technology services provider, headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey. The primary location is however Chennai in India, where the majority of the approximately 171,400 employees working. In addition to further Indian production facilities, the Group also has a "Global Delivery Center " in Shanghai. Cognizant provides IT consulting and technology and outsourcing services through a global delivery model. Cognizant has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ (ticker symbol: CTSH ), and it ranks among the top 100 companies with the highest market capitalization of the NASDAQ -100.

History

Cognizant was founded in 1994 as a development division of Dun & Bradstreet ( D & B ) named Dun & Bradstreet Satyam Software. Originally the company was a joint venture by Dun & Bradstreet ( 76%) and Satyam Computer Services Ltd.. (24 %), but a 100 - percent subsidiary of D & B soon became

As part of a restructuring of D & B Group in 1996 was divided into three subgroups listed. The IT consultancy Gartner Group and the market research firm Dataquest and Pilot software and Erisco under the umbrella of Cognizant Corp., which specializes in the healthcare industry market research firm IMS, Nielsen Media Research were. summarized.

1998 Cognizant was divided again and Cognizant Technology Solutions was formed as a division of IMS Health. In the same year, Cognizant Technology Solutions went public ( NASDAQ: CTSH).

In November 2002, IMS thrust his majority, at Cognizant Technology Solutions.

On 5 March 2008 announce Cognizant Technology Solutions and T-Systems to build a common global service alliance for system integration.

Divisions

The shops are mainly focused on the following five vertically integrated areas:

  • Banking & Financial Services
  • Health Care & Life Sciences
  • Insurance
  • Manufacturing & Logistics
  • Retail
  • Information, Media & Entertainment
  • Technology
  • Communications

Competitor

Main competitors are Infosys and other IT service providers such as IBM, HP, Accenture, Satyam, Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Wipro, Aricent and Tata Consultancy Services.

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