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• Cognizant Corporate Overview
Cognizant - A Passion for Building
Stronger Businesses
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a global provider of
information technology, consulting and business
process outsourcing services headquartered in
Teaneck, N.J. Cognizant was founded in 1994 as an
IT development and maintenance services arm of
The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. The company
was spun-off as an independent organization two
years later. Since 1996, Cognizant has worked
closely with large organizations to help them
build stronger, more efficient, and more agile
businesses. Today, Cognizant enables global enterprises to address a dual mandate: to make their
current operations as efficient and cost-effective
as possible, and to invest in innovation
to unleash new potential across their
217,700 organizations.
With app.
associates — and growing
— Cognizant is a leading
provider with the
breadth and depth of
capabilities to deliver
on the most challenging
customer needs
By leveraging highly flexible business
processes, a seamless global delivery
network and deep domain expertise,
Cognizant delivers a better “return on
outsourcing.” What makes Cognizant
unique is our ability to help clients
meet both challenges. We help them
enhance productivity by ensuring that
vital business functions work faster,
cheaper and better. And, our ability to
conceptualize, architect and implement
new and expanded capabilities allows clients to
transform legacy models to take their business to
the next level.
From its founding, Cognizant was built with a global
mindset. With headquarters in the U.S. and a rapidly
expanding delivery footprint that extends from India
and China to Europe, North and South America,
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and the Middle East, Cognizant has the geographic
presence and mix of onsite and offshore resources
to be the preferred global services partner across
industry. Because clients see globalization as a key
element to their success, our “born global” heritage
is viewed as a significant market advantage.
Key Highlights
•• Unique blend of onsite/offshore resources of
approximately 217,700 passionate
professionals
•• Strong relationships with customers worldwide
•• Enhanced domain focus through
subverticalization
•• More than 90% of annual revenue from
existing customers
•• Proactive solutions offerings to improve operational efficiency, complying with industry regulations, and improving customer service levels
Recognized as a Leader
We are gratified that our passion for building
stronger businesses is consistently recognized
by independent sources and customers. Recent
accolades include:
World’s Most Admired Companies
•• Fortune’s
(February 2015)
of Talent Development’s BEST
•• Association
Awards (October 2014)
•• Forbes Fast Tech 25 (June 2013)
The greatest tributes by far are those we get
from our customers, who choose to partner with
Cognizant and entrust us with critical aspects of
their businesses. Global 2000 customers select
Cognizant because our passion and professionalism
provides strong competitive advantage in their
“race for the future.” It’s a race we are passionate
about helping customers win.
A Passionate Focus on Customer
Needs
At Cognizant, we are proud to have built a culture
attuned to anticipating and understanding our
customers’ needs, and then working in close
partnership with them to make their businesses
stronger — more productive, more profitable,
more capable of capturing market opportunities
— and thus more valuable.
Our unique Two-in-a-Box™ customer-relationship
model offers greater customer intimacy,
speed of delivery, local decision-making, and
responsiveness, which has helped Cognizant
build deep, fast-growing partnerships with
customers. This model combines technical and
account management teams located onsite at
the customer location and offshore at dedicated
development centers located in India and
around the world. By
working closely with our
We are working in
customers’ leadership
partnership with
teams, we gain better
insights for providing the
customers to make
best possible IT-enabled
their businesses
solutions to their
stronger and more
business challenges.
A Passion for Specialized Expertise
valuable.
To meet the specialized needs of each client,
Our Goal
Making our
customers’ businesses
stronger by empowering them to be
more responsive to their customers
and to the competitive environment.
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Cognizant has continued to invest in deepening
our industry-specific organizational capabilities
and delivery excellence. We continuously add experienced team members with distinguished track
records in key sectors, such as banking, capital
markets, insurance, life sciences, healthcare,
manufacturing, logistics, retail, utilities, hospitality, communications, information services, media,
and entertainment, who serve as subject matter
experts and provide clients with valid insights into
and viable solutions to particular industry issues.
Cognizant has a global delivery platform that
supports an onsite-offshore model that meets
clients’ needs 24/7. Our service delivery is powered
by Cognizant 2.0, our global knowledge-sharing
and project management platform. Cognizant 2.0
enables our teams, business partners and clients
to collaborate virtually via instant messaging,
blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 tools. The platform
also provides active process guidance to our
project teams, enabling them to work faster
and more efficiently solving IT and business
challenges. In a typical client engagement, our
team members located at the customer’s place
of business handle approximately 25-30% of the
workload. The balance is performed at one of
over 100 global development and delivery centers
around the world.
At a time when companies
across the globe are relentlessly striving to compete Our industry focus
better, move faster, and allows us to understand
fight harder, leading organizations across various our customers’
industries — from financial businesses, industry
services and healthcare initiatives, and cultures,
through
manufacturing,
media, retail, utilities, and and to create solutions
telecommunications — are that fit their individual
partnering with Cognizant needs.
to continuously elevate the
business value of their IT
assets and to make their businesses stronger.
Independent Cognizant customer satisfaction
surveys consistently reveal that our customers
28 of the top 30 Global Pharmaceutical Companies
8 of the top 10 U.S. Healthcare Plans
9 of the top 10 Biotech Companies
2 of the top 5 Medical Device Companies
7 of the top 10 Global Insurers
33 of the top 50 US P&C Insurers
Healthcare
&
Life Sciences
7 of top 10 Communications
Services Providers &
Equipment Vendors
Insurance
6 of the top 10
North American banks
8 of the top 10 European banks
Banking &
Financial
Services
Communications
Technology
4 of the top 5 Online
Companies
7 of the top 10 ISVs
2 of the top 5 Semiconductor
Manufacturers
7 of the top 10 SCommunications Services Providers &
Equipment Vendors
Manufacturing
& Logistics
Retail,
Travel &
Hospitality
Information,
Media &
Entertainment
9 of the top 30 Global Retailers
3 leading US Airlines
3 of the World’s Leading Restaurant Chains
2 of the top 4 Global Distribution System companies
4 of the top 10 Information Service Companies
6 Major U.S. Movie Studios
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7 of the top 10 Automotive OEM
4 of the top 15 Industrial Manufacturers
4 of the top 15 Chemical Manufacturers
4 of the top 15 Logistics Providers
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Cognizant’s Unique Operating Model
Deep relationship aligned with the customer organization
Empowered organization with focus on value
addition in domain and technology
receive superior quality IT services at significantly lower cost, which enables them to maintain operational agility and focus on core competencies that drive bottom-line and top-line growth.
Our Portfolio of Services
Across each business segment, Cognizant provides a broad and expanding range of information
technology consulting and business processing outsourcing services, including:
•• Project-based application services
•• Business and technology consulting
•• Complex systems integration
•• Application outsourcing
•• Digital Strategy, Marketing & Operations
•• Business process services
•• IT infrastructure and cloud services
•• Analytics, Business Intelligence, CRM,
Data Warehousing, Supply Chain Management,
Mobility, Engineering & Manufacturing
solutions, ERP & Testing Solutions
About Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business
process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world’s leading companies build stronger
businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative
workforce that embodies the future of work.
With over 100 global development and delivery centers worldwide and approximately 217,700 employees
as of March 31, 2015, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000,
and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the
world. Visit us online at www.cognizant.com or follow us on Twitter: Cognizant.
World Headquarters
European Headquarters
India Operations Headquarters
500 Frank W. Burr Blvd.
Teaneck, NJ 07666 USA
Phone: +1 201 801 0233
Fax: +1 201 801 0243
Toll Free: +1 888 937 3277
1 Kingdom Street
Paddington Central
London W2 6BD
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7297 7600
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7121 0102
#5/535, Old Mahabalipuram Road
Okkiyam Pettai, Thoraipakkam
Chennai, 600 096 India
Phone: +91 (0) 44 4209 6000
Fax: +91 (0) 44 4209 6060
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