A Buyers’ Guide to Cognizant

WHAT YOU’LL KNOW AFTER READING

This is a comprehensive buyer-focused analysis of Cognizant. This guide will enable buyers of outsourcing services to make better-informed sourcing decisions to not only outsource specific services but future-proof their organization in the context of the As-a-Service Economy.

WHAT THIS BUYERS’ GUIDE COVERS

The HfS Buyers’ Guide offers a view of the outsourcing services capabilities of Cognizant. It includes:

• Strategy, strengths, and weaknesses
• Industry and horizontal offerings
• Financials
• Blueprint performance:
• Blueprints covered from 2014 to 2017
• Location Capabilities
• Tools and Methodologies Used

KEY SERVICE PROVIDER DYNAMICS

• Cognizant has stayed focused on climbing up the value chain by providing High-value IT work and Consulting, hence, began a practice of reinvesting profits above the 20 percent mark back into the business to build new capabilities.
• Over 70% of Cognizant’s revenue comes from its repeat businesses and long-standing clients in the BFS and Healthcare verticals.
• Going forward the company to focus on improving efficiencies that affect the deliverable and improve the operating margins.
• Cognizant is establishing new practices, developing talent and skills, scaling up the onshore workforce and expanding the number of client innovation spaces called collaboratories across US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

WHO SHOULD READ THIS REPORT

• Sourcing Managers
• Procurement Professionals
• Buyer Department Heads
• Outsourcing Advisors
• Knowledge Analysts