Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
500 Glenpointe Ctr W
Teaneck, New Jersey 07666-6804
USA
tel: +1 2018010233
http://www.cognizant.com
Description
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is a Teaneck, New Jersey-based company that employs an onsite/offshore development model to provide application maintenance services and enterprise consulting solutions to major corporations, primarily in the United States. Cognizant is one of the few companies that has found a way to take advantage of the large pool of English-speaking IT professionals produced in India, where approximately 80,000 programmers graduate each year from universities. Because these software professionals typically make around $15,000 a year, compared with $75,000 in the United States, Cognizant is able to offer considerable savings to its customers. The onsite/offshore model also allows the company to work 24 hours a day on a project. During the U.S. work day, Cognizant's onsite team meets with the customer to review the work their Indian colleagues completed the night before. Feedback is then available for the Indian programmers when they begin their day. A further advantage is that system work is done at a time when there is little network congestion. Moreover, cultural differences between the United States and India work in Cognizant's favor. In India, the position of software engineer is more prestigious, meaning that scores of talented people enter the field. Indians are also less individualistic than their American counterparts and more willing to adhere to a process, which is an important factor in making the onsite/offshore approach run smoothly. To provide security, the company runs background checks on overseas employees; to prevent theft of data, it provides only diskless personal computers. Cognizant operates 11 software development centers in India, as well as centers in Limerick, Ireland, and in Phoenix, Arizona. Sales offices are located in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, London, and Frankfurt. With a focus on North American and European Fortune 1000 companies in the healthcare, financial services, and information fields, Cognizant boasts such major customers as AC Nielsen Corporation, The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, First Data Corporation, and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
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Products
- Computer related consulting services
- Computer software development and applications
- Computer Systems Design Services
- Custom Computer Programming Services
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