Cognizant Value Stock - Dividend - Research Selection

We are one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming customers’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps customers envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Our core competencies include: business, process, operations and technology consulting, application development and systems integration, enterprise information management, application testing, application maintenance, information technology, or IT, infrastructure services, and business process services. We tailor our services to specific industries and utilize an integrated global delivery model with customer service teams typically based on site at customer locations and delivery teams located at dedicated global delivery centers.

In today’s complex business environment, many companies face intense competitive pressure and rapidly changing market dynamics, driven by such factors as changes in technology, macroeconomic conditions, and government regulations, globalization and virtualization. Across industries and geographies, companies are looking for innovative ways to adapt their traditional business models, products and services. Technology is now the underpinning force behind new smart products, customer expectations and the proliferation of behavioral data. As a result, businesses are increasingly becoming technology-intensive. These digital technologies represent a new source of value that continues to transform the way companies relate to their customers, engage with employees, and bring innovative products and services to market. In response to these opportunities, many companies are focused on improving efficiencies and enhancing effectiveness while also driving innovation through technology to favorably impact both the bottom-line and the top-line. Many companies are transforming their business, operating and technology models to ensure their businesses stay competitive in this new digital era. At the same time, they continue to view a global sourcing model as an important means to operate more cost-effectively and productively.

Our customers seek to meet a dual mandate of achieving more efficient and effective operations, including cost reductions, while investing in digital technologies that are reshaping their business models. Increasingly, the relative emphasis among our customers is shifting towards investment and innovation. We strive to help our customers navigate the shift to digital. Digital services is work we do to help our customers win in the digital economy by applying technology and analytics to change consumer experiences to drive sustainable growth, deploying systems of intelligence to automate and improve core business processes, and improving technology systems by deploying cloud and cyber security solutions and as-a-service models to make them simpler, more modern and secure.

Our objective is to create value for both our customers and stockholders by enhancing our position as a leading professional services company in the digital era. Our key strategies to achieve this objective are the following:

We are aligning our digital services along three practice areas across our four industry-oriented business segments to address the needs of our customers as they transform their business, operating and technology models.

Cognizant Digital Business. Our digital business practice works with customers to reshape their products and business models, and impacts how organizations interact with their customers, employees and partners. Our approach combines data science, design thinking, and deep industry and process knowledge with solid technology capabilities to unite the physical and virtual aspects of a company’s offerings seamlessly across every channel. We help customers identify insights, develop business models and go-to-market strategies, and design, prototype and scale meaningful experiences.

Cognizant Digital Operations. Our digital operations practice helps customers re-engineer, digitize, manage and operate their most essential business processes to lower operating costs, improve user experiences and deliver better outcomes and top-line growth. Across the practice, we are creating automated, data-driven platforms and industry utilities. We help customers develop more effective operating models by applying both traditional optimization levers and helping them achieve process excellence.

Cognizant Digital Systems & Technology. Our digital systems and technology practice works with customers to simplify, modernize and secure IT infrastructure and applications by leveraging automation, analytics and agile development to unlock the power of their technology environments. We help customers create and evolve systems that meet their needs in the modern enterprise by delivering industry-leading standards of performance, cost and flexibility.

Our global consulting team provides business, process, operations and technology consulting services to bring together the capabilities of all three of our digital practice areas into effective solutions for our customers. Our Cognizant Business Consulting, or CBC, professionals and domain experts from our industry-focused business segments work closely with our digital practice areas to create frameworks, platforms and solutions that customers are finding valuable as they pursue next-level savings and new revenue streams.

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