Cognizant is an American multinational corporation specializing in IT services, consulting, and digital solutions, headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey. Founded in 1994, it became a Fortune 500 company in 2011 and reported a revenue of $13.487 billion in 2016 with over 261,000 employees. The company has a history of strategic acquisitions and focuses on helping clients accelerate digital transformation initiatives.

1. PRESENTATION TITLE
“COGNIZANT”

2. INTRODUCTION…
 Cognizant is an American multinational corporation that provides IT
services, including digital, technology, consulting, and operations
services.
 It is headquartered inTeaneck, New Jersey, United States.
 Cognizant had a period of fast growth during the 2000s, becoming a
Fortune 500 company in 2011.
 In 2015, the Fortune magazine named it as the world's fourth most
admired IT services company.

3. IMPORTANT POINTS…
•Type-Public
•Trade as-NASDAQ: CTSH,NASDAQ- 100 Component,500
Component
•Industry-IT services, IT consulting
•Founded-January 26, 1994
•Founder-Kumar Mahadeva
•Area served-Worldwide
•Key people-Francisco D’Souza (CEO), Lakshmi Narayanan (Vice
Chairman)
•Services-IT Services, business consulting and outsourcing services
•Revenue-US$13.487 billion (2016)
•Profit-US$1.553 billion (2016)
•Total assets-US$14.262 billion (2016)
•Number of employees-261.200 (2017 Q1)

4. HISTORY…
In 1996, the company started pursuing customers beyond Dun &
Bradstreet.
In 1996, Dun & Bradstreet spun off several of its subsidiaries
including Erisco, IMS International, Nielsen Media Research, Pilot
Software, StrategicTechnologies and DBSS, to form a new
company called Cognizant Corporation.
In July 1997, Dun & Bradstreet bought Satyam's 24% stake in
DBSS for $3.4 million.
In 1998, the parent company, Cognizant Corporation, split into
two companies: IMS Health and Nielsen Media Research.
Kumar Mahadeva resigned as the CEO in 2003, and was replaced
by Lakshmi Narayanan.
In September 2014, Cognizant struck its biggest deal, acquiring
healthcare IT services providerTriZetto Corp for $2.7 billion.

5. ACQUISITIONS…
Company Aquired Country Date Business
CNO Financial
Group
India Feb 2015 IT Application
Development
Value source
technologies
India Oct 2013 IT Services
ING US USA June 2012 Technology
PIPC Group UK May 2010 Program & Project
Management
consulting
Odecee Australia Nov 2014 IT , Consulting &
BPO Services

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Services…
Cognizant provides information technology,
information security, consulting, ITO and BPO
services.
Cognizant Digital Works — created to help clients
rapidly build, pilot and scale enterprise-level digital
initiatives — is central to Cognizant's efforts to help
clients drive business change across their
operations and inform their go-to-market
activities.

7. CHARTS…
Major Revenue Sources
Revenue GrowthVS. Employee Growth

8. REFERENCE…
They who dream by day
are cognizant
of many things
which escape those
who dream
only by night.
Edgar Allen Poe