About Cognizant > Innovation INNOVATION CONTACT Emerging Business Accelerator Driving Innovation@Cognizant "Our Emerging Business Accelerator (EBA) helps identify trends and ideas—incubating the most promising ones across new technologies, delivery models and markets." - Francisco D'Souza, March 2014 Overview Digital Technologies Business Accelerator Innovation Ecosystem EBA IDENTIFIES, NURTURES AND GROWS THE BEST NEW IDEAS Being big doesn't mean we're not nimble. Cognizant's Emerging Business Accelerator pushes the frontiers of innovation and makes sure the solutions we create for clients keep challenging what's possible. The EBA is organized into three areas: Digital Technologies A core component of innovation at Cognizant is research and development, in which we experiment with new software fabrics that sense, learn and predict customer behavior, fueling transformation of operations and business models. Business Accelerator Cognizant sponsors internal entrepreneurs, providing people, capital and support to create industry-specific solutions that propel client solutions forward, often in platform-based, cloud-driven BPaaS models. Innovation Ecosystem Cognizant matches emerging technologies from academic institutions, venture capital firms, accelerators and startups to our business and R&D teams. Together, we create new offerings that add value to the larger solution sets we deliver and manage for clients. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES Across all our practices, we focus on Code Halo technologies that transform the customer relationship, reduce costs and speed time-to-market. Two key elements of this approach include our Cognizant Digital Works offering and our Global Technology Office (GTO), which performs digital technology R&D. We help CIOs, CMOs and CTOs and their staff with strategic roadmaps that chart a path towards developing digital customer experiences and minimizing the risk of IT-business transformation. BUSINESS ACCELERATOR In our work with clients, we often solve problems and provide solutions that can apply more broadly to the entire industry. EBA has built an entrepreneurial framework within the company, tapping the talent, ideas and energy of our employees to come up with new products and solutions. We invest a disproportionate amount of time and resources on the most promising entrepreneurial ideas and sponsor several dozen ventures across the company. We are continuously sponsoring more and more “lean startups” to keep challenging what’s possible in our solutions for clients. INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM The Global Innovation Ecosystem enables innovation with a diverse, global network of external partners and industry leaders. Together, we discover, develop, validate and enable new technologies that help our clients innovate. This includes offering clients direct access to our ecosystem through Innovation Forum events and “Next Is Now” showcases. Sitemap Legal Privacy Policy Cookie Policy ©2017 Cognizant, all rights reserved INDUSTRIES Banking & Financial Services Communications Consumer Goods Education Energy & Utilities Healthcare Information Services Insurance Life Sciences Manufacturing Media & Entertainment Retail Technology Transportation & Logistics Travel & Hospitality SERVICES Cognizant Digital Business Analytics and Information Management Digital Solutions Insight, Strategy & Design Intelligent Products & Solutions Interactive Cognizant Digital Operations Analytics Business Process Services Cloud Customer Relationship Management Intelligent Automation Cognizant Digital Systems & Technology Application Services Cognizant Infrastructure Services Customer Relationship Management Enterprise Application Services Enterprise Risk and Security Solutions Human Capital Management Quality Engineering & Assurance Supply Chain Management COGNIZANT BUSINESS CONSULTING LATEST THINKING Search Latest Thinking Perspectives Code Halos Cognizanti Journal The Work Ahead Business Value of Trust Digital Workforce of the Future Future of Work Blockchain WEF 2017—Davos When Machines Do Everything Latest Strategies Cognizant Connections ABOUT COGNIZANT Company Overview Approach Innovation@Cognizant Partnerships News & Press Releases Cognizant Events Contact Us INFORMATION FOR SUPPLIERS Procure-to-Pay