Industries Services Digital Latest Thinking About Careers News Events Investors Worldwide Find Solutions > Services > Consulting BUSINESS CONSULTING Digital technologies allow companies to become more human. We help organizations engage people and uncover insight from data to shape the products, services and experiences they offer. Our Approach Strategic Capabilites Industry Expertise Our Latest Thinking OUR APPROACH We work with the world’s leading organizations to provide collaborative solutions to their Business and IT challenges with innovative ideas that are embraced by their customers. More than 5,300 professionals around the world leverage deep industry knowledge across 15 verticals including: Banking and Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail and Consumer Goods and Insurance to deliver robust digital solutions in key areas of client growth. COGNIZANT BUSINESS CONSULTING RECOGNIZED AS A LEADER IN BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION Forrester notes, “Cognizant was the surprise in this field of more traditional business‑consulting names because of how quickly it has built up high‑quality assets for large-scale business transformations.” DOWNLOAD THE FORRESTER WAVE™ STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES Data & Analytics To make better business decisions, challenge your assumptions. Turn information into insight with our latest cloud, big data and predictive analytics solutions. Business Process Services Rethink how you run your business with the help of our industry-savvy consultants. We improve performance, enhance productivity and drive growth initiatives. Organizational Change Management Successful organizational change is a top management mandate. Our Change Management practice works with executives on strategic and transformational challenges. Customer Relationship Management Building a strong relationship with your customers is as important to us as it is to you. Tap into expert solutions to connect with your customers. Digital Transformation Cognizant enables organizations to create engaging and consistent digital experiences across every touchpoint, providing new opportunities for growth. Supply Chain Optimization We can help you re-wire your supply chain to improve global trade, transportation, distribution, planning, collaboration and forecasting performance. Business & IT Strategy Our consultants create business strategies that enable global companies to define new business and target operating models to maximize value and manage complex changes throughout their organizations. Enterprise Architecture Services Maintaining business agility isn’t easy when technologies and business requirements keep changing. Our approach to Enterprise Architecture ensures that businesses will stay current with emerging technology platforms and be able to harness new opportunities. Enabling Infrastructure IT expectations are higher than ever. Our experts can help you build and manage an IT infrastructure that equals the demands of a changing business environment. Mergers & Acquisitions We provide strategic due diligence, business and IT target-state definition, implementation planning, governance support and change management. Program Management We help leading companies drive business transformation by providing industry-leading program management consulting services. Quality Engineering & Assurance If you don’t have the resources for testing, leave it to us. Our world-class QA team and rigorous testing processes provide the assurance your company deserves. INDUSTRY EXPERTISE BANKING & FINANCIAL SERVICES The industry is constantly evolving as it deals with changing economics, regulatory pressures and the growth of mobile banking. We’re here to help you stay ahead. COMMUNICATIONS Your business needs to move at a lightning fast speed to keep pace with technology and customer demands. Our cutting-edge solutions like network management and cloud services can adapt at the same speed. CONSUMER GOODS By identifying new ways to connect with customers, our solutions can help consumer products companies enhance their brands and grow market share. EDUCATION The future of education is all about new ways of learning - from online tools to in-classroom courses. We offer the latest solutions to keep challenging the learning experience. ENERGY & UTILITIES Cognizant helps challenge the way you look at your business and can help you find ways to utilize new technologies and pioneer new operating models. HEALTHCARE You’re committed to the care of your patients and clients. And we’re committed to helping your business improve and grow in a time of dramatic change. INFORMATION SERVICES Companies like yours have revolutionized real-time information. To maintain and sharpen your business edge, turn to our experts. INSURANCE Moderating interest rates, higher costs and new ways of delivering service are changing the insurance industry. Let us challenge the way you do business with our emerging technologies and services. LIFE SCIENCES As the life science industry continues to change, so should your way of thinking about how you manage core processes. Our tailored solutions can help. MANUFACTURING We’ll help challenge the way you develop, source and distribute your products today so that you can revolutionize your performance tomorrow. MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT The way you create, manage and deliver your digital assets is an important part of your business. Together, we’ll develop smart solutions to make it easier. RETAIL Looking for new ways to make your business more successful? Our innovations in supply chain management, merchandising, e-commerce and mobility can take your business to a whole new level. TECHNOLOGY While you’re leading the way in the tech industry, our team is doing the same to help online companies, software vendors and hardware manufacturers define their future. TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS Running a successful transportation company today means being more responsive. Our out-of-the-box thinking can help streamline your operations, improve visibility and drive business performance. TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY Getting a competitive advantage means challenging conventional thinking. Our flexible global IT and business services helps you stay ahead. OUR LATEST THINKING Mortgage Banking: A Holistic Approach to Managing Compliance Risk With regulatory compliance requirements rapidly on the rise, we offer a full-spectrum approach for mortgage banks for compliance risk management, combining regulatory analysis, identifying competing regulations, instituting operational process controls, effective data quality and document management strategies. SHARE Serialization: Driving Business Value Beyond Compliance Serialization and track-and-trace capabilities are not just useful for meeting regulatory compliance mandates; pharmaceutical companies can also explore their use to improve supply chain planning and operations, elevate patient engagement, and increase sales and marketing effectiveness. SHARE Connected Home Readiness and Maturity Assessment As communication service providers (CSPs) rapidly move into connected home services markets, assessing their readiness and maturity is crucial; we offer a questionnaire framework to determine CSPs' levels of readiness/maturity along key parameters: segmentation, customer education, organizational capabilities, platform strategy and interoperability. SHARE Transforming Finance and Accounting to Optimize Financial Close Many firms are working to accelerate and improve the daily financial close, but are far from ready. By formalizing the F&A value chain, modernizing and strengthening their F&A platform, assessing and optimizing existing service models and heightening overall F&A governance, companies can achieve this goal, supported by a set of success factors for measuring progress and aligning transformation activities. SHARE Delivering User Excitement in the Digital Era Through an Enterprise Service Hub To succeed in a digital world, enterprises must reengineer their help and service desks along a hub and spoke model, employing analytics and total case ownership to satisfy internal and external user needs as soon as they arise. SHARE Tailoring Omnichannel Fulfillment Strategies to Network Segments There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for optimizing the supply chain. However, when implemented with network segments, omnichannel fulfillment can help retailers optimize inventory at every point, meet or exceed service expectations and reduce the overall cost to serve. SHARE High-Velocity Supply Chains for Perishables: A Fresher Proposition In the perishables sector, providing the freshest products to customers remains a challenge, since doing so is not tied to a single business function. Developing a high-velocity supply chain is one of the most straightforward strategies for ensuring freshness, reducing shrink and realizing top- and bottom-line improvements. SHARE Dialing Up Digital: Retaining a New Generation of Customers Our survey confirmed that to attract and retain young, tech‑savvy customers, communications service providers must act fast to enhance their current services, better understand these customers’ needs and make their digital support channels easier to use. This involves analyzing the differences between younger and older customers and using that information to retain them and build their confidence. CSPs must also ensure that efforts to personalize solutions and services deliver the expected value and also provide the levels of security and privacy these customers demand. SHARE Why New‑age IT Operating Models are Necessary for Enhanced Operational Agility IT organizations need a new operating model consisting of automated tools, refined thinking around operating discipline and more relevant talent acquisition and management strategies. This new model will not only help IT deliver tailored services to a new generation of users, but it will also unlock the vast potential of emerging digital business opportunities made possible by the quickly maturing SMAC Stack. SHARE Next-Generation Insurance: Tapping Into the Intelligence of Smart Homes While the concept of smart homes is not new, the proliferation of household data from sensors and smart devices, plus advances in data analytics, present compelling opportunities for property and casualty insurers. Yet to reap the full benefits of smart homes, these companies must overcome fundamental challenges, including device costs, adoption rates, access to data, the lack of standardized communication protocols and privacy and security concerns. SHARE Sitemap Legal Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Safe Harbor ©2015 Cognizant, all rights reserved INDUSTRIES / SERVICES 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 Analytics Application Services Business Process Services Cloud Cognizant Digital Works Cognizant Infrastructure Services Consulting Customer Relationship Management Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions Enterprise Risk & Security Solutions Experience Design Human Capital Management Mobility Portals & Content Management Quality Engineering & Assurance Social Supply Chain Management Products & Platforms assetSERV™ CasKade – An Assurance Based Learning Solution ClaimSphere™ HEDIS® Cloud Integration Brokerage Cloud360 Cognizant OptimaWrite™ Cognizant S3P CSpark Innovation Management Solution fastest GeoLocus HealthActivate™ Interactive Exposure Map™ LifeEngage MedVantage Mobile Risk Engineering Solution ModelEye OrderServ SKUView SmartTrials SMaaS StarSERV™ targetSERV TruMobi WellSERV PHM WorkPort ZDLC™ IT Knowledge Automation™ COGNIZANT DIGITAL WORKS Digital Overview Digital Approach Digital Technologies Digital Thinking LATEST THINKING Perspectives Cognizanti Cognizant Connections Digital Business Code Halos Search Latest Thinking ABOUT COGNIZANT Company Overview Approach Innovation@Cognizant Partnerships News & Press Releases Events INFORMATION FOR SUPPLIERS Procure-to-Pay