TEANECK, N.J., Feb. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) today announced that it has been named a "market leader" in the recently released Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting an Outsourced Testing Service Provider 2014-15, which focuses on the growing market for service providers offering comprehensive outsourced testing of software applications.

The report, which analyzed the top 15 global service providers for testing services, assessed a variety of criteria including offerings, execution and market impact. The report highlights Cognizant as a "market leader" which Ovum states is a category that represents the leading solutions that it believes are worthy of a place on most testing selection shortlists. Vendors identified as a "market leader" have established a commanding market position with a product that is widely accepted as best-of-breed.

Cognizant provides a broad range of on-premise and cloud-based application testing services and is one of the world's leading software QA providers with more than 28,000 career testers and consultants. With a variety of innovative services including ADPART (Activity Diagram-Based Path Analysis and Regression Testing); fasTest, a cloud-based, on-demand testing delivery service; and Cognizant Mobility Testing Lab, a cloud-based test lab-as-a-service for mobile apps, Cognizant helps clients shorten time to market, control costs, improve quality, and drive innovation.

"Cognizant stands out for how it articulates the implications of end-to-end responsibility and aligns them with organizational issues around testing services, and for its embedding of the discussion of the evolution of testing into the contingencies of sourcing strategies and business processes... Specifically, where end-to-end responsibility is defined around business outcomes, the liability is not just confined to testing capabilities but to guaranteeing the efficiency of business processes," the report stated.

"Cognizant's key differentiating IP is its ADPART suite for model-based testing. This embeds testing services into business processes and provides dashboards that allow business analysts to manage test assets without needing special knowledge, enabling them to draft, review and certify the business flows," the report added.

"In an increasingly digital world, quality assurance has become ever more challenging and important in addressing business and customer needs," said Andreas Golze, Cognizant's Vice President of Quality Engineering & Assurance in Europe. "It is not just about improving IT efficiency, but also about leveraging IT to enhance business agility, innovation, and customer experience. The Ovum recognition speaks to our ability to ensure faster delivery of better quality business solutions to help enterprises attract, retain, and grow their customer base. Our enterprise QA framework is supported by industry-leading methodologies and proprietary testing tools that combine the latest analytics, mobile environments, and testing software from leading product vendors. This enables us to work across a range of hardware and software, testing infrastructure, and testing products in order to optimize development initiatives, and ensure timely and effective deployment of high-quality applications, thereby delivering a greater volume of business-critical projects and improving return on investment."

Read the full Ovum report here.

About Ovum 
Ovum is a leading global technology research and advisory firm. Through its 180 analysts worldwide it offers expert analysis and strategic insight across the IT, telecoms, and media industries. Founded in 1985, Ovum has one of the most experienced analyst teams in the industry and is a respected source of guidance for technology business leaders, CIOs, vendors, service providers, and regulators looking for comprehensive, accurate, and insightful market data, research, and consulting. With 23 offices across six continents, Ovum offers a truly global perspective on technology and media markets and provides thousands of clients with insight including workflow tools, forecasts, surveys, market assessments, technology audits, and opinion. In 2012, Ovum was jointly named Global Analyst Firm of the Year by the IIAR. Ovum is a division of Informa plc, one of the leading business and academic publishing and event organizers globally, headquartered in London. Informa is quoted on the London Stock Exchange.

About Cognizant's Quality Engineering & Assurance Practice
Cognizant's Quality Engineering & Assurance (QE&A) practice is an independent business unit within Cognizant, offering a comprehensive suite of assurance services spanning QA consulting, quality engineering, environment management, and digital QA. With the establishment of this business unit in 2001, Cognizant pioneered the concept of a practice dedicated to independent verification and validation. Since then, the practice has grown organically to more than 28,000 professionals, making it one of the world's largest providers of QA services. Cognizant's QE&A practice is organized by areas of industry specialization to leverage Cognizant's domain expertise and provide domain-aligned QA services.

About Cognizant  
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 75 development and delivery centers worldwide and approximately 211,500 employees as of December 31, 2014, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world. Visit us online at www.cognizant.com or follow us on Twitter: Cognizant.

Forward-Looking Statements 
This press release includes statements which may constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the accuracy of which are necessarily subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied include general economic conditions and the factors discussed in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Cognizant undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities law.

Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110329/NY67603LOGO

To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cognizant-recognized-as-market-leader-in-ovum-decision-matrix-on-outsourced-testing-service-providers-300031162.html

SOURCE Cognizant