January 22, 2026 -- Everest Group has recognized Cognizant as a Leader in the Industry 4.0 Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025, highlighting the company’s breadth of capabilities across Industry 4.0 engineering and digital manufacturing.

As enterprises scale Industry 4.0 initiatives across operations and value chains, they require partners that can support transformation across complex industrial environments. Cognizant Industry 4.0 services span advisory, engineering, implementation and managed services, helping organizations modernize manufacturing and industrial operations through a combination of deep engineering expertise, AI-enabled solutions and digital capabilities that support intelligent and connected industrial environments.

Everest Group evaluated 30 engineering service providers globally, assessing their vision, capabilities, and market impact. This research is the third edition of Everest Group’s Industry 4.0 Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment, and Cognizant is proud to have been named as a Leader.

“Cognizant’s recognition as a Leader in Everest Group’s Industry 4.0 Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 reflects the firm’s focus on building a comprehensive Industry 4.0 services suite, which is further backed by competencies across embedded software engineering, MES, and IPs around predictive analytics, business intelligence, PLM, and digital twins. Cognizant’s IP-led approach, diverse client base spread across major verticals, and comprehensive deal origination channel help the firm position itself as key partner in enterprises’ manufacturing transformation journey,” says Nishant Udupa, Practice Director at Everest Group.

According to Everest Group, Industry 4.0 leaders are accelerating investments in dedicated labs, Centers of Excellence (CoEs) and research hubs focused on areas such as robotics, cybersecurity, edge computing and remote networking. Their strong IP portfolio in advisory and implementation enables these leaders to address high-priority use cases such as smart energy management, asset tracking and predictive maintenance. Cognizant’s continued investments in engineering talent, industry-specific accelerators and global delivery capabilities help enable clients to address high-priority use cases including smart energy management, asset performance optimization, connected factory transformations and predictive maintenance.

This report by Everest Group recognizes Cognizant’s “diversified client base spanning multiple geographies and industries” and highlights that its “comprehensive coverage of all deal-origination channels strengthens its position in Industry 4.0 services.” The assessment also points out that Cognizant’s strategic acquisitions, including Mobica and TQS Integration, have significantly enhanced the company’s capabilities in embedded software engineering, manufacturing execution system, and connected factory transformations.

“Industry 4.0 has moved well beyond experimentation as enterprises increasingly shift toward intelligent, connected, and more autonomous operations that scale decision-making across physical environments in a secure and trusted way, while delivering real business outcomes,” said Vibha Rustagi, SVP and Global Practice Head, IoT & Engineering at Cognizant. “Our recognition as a Leader in Everest Group’s Industry 4.0 Services PEAK Matrix Assessment reinforces our focus on combining deep engineering expertise with AI, data and platform capabilities aiming to help clients modernize operations, improve resilience and create long-term value across manufacturing and industrial environments.”

For more information on the recognition, read the report.

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