Cognizant today announced that Pegasystems Inc., the software company empowering customer engagement at the world’s leading enterprises, honored Cognizant with a 2018 Pega Partner Award for Excellence in Thought Leadership for AI and robotic automation that drives next generation efficiency and productivity for leading organizations. In winning this award, Cognizant demonstrated its commitment to accelerating growth in this category and its ongoing investment in developing skills in Pega’s robotic automation capabilities.

The winners of the 2018 Pega Partner Awards were recently announced at the annual PegaWorld conference in Las Vegas on June 3-6, 2018. These awards honor partners that have demonstrated exceptional performance in driving customer success, providing thought leadership, and accelerating growth. Pega is a leader in digital transformation software that enhances customer engagement and streamlines business operations.

“On behalf of Pega, it is my pleasure to honor one of our largest and most tenured partners, Cognizant, with a Partner Excellence in Thought Leadership award,” said Ken Nicolson, Vice President, Global Alliances, Pegasystems. “Cognizant continually produces thought leadership that goes beyond convention. Their viewpoints on AI and robotic automation have been instrumental in helping clients succeed on their digital transformation journeys.”

“Cognizant helps customers accelerate their shift to digital by systematically enabling operational excellence coupled with a cohesive digital strategy for transforming customer experience. As a longtime partner of Pega, Cognizant has been in the forefront of defining and realizing the vision of the future of work for our customers using Pega PlatformTM. We are honored to receive this award from Pega for Partner Excellence in Thought Leadership for AI and robotic automation,” said Harish Dwarkanhalli, Senior Vice President and Global Delivery Head of Integration, BPM and Customer Experience Practices, Cognizant.

“We are very excited and honored to receive this award.  The power of Pega Platform to drive end-to-end customer engagement and operational efficiencies combined with Cognizant’s deep domain expertise and system integration capabilities enable us to deliver digital at scale for our customers,” said Rajeev Saraf, Vice President and North America Market Leader for the Digital Process Automation, Integration and Customer Experiences Practices, Cognizant.