Cognizant has been named the 2020 North American Systems Integrator (SI) of the Year by Qlik Technologies, Inc., a business intelligence and data visualization platform provider and a Cognizant Strategic partner for DB&T/Data and Intelligence.

The Qlik awards highlight outstanding Qlik partners that empower data to:

• Be instrumental in the modern enterprise
• Create a best-in-class environment of available tools and accelerators equipped with talent, methodologies and innovative ideas
• Jointly work with a data-native enterprises that are guided by intelligence to the future, real-time decision-making  and monetizing data assets

A third-time winner of the award, the Cognizant team was recognized by Qlik for its outstanding client outcomes, including the following:

• At a leading telco organization Cognizant implemented a report rationalization exercise using Qlik’s data analytics platform for significant operational efficiencies, reducing approximately 65,000 reports to nearly 850 reports in 10 weeks
• At a leading electrical utility company, Cognizant used Qlik’s market-leading data analytics platform to perform a sales and pricing analysis, resulting in a 24x7 data lake ingestion layer, ensuring less bandwidth usage, a 40% decrease in pipeline costs and a 50% reduction in total ingestion time while improving user experience
• For a global pharmaceutical company, Cognizant leveraged Qlik offerings and built a spend analytics platform, helping the company save up to 0.25% to 1% of annual spend and achieving an annual savings of nearly $5 million

“We are honored once again to receive this premier partner award,” said Anil Nagaraj, VP and Head of Engineering for Cognizant’s AI and Analytics practice. “This award is a testament of Cognizant’s robust partnership with Qlik and the endless opportunities we can create for our clients by implementing data integration and analytics solutions to help them make better business decisions, especially in these unprecedented times.”

Cognizant is one of only eight Global System Integrators for Qlik and is ranked at the highest premier partner tier within Qlik’s Premier Partner Program.