Cognizant recently received the Most Innovative Solution Award at the Hitachi Next 2018 event in San Diego.

Recognized for its commitment to transform its clients’ business models through innovative solutions, Cognizant received the award for transforming a leading international Energy & Services company’s IT infrastructure. The client found itself operating in a highly challenging business environment while also struggling with fragmented IT systems, processes, tools, along with high turnaround times for new customer onboarding, outdated infrastructure and inflexible security. They selected Cognizant for its experience in delivering on modernization while driving simplification and higher security.

Using its Hybrid Cloud services, Cognizant developed a solution that increased business agility and operational efficiency, improved customer satisfaction and accelerated innovation of new smart products and services. The solution also harnessed automation to provide an improved, superior customer experience and self-service utilizing Cognizant’s enterprise-wide HiveCenter automation ecosystem.

“We are pleased to receive Hitachi Vantara’s Most innovative Solution award for our hybrid cloud solution,” said Venu Lambu, Global Markets Leader, Cloud & Infrastructure Services, Cognizant. “Our first collaboration with Hitachi Vantara, we were able to provide managed hybrid cloud services delivered through the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud. We now have a ready-to-go cloud offering that can quickly and easily be marketed to all customers and prospects. Together, Hitachi and Cognizant deliver more than the sum of their parts.”