Bloomberg TV India: Cognizant’s Group Chief Executive for Technology and Operations Ascribes the Company’s Growth to its Investments in Remaining Relevant to Customers

“We feel good with the demand for our services,” says R. Chandrasekaran. “We’ve been investing a lot to remain relevant to our customers. We are able to provide several services to our customers to run better and more efficiently. At the same time, many of our customers in almost all industry domains are faced with the challenge of driving business transformation, leveraging newer technologies and newer business models. The investments we have made in creating platforms, in leveraging SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) technologies to drive business transformation are really helping customers to run differently. So we’ve been able to address their dual mandate of ‘run better’ and ‘run different’ very effectively.”

On the company’s performance and strategy in Europe, Chandrasekaran says, “We continue to maintain that Europe is a long-term bet. We have a focused approach of taking a longer term view and that’s why we have announced acquisitions one after another. These are all part of our strategy to gradually expand our presence and create the local presence that we need to be successful in Continental Europe. We’re seeing results already.”

According to Chandrasekaran, the deal pipeline is relative to the capabilities organizations have. “We feel good about the deal pipeline because of the investments we’ve made in terms of developing newer capabilities and also improving the existing capabilities,” he says. “Given our services mix and given our ability to bring synergy between them, we’re able to provide a unique value proposition to clients.”