Data can be considered to be one of the most valuable commodities in today’s world - more so than gold, oil and bitcoin. It underpins most business and performance operations; and the organizations that are able to maximize its use are the most successful.

There are many paths in which a person eventually becomes a software programmer and engineer. Some start at an early age with an interest in science, engineering, and software development. Others are drawn to it a bit later in their lives, through a serendipitous journey.

The answer lies in what you’re trying to achieve with intelligent automation. Automated processes enable efficiency, while data enhances decision-making says Chakradhar Agraharam, a VP in Cognizant’s Intelligent Process Automation Practice.

Health technology company Philips and IT services provider Cognizant are partnering to build customized applications for organizations in the health sector, the companies announced Thursday.

Cognizant on Wednesday announced plans to donate tablets and laptops worth Rs 6.7 crore to students and teachers of government schools across six states in the country, as part of the companys employee-led volunteering programme.

Automation is now table stakes and accelerated automation with intelligence is the new mantra post-pandemic.

On Soul of Business, the nonprofit sector has been struggling to keep up with the push in digitalisation since Covid-19 hit our shores. Claressa Monteiro speaks with Andrew Lim, Vice President, ASEAN and Greater China at Cognizant and Pratibha Kurnool, Outreach Lead APAC, Strategic Technology Partnerships Lead for Social Impact at Cognizant to find out more about their unique challenges and how they helped a local charity navigate these challenges.

Carriers are building a digital arsenal to combat the risks created by Black Swan events and stay ahead of customer demands in today’s hypercompetitive world reveals Chris Blatchly, Chief Digital Officer and Consulting Leader for Insurance at Cognizant.

Tech giant Cognizant India joined hands with the government to fight the anticipated third wave of COVID, which is said to endanger the lives of children by helping establish an expanded pediatric ICU of 100 beds.

From drone delivery to underground pipe delivery, the future of delivery could look very different in the coming years.

Along with cloud and Agile development, low code may be the missing piece in businesses’ renewed urgency to accelerate their modernization efforts, contends Rich McGhee, Global Technology Lead within Cognizant’s Digital Engineering Practice.

Brian Williams, chief digital officer, life sciences, at Cognizant, explores how the pandemic has brought about change in adoption in digital technologies, and its lasting effect on life sciences.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, commercial real estate owners and operators were using technologies, including cellular, IoT and AI, to offer tenants new, connected amenities in an effort to drive up net operating income (NOI) while attracting and retaining lessees.

Today’s interview is with Ben Pring, who is the head of thought leadership at Cognizant, co-founded and leads Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, and is a member of Cognizant’s Executive Leadership Team.

Toll collecting isn’t quite what it used to be. Gone are the days where you would throw change into a bucket. Now everything is digital and those who collect tolls face new challenges.

Sustainable business practices are not just a moral imperative but also make excellent business sense. Our recent research highlights ways to monetize emerging tech tools that make business “greener” and more prosperous, says Ben Pring, chief futurist from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work.

The pandemic has brought renewed focus on the topic of sustainability. While the COVID-19 lockdowns resulted in a steep dip in greenhouse gas emissions, 2020 was still considered the worst year for climate-related disasters, with record-breaking temperatures around the globe, months of disastrous wildfires that engulfed most of California and Australia, and a record hurricane season in the Caribbean.

The beauty industry, as with most retail businesses, was forced to rethink their pre-COVID-19 approach and reimagine customer engagement in an entirely new context during the pandemic that will set the tone for the shopping experience for years to come.

Realizing the true promise of the information that flows across the healthcare and life sciences continuum requires a new understanding of data management, analytics and decision-making — which a holistic approach to device connectivity can deliver, says Brian Williams, Chief Digital Officer from Cognizant Life Sciences.

To mark International Women in Engineering Day 2021, several senior tech execs discuss how the pandemic has impacted gender diversity in the industry.

Have you ever gotten home from the grocery store, unloaded all the bags and then looked around and said — what am I going to cook for dinner? That’s how we increasingly see the state of data in businesses today.

From clinical applications to business functions, AI and machine learning have many roles to play – and healthcare providers increasingly are making use of them.

Digital has made our lives more connected than ever but can’t be allowed to evolve unsupervised, says Cognizant CEO Brian Humphries in his review of a new book penned by two Cognizant futurists on technology’s influence on our mental, social and economic wellbeing.

Acquisitions are a key part of Cognizant’s corporate strategy, and while we were fortunate that IT services continued to boom over the last 18 months, the demand presented us with a dilemma: How do you buy companies remotely?

Cognizant Foundation, the CSR arm of the IT services major, on Thursday said it has set up a 100-bed COVID care facility in Pune.