Cognizant has announced that it has agreed to acquire TQS Integration, a privately owned global industrial data and intelligence company based in Lismore, Ireland.

The cloud may be a dominant presence across most sectors and businesses, manufacturing has been more hesitant.

Your unique heart rhythm may one day be used to make shopping, office visits, even just a stroll down the street a bit more personal, notes Clay Griffith, a Director of Product Marketing at Cognizant Softvision.

Postings for digitally enabled jobs of the future are recovering from a sharp dip during the pandemic, but they still lag behind postings for conventional jobs as companies desperately try to rebuild their workforces.

Technology has been vital in enabling remote or online learning during the COVID-19 lockdowns and has rapidly accelerated a trend towards hybrid learning that was already in motion pre-pandemic.

Earlier this year, the multibillion-dollar business consulting and IT giant Cognizant joined XPRIZE to launch the Pandemic Response Challenge, a competition to create AI systems that can help societies reopen safely in the wake of COVID-19.

The remote work directives that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic reveal that virtual work is no longer a utopian ideal, declares Ben Pring, Cognizant’s Chief Futurist. It’s real and here to stay. To assist in the transition, we present recommendations that help everyone succeed in this new normal.

Cognizant has agreed to acquire TQS Integration, an industrial data and intelligence company based in Lismore, Ireland.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has been a hot topic in manufacturing circles for some time. We’ve explored many of its facets: what the future of work will look like, how we can harness new technologies and why innovative solutions can help companies come out ahead. However, rarely do we consider where this flurry of activity will occur.

Ensuring that young people have the necessary skills to help businesses is crucial. However, those needs are constantly changing as society changes.

To better understand and serve customers, organizations must not only tap more data, and more types of data from more sources; they also need to gather, analyze and act on this data far more quickly than ever before.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) employment levels rose by 356,000 between May and June. However, despite the largest increase in jobs since the start of the pandemic, the ONS said that there are still 206,000 fewer workers on the payroll since Covid.

Cognizant’s Craig Weber discussed how insurers can build their digital strategies and deploy AI as part of their business-wide digital transformation efforts.

Jump-started by the pandemic, healthcare providers’ digital agenda is finally falling into place, says Euan Davis, a futurist in Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work.

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.

By being openly gay in the workplace, and leading from a place of authenticity, I can more positively impact the teams I work with and the business itself, says Jan Siegmund, Cognizant’s CFO.

Paul Roehrig, Head of Strategy, Cognizant Digital Business & Technology, discusses the complexities of digital transformation – and also defines this oft-used word.

After more than a year of remote working, it's clear we can be productive without setting foot in the office.

Cognizant and Google Cloud will collaborate to deliver new industry solutions for key vertical markets.

The new group comes with joint goals, targets and investments with Google Cloud, according to Sanjiv Gossain, global head of Cognizant’s Google Cloud Business Group and the Teaneck, N.J.-based company’s head of artificial intelligence.

A recent study by Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work found that the world’s largest retailers show a renewed focus on combining the best of physical and online shopping to reignite sustained growth in the decades to come.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. has created a new, dedicated Google Business Group (GBG) to help accelerate their shared customers' cloud modernization journeys.

Leaders today are often balancing digital transformation, innovation, and employee needs. These expert insights can help.

From Sacramento to Songdo, from Dundee to your den, we’ve identified 21 places around the world where the future of work is being built right now, reveals Robert Brown, a futurist in Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work.

Admittedly, this work is hard. But to keep pushing for racial justice, there are three strategies for leaders to incorporate in 2021.

As enterprises around the world attempt to chart a course for the post-COVID environment, one thing is clear. Digital competency is the primary competency – for individuals and organizations – moving forward.