IT major Cognizant has kicked off a national Covid-19 vaccination drive to vaccinate more than 650,000 associates, their families and support teams.

Predictive maintenance, using IoT to anticipate and prevent breakdowns by collecting and analyzing machine data, has been gaining momentum in recent years. Based on its successes, some innovators are applying the same kind of thinking to entire manufacturing operations and are even aiming to tie in visibility on the supply and demand sides.

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) announced today it has been selected by Centrica, a leading international energy services and solutions company, as the sole technology services partner to manage and transform the SAP environment supporting its UK operations.

Cognizant has won a technology deal from Centrica, a leading energy services and solutions company, to manage the SAP deployment supporting its UK operations.

What is the future of software product engineering? And what will it take for businesses to be successful, as software plays a bigger and bigger role in all industries?