InformationWeek: Cognizant Named to the InformationWeek 500 List of Top Technology Innovators Across the U.S. for the Third Consecutive Year

Cognizant has yet again been recognized by InformationWeek as one of the top technology innovators in the U.S. Cognizant not only made this year’s InformationWeek 500, but also ranked in the top 250. This is the third year in a row that the company has been named to the prestigious list.

Cognizant received the recognition for Cognizant Enterprise Analytical App Engine (CEAAE), developed by Cognizant CIO’s team. Called OneCAAP (One Cognizant Analytical Application Platform) within Cognizant, it is a centralized analytics and business intelligence platform used by Cognizant employees worldwide, and is among the world’s largest enterprise-class Business Intelligence platforms with the lowest per-user cost. By offering a complete set of analytical capabilities, CEAAE has enabled comprehensive democratization of information assets across Cognizant and transformed how the company’s employees work.

To achieve this, Cognizant brought together information spread across multiple application silos and proprietary vendor databases throughout the company and made analytics creation a technology-agnostic and speedy process, bringing down the time to respond to information requests from months to days. The company used commercial open-source and low-cost technologies in addition to custom-built software, a combination that helped it keep the per-user cost extremely low, while allowing for massive scaling up of the platform to meet its growing needs.

“The theme of this year’s InformationWeek 500 is digital business. It’s a movement, rooted in data analytics, mobile computing, social networking and other customer‐focused technologies that are turning companies and industries on their ear,” said InformationWeek Editor In Chief Rob Preston. “Every enterprise is now a digital business — or needs to become one fast. The organizations in our ranking are leading the way.”

InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation’s most innovative users of information technology with its annual InformationWeek 500 listing, and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments, and administrative practices of some of the best‐known organizations in the country. Unique among corporate rankings, the InformationWeek 500 spotlights the power of innovation in information technology.