SAP and Cognizant deepen ties

ORLANDO: Cognizant and  SAP have signed a global services partnership to deliver increased business value to customers by streamlining their engagement and enabling both companies to respond quickly to the ever-changing needs of their customers, says a press release.

The two companies have been working together to and the Cognizant SAP Touchstone Center, set up in 2008 at Cognizant’s facility in Bangalore, India, is already working in coordination with SAP Co-Innovation Labs worldwide as the hub of development and innovation at Cognizant in support of SAP solutions.

This Center and SAP Co-Innovation Labs, as the release adds, help to deliver value-added SAP solutions across industries and domains, develop prototypes for various customer scenarios and proof of concepts, perform interoperability studies, and leverage service-oriented architecture (SOA), for enterprise applications. Through this extended relationship, Cognizant and SAP plan to expand their global reach.

“Cognizant has consistently demonstrated close alignment with SAP, and its elevation to a global services partner marks a significant milestone in our relationship,” said Zia Yusuf, Executive Vice President, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP AG.

“This expanded partnership is a testament to our collaborative relationship and an important part of our strategy to expand our ecosystem to drive continued customer success.”