Cognizant sets up center in Argentina

CHENNAI, INDIA: Cognizant, a provider of global consulting, software, IT infrastructure and business process services, today announced the inauguration of its 35th global delivery center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The new center will support Cognizant’s North American customers in a similar time zone, leverage techno-functional and lingual capabilities available in the region to service global customers, and provide a base with local insights for Cognizant to service customers in South America.

The new facility has the capacity to accommodate approximately 250 professionals.

Cognizant’s Buenos Aires regional delivery will fully leverage the recently-launched Cognizant 2.0 platform.

This platform enables all of Cognizant’s global, regional and local development centers to virtually collaborate through one central platform using the Web 2.0 technologies and deliver significant time-to-market, cost and transformational value to clients.

During the inauguration Mauricio Macri, Head of Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Earl Anthony Wayne, Ambassador of the USA and Gloria Gangte, First Secretary of the Indian Embassy in Argentina took part.

“Our DNA of having a strong local relationship management with global sourcing capabilities will be strengthened by our new Argentina delivery center,” said Francisco D’Souza, president and CEO of Cognizant.

“Our investments in newer global, regional and local delivery centers will help our clients seamlessly harness optimal talent globally for providing differentiated value to their end customers,” he added.