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Follow UsBANGALORE, INDIA: Cognizant, a provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services, today announced a joint development program with Microsoft to deliver cloud enabled solutions to enterprise customers.
As part of this program, Cognizant has set up a state-of-the-art “Octane Solution Center” to accelerate development of cloud-enabled next-generation solutions that integrate Cognizant business services and Microsoft technologies.
The Octane Solution Center extends Cognizant’s long-term partnership with Microsoft and would facilitate collaboration between customers and senior business technology specialists, solution architects, security experts, and change management professionals.
Enterprise decision makers will be able to discover, envision, prototype, and evaluate innovative cloud-enabled solutions to their business problems. Cognizant’s industry-aligned Octane solutions will ultimately deliver disruptive levels of value by combining a full range of Cognizant services–including consulting, solution accelerators, and technology management–and Microsoft cloud-enabling technologies such as Azure, said a press release
Inaugurating the Center in Bangalore, S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, said, “Enterprises seeking to adopt cloud technologies are looking for trusted advisors to help them address their concerns and show them how organizations can realize the potential of applying cloud technologies.”
“Cognizant, with its proven expertise on Microsoft technologies, deep domain knowledge, and innovative solutions, is well placed to provide advice and lead customers toward profiting from Microsoft cloud services,” he added.
Cognizant is a key Microsoft global service integrator and has dedicated Microsoft centers of excellence built to design and implement business technology solutions that employ a broad portfolio of Microsoft technologies, the release said.
The jointly funded Octane Solution Center expands the long-standing alliance to focus on creating next-generation solutions that enable new thresholds of business performance by leveraging cloud delivery models and technologies.
“Cognizant is committed to helping customers create optimized levels of business performance for the new virtualized organization, and delivering services that enable them to increase business effectiveness, efficiency, innovation, and virtualization,” said R Chandrasekaran, president and managing director of Global Delivery at Cognizant.
He further said that this strategic program would enable their customers to realize the full potential of Microsoft Cloud technologies and redefine the way they deliver value to their customers.