Philips plugs in Cognizant

TEANECK, NEW JERSEY: Cognizant has been selected by Royal Philips Electronics as a strategic partner to drive a broad range of technology-enabled business transformation and growth programs.

Under the terms of the multiyear engagement, Cognizant will provide a comprehensive range of consulting and application services globally to help Philips consolidate, rationalize, and enhance its IT landscape for improved operational efficiency, business agility, and governance to deliver superior customer service. Cognizant’s engagement will enable Philips to transition the IT organization to a platform and output-based managed services model across multiple business lines and corporate functions, thereby enabling Philips to variablize its cost structure, drive structural savings, and free up resources to create higher value business capabilities, as per the press release. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

“Our relationship with Cognizant will allow us to leverage its extensive consulting, domain, and technology capabilities for the business transformation program that forms the cornerstone of our endeavor to drive agility, innovation, and competitiveness,” said Jeroen Tas, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Philips. “In implementing a paradigm shift in our IT delivery model, Cognizant will help create solutions that enable Philips to capitalize on business opportunities, and win in the marketplace. By optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of our value chain, we are confident of further strengthening the trusted Philips brand globally, and delivering ever greater innovation.”

“We are pleased to have been selected by Philips as a trusted partner,” said Santosh Thomas, Head of Continental Europe at Cognizant. “In an increasingly global and dynamic marketplace, agility holds the key to success, and Cognizant’s managed IT services model provides the agility that enables clients to spearhead strategic initiatives and create competitive advantage. We look forward to leveraging our robust understanding of the consumer goods industry, and our deep technology and consulting expertise to help Philips identify and capitalize on market trends, maximize business impact, and further strengthen its market leadership."