Cognizant, dienstverlener in IT-consultancy en Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), heeft bijna alle onderdelen van Pepperweed Advisors overgenomen. Advisors is de IT-consultancy divisie van Pepperweed Consulting. Zij zetten de beste en bewezen procesmodellen en software in om op te treden als betrouwbare adviseur voor IT-marktleiders. Pepperweed Advisors voorziet deze organisaties van neutraal advies om IT en zakelijke processen te optimaliseren.
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Cognizant Acquires Pepperweed Advisors; Deepens Business Consulting Capability in IT Infrastructure Services
Clients to Benefit From More Complete Consulting Offering in IT Service Management and Asset Management
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, has announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Pepperweed Advisors, the IT consulting services division of Pepperweed Consulting. Pepperweed Advisors uses its proprietary best practice process models and software to act as a trusted advisor to IT leaders requiring vendor-neutral advice regarding optimal alignment of IT and business process flows. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition brings to Cognizant’s IT Infrastructure Services (IT IS) practice a strategic consulting capability in two areas – IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Asset Management (ITAM) – along with seasoned consulting talent and significant intellectual property, including well defined ITIL-based processes, tools, and frameworks. Cognizant clients will benefit from a complete and mature IT infrastructure process consulting offering that complements Cognizant’s Operations Maturity Model.
“We welcome Pepperweed Advisors to the Cognizant fold as we strengthen our Cognizant Business Consulting offerings,” said Francisco D’Souza, President and CEO, Cognizant. “Our consulting breadth and depth have been a significant differentiator for our growing IT IS practice. Pepperweed helps to round out our IT IS consulting portfolio while enhancing our ability to serve as trusted advisors to our clients.”
The ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), an internationally recognized standard, defines IT Service Management as the delivery and support of IT services that are appropriate to the business requirements of an organization. ITSM helps transform the IT organization from a support group to a service group in which ITIL processes and best practices are introduced.
“Process improvement is a top priority for IT infrastructure and operations leaders in 2009. Pepperweed Advisors brings us intellectual property, IT process models, and detailed delivery kits that deepen our domain expertise and enable hands-on implementation of ITSM for our clients, leveraging our ITIL-based global service delivery framework,” said Robert Boles, Vice President, IT IS, at Cognizant. “Pepperweed Advisors’ mature, experienced consultants will lead our transformational process efforts with both our consulting and managed services client engagements.”
Pepperweed Advisors has developed substantial intellectual property and IT process models, including the Pepperweed Process Model, an “ERP for IT” reference model containing more than 20 processes, which has been downloaded by more than 2,000 IT professionals in 80 countries. In addition, Pepperweed has created PathFinder 2.0, a process-to-technology enablement software system that provides clients access to, and ongoing management of, their IT process and best practices content in a full-featured, easy-to-use Web application.
In an independent April 2009 report by Forrester Research, Inc., “The Forrester Wave™: Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2009,” Cognizant was named a leader.
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Over Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is een vooraanstaande dienstverlener op het gebied van IT, technologie, consultancy en Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Cognizant werkt samen met klanten om hun business sterker te maken. Zij doen dit met hun wereldwijde kennis van technologie, innovatie en de industrie. Met meer dan 50 locaties wereldwijd en ruim 64.000 medewerkers (30 juni, 2009) combineert de organisatie een uniek onsite/offshore leveringsmodel met een cultuur gericht op klanttevredenheid. Cognizant is genoteerd op de NASDAQ-100 Index en de S&P 500 Index. Verder is Cognizant een Forbes Global 2000-organisatie en wordt genoemd als top IT-organisatie in BusinessWeek’s Hot Growth en Top 50 Performers. Meer informatie:
www.cognizant.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
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