Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, today announced it has been selected as a strategic partner by INTTRA, a leading provider of e-commerce solutions for the ocean freight industry, to streamline INTTRA’s applications and quality assurance portfolios. As part of the multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement, Cognizant will provide a range of application development, application maintenance, testing, and quality assurance services using the managed services model.
With the market demand for multi-carrier e-commerce reaching an all-time high in 2011, INTTRA reported a record-breaking 22 million container orders initiated through its e-commerce portal last year. By streamlining and standardizing the e-commerce applications, Cognizant will help INTTRA and its clients harness the benefits of operational efficiencies throughout the supply chain, improve data accuracy and business insights, enhance collaboration, and provide a uniform experience across multiple trading partners.
“The global ocean shipping industry is going through significant structural changes. Our goal is to provide the best and most useful products to our customers to help them streamline the processing of ocean freight, and optimize global ocean supply chains,” said Ivan Latanision, Senior Vice President of Product Management at INTTRA. “In Cognizant, we found a strategic partner with the breadth of expertise and global footprint that would help us create products that willmake a difference to our customers’ process efficiencies and positively impact their bottom lines. Specifically, we were impressed with their domain knowledge, process methodologies, the managed services model, and their roadmap to help us in our transformational journey to becoming a global informationprovider.”
“Cognizant is committed to optimizing and strengthening INTTRA’s product development processes to improve efficiency, flexibility, and speed,” said Tarun Anand, Vice President of the Information, Media, and Entertainment practice at Cognizant. “We will leverage our broad technology expertise and global delivery footprint to help INTTRA define new standards and benchmarks in data supply chain transformation and information services for the ocean shipping industry.”
About INTTRA
INTTRA is a leading global provider of e-commerce solutions to the ocean freight industry. INTTRA professionals work with over 30 leading carriers and NVOCCs, as well as their customers, to streamline and standardize their shipping processes worldwidethrough a network of more than 30,000 corporate locations. Over 450,000 container orders are initiated on the INTTRA platform each week, representing more than 15 percent of global ocean container trade.
Over Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is een vooraanstaande dienstverlener in IT-consultancy, technologie en Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Cognizant werkt samen met klanten om hun bedrijfspositie sterker te maken. Het hoofdkantoor is gevestigd in Teaneck, New Jersey (VS). Cognizant combineert een passie voor klanttevredenheid, technologische innovatie en expertise in de markt en zakelijke processen. De organisatie heeft meer dan 50 locaties wereldwijd en zo’n 130.000 medewerkers per 30 september 2011. Cognizant is opgenomen in de NASDAQ-100 en de S&P 500. Verder is Cognizant een Forbes Global 2000-organisatie, lid van de Fortune 500 en wordt het bedrijf genoemd als een van de beste en snelst groeiende bedrijven ter wereld. Bezoek ons online op
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Forward-Looking Statements
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