As women bridge the diversity gap in the technology industry, female executives like Cognizant’s Mariesa Coughanour, have advanced their careers to prominent positions in our profession, and it’s worth taking note.

Humphries is focusing on growing the international market for the company.

IT firm Cognizant on Thursday said it will cover the vaccination cost for over six lakh people in India, including its own two lakh employees and their families as well as contract and support staff.

Cognizant said that it will cover the cost of over 600,000 people in India, including its 200,000 full-time employees and their dependents and around 50,000 people, comprising contingent staff such as contract, support and security personnel, and their families.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. has extended the coverage of COVID vaccination cost for all its employees in India, including its contract, support staff, and security personnel.

While becoming a female CEO of a technology giant in A/NZ ranks as a professional milestone, Jane Livesey’s journey is much more than that.

The fourth industrial revolution has shifted our world into a new digital era and the pandemic has accelerated this from a movement to an immediate necessity.

IT major Cognizant is rewarding top performers over and above the bonus amount. The company will shell out up to 125% of the target bonuses – a significant increase from the comparable performance-linked bonus paid at around 95% in the previous year.

The report said the Asia Pacific and the Middle East companies are at least as bullish on AI and analytics as their global counterparts are, if not slightly more so.

IoT’s true potential lies in integrating IoT data with the company’s present processes and data streams to provide steady monitoring and improvement opportunities.

With the rise of new machines, new generations of talent and new business models based on insight and intelligence, the rules of global competition had already started to change. Now, these tectonic shifts are being further catalyzed and accelerated by the global pandemic.

There has long been a paradox at the heart of the financial sector – customer loyalty remains high despite overall trust in the banking system being very low.

The government first-grade colleges in Karnataka will be provided with 12,500 debonded desktop computers as part of the Help Educate.

Retail Insight Network spoke with Cognizant head of products and resources Rohit Gupta to find out how the demise of these large retail empires will affect the rest of the retail industry and what lessons can be learned.

Professional services company Cognizant announced today a series of new corporate social responsibility initiatives, including a commitment of $250 million towards efforts to advance economic mobility, educational opportunity, diversity and inclusion, and health and well-being in communities around the world.

Beginning in 2021, Cognizant said that it would expand grant-making in the US and India to new global markets where the company is growing its operations, including Australia, Canada, Germany, and the UK.

As a retention strategy, Cognizant has enhanced its leave policy by increasing the number of annual paid leaves and the company will provide an option for employees to work from home or office, or choose a combination of the two, subject to client approvals and security clearances.

By continually assuring the currency, accuracy, and relevancy of business-critical data and analytics models, organisations can better anticipate and solve whatever market and environmental challenges they may encounter. However, perishable data and analytics models make it much harder to predict and respond to unexpected events.

Negative news about the new post-Brexit challenges for the UK’s financial services currently dominates headlines. The market structure is still far from settled ahead of upcoming talks between the UK and the EU on equivalence.

Cognizant has stepped up its hiring efforts for both freshers and lateral hires in the country and expect the number of new recruits in the March quarter to be “more than ever,” Cognizant India Chairman and managing Director Rajesh Nambiar said.

Cognizant India hired more than 17,000 fresh graduates from campuses in 2020 and expects to hire over 23,000 fresh graduates in 2021—indicating a 35% increase year-on-year.

The insurance industry is on the cusp of having its entire lifecycle reimagined as the shift to digital accelerates. From product development and underwriting, customer engagement and self-service, to claims and fraud detection, digital transformation is impacting every step in the insurance value chain.

The B2B2C, or business-to-business-to-consumer, model has seen a huge jump in demand after the COVID-19 outbreak disrupted operations of businesses globally.

“We anticipate a significant revenue acceleration in 2021 following our midteens bookings growth this year. Right now, we are 100% focused on recruiting talent,” says Cognizat’s Rajesh Nambiar.

“Looking to the longer term, we may see a shift in commercial insurance towards a greater appetite for self-insurance, with re-insurance type contracts, as businesses use IoT to manage their own risks better,” says Cognizant’s David Sexton.