COGNIZANT
“ Every enterprise is striving to become a data-driven organisation that makes better and faster decisions ”
PRAMOD MURALIDHARAN PRACTICE HEAD - GLOBAL GROWTH MARKETS - DATA MODERNISATION PRE-SALES , SOLUTION & OFFERING DEVELOPMENT , COGNIZANT
and failure of the investment in a data initiative . Technology & Modern Decision platform alone cannot solve all business problems . Data Culture and Talent are critical cogs in driving outcomes ,” says Muralidharan .
Of course , solving business problems is also the preserve of Cognizant , Microsoft and Informatica , and the three come together to offer customers a holistic solution . “ I call the Cognizant , Informatica , Microsoft partnership a golden triangle , which helps solve data democratisation initiatives and partners with our customers for the entire journey and beyond ,” says Muralidharan .
“ In terms of Cognizant , Informatica and Microsoft , we are able to cover end-to-end the data ecosystem to successfully orchestrate modern decisions .” Microsoft ’ s Messaoud emphasises the importance of its partner ecosystem to unlocking value for its customers . “ We bring trusted expertise to the table , but it ' s actually our partners that understand the customer ’ s business needs and can address the challenges that customers have that can be sold with technologies coming from us and also from the broad ecosystem longstanding relationships that we have , for example , with Informatica and Cognizant .”
Taken together , the expertise of the three companies can allow CxOs to respond to pressure for modernisation stemming from boards , as Markese explains . “ Sometimes they ' ll come to us and ask us , ‘ What should be our data modernisation strategy ?’ And we say , ‘ We ' ll give you the platform and the tools , but you have to go to Cognizant to identify your business outcomes , develop your strategy , implement quickly while future protecting your technology decisions and continue to unlock business value and innovation along the way .’ And then they ' ll ask , ‘ Well , what cloud platform should I be on ? How do I put in the infrastructure ?’ And for that we tell them to go to Microsoft . When you put all that in place with our intelligent data management cloud platform , the pieces coming from those two other trusted partners all fall into place .” technologymagazine . com 329