Cognizant, SAP AG tie up

NASDAQ-listed IT service provider Cognizant Technology Solutions has tied up with SAP AG for a global services partnership to deliver increased business value to customers by streamlining their engagement. Similarly, the IT service provider has signed a partnership with Temenos, a Swiss banking software company, to enhance service and delivery capabilities for Temenos.

The Cognizant SAP Touchstone Center, set up in 2008 at Cognizant’s facility in Bangalore, is already working in coordination with SAP Co-Innovation Labs worldwide as the hub of development and innovation at Cognizant in support of SAP solutions, stated a Cognizant release.

The Touchstone Center and SAP Co-Innovation Labs help deliver value-added SAP solutions across industries and domains, develop prototypes for various customer scenarios and proof of concepts, perform interoperability studies, and leverage service-oriented architecture (SoA). With this new alliance, Cognizant and SAP plan to expand their global reach, the release added.

Cognizant, with this agreement, joins a select group of companies that are part of the SAP global services partnership programme.

Cognizant has also signed a partnership with Temenos which specialise in banking software development. Cognizant and Temenos will work together on projects, but the latter will maintain the content and IP, according to Temenos statement.