Cognizant inks 5 year multi million dollar outsourcing deal with Future Group

Future Group Selects Cognizant for End-to-End IT Infrastructure Services Support to Sustain High Velocity Growth and Drive Business Transformation

Cognizant, one of the leading provider of IT, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, announced that it has entered into a five-year, multimillion dollar engagement with Future Group, India’s largest multi-format retail group. As a part of the deal Cognizant would provide end-to-end IT infrastructure services for all Future Group companies.

Under the managed services agreement, Cognizant will support more than 1,000 Future Group stores—including marquee names such as Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar, Central, Home Town, and eZone—across 85 towns and cities in India, and the new stores the Company opens in the future. Besides providing service desk support, data center management, and network services support, Cognizant will also deliver the mission-critical, last-mile IT infrastructure services support to Future Group’s ever growing network of stores, warehouses, offices, and data centers.

Cognizant’s IT Infrastructure Services (IT IS) practice offers a comprehensive portfolio of managed services and consulting offerings that span enterprise computing, end-user computing, infrastructure security, network and convergence services, mobility, and application performance management.

Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 50 delivery centers worldwide and approximately 137,700 employees as of December 31, 2011, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

Source: Press Release

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