InfotechLead.com, a prominent IT news website targeting IT decisions makers and CIOs at enterprises, government, SMBs and start-ups, today announced InfotechLead Award 2017.
Cognizant, a leading technology outsourcing company based in the U.S., was selected as InfotechLead Award 2017 IT Services Company.
Cognizant achieved high single-digit growth in revenue without increasing manpower in 2017 as compared with 2016.
Cognizant, pushing to get maximum number of digital transformation deals, still relies on financial sectors and regions such as North America and Europe for large portion of its revenue. Cognizant revenue for 2017 increased to $14.81 billion, growing at 9.8 percent from $13.49 billion for 2016 with a net income of $1.50 billion.
Cognizant makes investment in its portfolio in areas such as digital strategy, management consulting, user experience and content creation as well as reskilling its talent in emerging technologies and developing pools of potential talent in key geographic regions.
Winners of InfotechLead Award 2017 were selected after individual consultation with the following jury members, who assembled at a major IT event in India end of last year.
# V Ananthanarayan, CIO of Sundaram Finance
# Rupinder Goel, CIO of Tata Communications
# Sanjeev Kumar, head of tech and security at Diageo
# Shijo Joseph, CIO of East West Seed
# GT Venkateshar Rao, IT department at Telengana Government
# Narendra Babu, DGM – IT at Ashok Leyland
Kizhakedath Media Services Pvt. Ltd., the publishers of InfotechLead.com, had received hundreds of nominations during the selection process.
“The jury members evaluated the winners based on the company’s contribution to the IT department, business outcome, their growth and the growth of their enterprise and individual clients,” Baburajan Kizhakedath, editor of InfotechLead.com, said.