Cognizant Application Implementation Services

The consultants that were assigned to the project were familiar with what we were trying to do. This made the blueprinting alot smoother and realization alot cleaner.

Cognizant has an excellent functional and technical skills compare to other implementation partners. At the same time, they have a room to improve their project and program management skills. The SAP EU rollout was very challenging and Mylan has failed thrice over the past 10 years but cognizant completed this project without any delay in 18 months across 25 countries in 3 continents. Their dedication and support is commendable and they ran this project like a factory by fielding consultants 24X7 globally and by adapting agile methodology to resolve issues in less than 48 hrs. by collaborating with business and Mylan IT.

Three attributes of Cognizant helped us greatly in this transformation – (i) Understanding the landscape of consumer goods sector, (ii) Design thinking led approach, (iii) Leadership commitment during challenges in transformation. Cognizant demonstrated deeper understanding of S4 HANA solution and how Consumer goods business processes can be mapped in S4 HANA. Their demonstration of S4 HANA, knowledge of consumer goods best practices combined with strong collaborative approach made them a first-choice partner for the program. They leveraged their understanding of the consumer goods industry to challenge our business requirements. They used the sector knowledge well to help us drive business synergies and maximize our business impact. Their domain specific implementation knowledge of HANA helped us in going with standard processes rather than customizing too many areas. Cognizant figured early on about FCL’s inclination towards design thinking principles. They were quick to adopt similar approach for the HANA implementation. Design thinking approach to arrive at program guiding principles and key KPIs helped to lay strong foundation. A design thinking workshop during the initiation phase helped us identify the larger principles that this program will adopt, which helped the team for taking critical decisions. Cognizant leadership team also gave immense support, often beyond the written contract for making this transformation work. Cognizant has shown commitment toward the success of our initiative by investing deeply into our vision and by providing us help and support beyond the business solution. The team was always there whenever we had our internal challenges and were able to offer us workable solutions.

Cognizant delivers a good quality of service, both on site and offshore. They have shown true commitment and partnership over the last 5 years. Offshore application maintenance is organized by Cognizant in an efficient and robust manner. Over the last couple of years Cognizant has shown its flexibility in working with our company in transforming into a devops IT organization that alsow affected the off shore application managment team. SAP Banking is a niche in which it is difficult to get skilled and experienced specialists. Cognizant works hard to build and retain this expertise.

Cognizant has overall been very capable in leading the design and implementation of a green fields SAP S/4 landscape in Azure. Cognizant has provided an experienced and efficient project team which is able to lead design work, provide recommendations and follow through with capable implementation work. They have leveraged their partnership with Microsoft to engage senior engineering and product development staff to advise on design and implementation work and increase client's confidence in the solution.