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Being Cognizant means we see the current market cycle and lead our clients to new, more productive business models.

Facing environmental and regulatory challenges, energy and utilities companies must improve financial performance, enhance customer satisfaction and rethink service delivery. It requires new technologies and processes — from metering and monitoring, through billing and customer care — to improve efficiency and boost business performance.

Why Cognizant?

Cognizant serves energy and utilities companies with a wide array of strategic consulting and business process Services solutions, supported by proven IT frameworks and accelerators. Five of the Top 10 global utilities companies trust us to strengthen their businesses with solutions for plant automation and supply chain optimization, as well as retail, billing and customer care.

Services & Solutions We Offer

Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence Extract business intelligence from a sea of data, to drive more informed decision-making.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Reduce your operating costs, improve day-to-day management of operations and support your strategic planning.

CRAFT
Our automation framework for regression testing of CIS applications helps you significantly reduce test change necessitated by markets, customers and regulations.

Enterprise Asset Management
Our solution helps utilities optimize asset performance and improve service levels.

iTrak™
This data display dashboard provides insights to more effectively manage your revenue protection and energy balance needs.

Enterprise Application Integration Count on us to show you how to seamlessly connect people, systems and technology.

Supply Chain Management We’ll help you build an extended supply chain that’s agile, adaptive and aligned with your business objectives.

ProgSoft
This web-based program management framework enables energy and utility companies to roll out and maintain energy efficiency programs more quickly and easily.

Geospatial
This solution uses global positioning technology to locate your assets and resources.

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Insights

Thinking you can use to build a stronger business.

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Building a Thriving and Extended Utilities Value Chain
To transform from commodity power suppliers to innovative service providers, utilities must lead an emerging ecosystem that facilitates revenue decoupling, renewable energy and energy efficiency portfolio standards.
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Social Media for Utilities: Developing a Satisfying Customer Experience
By creating a dynamic and responsive social media presence, utilities can enhance customer interaction and influence key decisions, turning dissatisfied consumers into advocates.
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Home Area Networks: A Preferred Choice for Energy Efficiency
The day is here when home area networks (HANs) contribute to energy efficiency for utilities and home users; the way forward will be driven by automated demand response (ADR), automated demand side management (DSM), dynamic pricing, and electric vehicle (EV) charging among other key factors.
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Build a Modern Social Enterprise to Win in the 21st Century
To prepare for the future of work, businesses need to apply social, mobile, cloud and analytic technologies to reform and realign work processes with emerging digital value chains.
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Field Workforce Planning Automation for the UK Residential Services Industry
Numerous variables in the UK home services market mean that companies must master labour utilisation and optimisation strategies. British Gas, Home Serve and other key players must deploy their field workforce carefully to profitably cover insurance and emergency repair needs, and here we offer a detailed conceptual framework to accomplish this.
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How to Generate Greater Value from Smart Meter Data
By managing and analyzing smart meter event data, utilities can improve customer experience, grid reliability, operational efficiency and revenue assurance.

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An Enterprise Land Management Application Gets a Needed Platform Update
Cognizant partnered with a major provider of oil and gas exploration, development, management and production solutions to update its land management application with an n-tier platform, significantly improving its business value and ROI.
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Hydrocarbon Accounting Implementation Meets Complex Allocation Needs
Cognizant partnered with an oil and gas major to implement a hydrocarbon accounting solution to meet the company's complex production allocation needs.
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Improving Plant Reliability by Mobilizing Routine Operator Duties
Cognizant partnered with a large global energy organization to resolve its plant reliability issues by automating its operator routine duties.
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Integrating Commodity Pricing for a Global Integrated Energy Company
Cognizant partnered with an oil and gas major to implement an integrated pricing and proposal management system, enabling it to react to dynamic market situations.
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Knowledge Management for a Fortune 100 Oil and Gas Major
Cognizant partnered with a global oil and gas company to implement a cloud-based SharePoint 2010 knowledge management strategy, enabling it to be more responsive to evolving market dynamics.
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Oil and Gas Major Retires Mainframe After Upstream-Downstream Split
Cognizant partnered with an oil and gas major when it needed to retire its mainframe platform following its split into two separate upstream and downstream businesses.

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Becoming Information-Ready for the Economic Revival
Getting the most from your business-intelligence investment is key to staying competitive in the New Normal. See how.
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In Search of Supply Chain Excellence
Learn how to create supply chains that are more agile, adaptive and business-aligned.

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Our Approach

Enterprise Asset Maintenance Optimization
A solution for managing costs associated with enterprise asset maintenance, repair and replacement, based on SAP, OSIsoft, NetWeaver and RLINK.
Inside our Energy & Utilities practice.
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Two-in-a-Box
With our Two-in-a-Box™ (TiB) client engagement model, we embed senior personnel with demonstrated industry expertise within your IT organization who coordinate strategy with dedicated offsite delivery managers, freeing your team to concentrate on core business objectives.
Cognizant 2.0
By employing the Cognizant 2.0 platform, we can bring the best people, resources and capabilities of our global delivery system to any client, anywhere.

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