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Cloud Computing Center of Excellence

Cloud computing is central to the new and dynamic ways that enterprises deliver value. When properly implemented, cloud solutions offer easier access to IT services, enhanced scalability and flexible new pricing models. More importantly, they enable you to focus less on implementation and more on building a better business.

At Cognizant’s Cloud Computing Center of Excellence (CoE), our consultants can help you:

  • Drive transformational business change by harnessing the latest cloud technologies
  • Choose applications that will run efficiently, effectively and affordably in the cloud
  • Negotiate changes that are giving rise to clouds, such as the shift of capital expenses to operating expenses and the appeal of on-demand provisioning and pay-as-you-go cost models
  • Achieve short- and long-term goals and conduct cloud suitability assessments for your business processes and applications

Then, once you’re cloud-enabled, our Cloud CoE continues providing optimization services for your applications to reduce TCO and deliver ongoing business benefits.

You can focus less on implementation and more on building a better business

Figure 1 - By using cloud computing more effectively, you can focus less on implementation and more on building a better business.

 

A Platform-Agnostic Approach

By leveraging leading platforms such as Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, Force.com and private clouds, Cognizant’s Cloud CoE can deliver a broad portfolio of services, including:

  • Business Process as a Service (BPaaS)
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Meanwhile, our state-of-the-art Octane Solution Center (OSC) speeds development of cloud-enabled, next-generation solutions that integrate your business processes with leading Microsoft technologies, such as Azure and Silverlight. The OSC focuses on specific enterprise application pain points and helps you tackle them incrementally, securely and with minimal risk.

 

Our Services

To become quickly cloud-enabled, we provide you with strategy and best practices advisory services, business process managed services and cloud migration and enablement services, as well as the following specialized services:

  • Private Cloud Service—Implements private clouds using our private cloud orchestration framework
  • Batch Scaling Service—Scales traditional batch workloads using cloud and grid frameworks
  • Appliance Building Service—Builds operating appliances using preconfigured cloud templates for quick time-to-market
  • Cloud Data Mashup Service—Provides text and time series data collection, analysis and mashups using the cloud

 

Frameworks and Accelerators

Our Cloud CoE offers multiple frameworks and accelerators to quickly build scalable, business-ready cloud systems. Among them:

  • SaaS Architecture Framework—A blueprint for enterprises embarking on SaaS-enabling applications or building new SaaS platforms
  • Hybrid Cloud Platform and Framework—A platform solution to build your own private or hybrid cloud
  • Cloud Solutions and Accelerators—Reusable SaaS and PaaS frameworks and accelerators for quick time-to-market
  • Cloud Computing Lab—A high-end lab where you can build and test cloud applications
  • Cloud Benchmarking Services—Application baselining that paves the way for optimized cloud applications
  • Cloud Assessment Services—Review of enterprise applications for cloud suitability/portability and suggestions for migration roadmaps
  • Cloud Pricing Services—Compares pricing across cloud platform/providers, as part of RFI/RFP response and cloud architecture assessment
Frameworks and Accelerators

Figure 2 - Cognizant provides an impressive array of frameworks and accelerators for successful cloud computing.

 

Cases in Point

The proof of our effectiveness is in our clients’ results. Among them:

  • A global pharmaceutical giant realized 60 percent savings in the first year using clinical data management as a service.
  • A leading communications company’s cloud investment turned cash positive in less than a year. The company reaped data-center savings of 70 percent from the private cloud architecture we created for 2,000 virtual machines.
  • Faced with recurrent hardware failures and space constraints caused by increasing data feeds and application scalability, a news and information leader used our virtualized, cloud-based infrastructure to reduce capital expenditures and maintenance costs.

Find out how smart cloud computing can bring new and better business value to your company.

 

Our Approach

  • The Cognizant Difference

    It's in our DNA. Placing our clients first is embedded in the Cognizant culture. By investing in our people and resources, we bring new ideas and innovation to help you succeed in a changing business environment.

  • Two-in-a-Box

    We embed senior personnel with demonstrated industry expertise in your IT organization. They 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 bring the best people, resources and capabilities of our global delivery system to any client, anywhere.