Cognizant’s Communications Practice provides comprehensive information technology services to players across the industry landscape, including Communications Service Providers, Equipment Vendors and Independent Software Vendors.

Leveraging our thorough understanding of the role IT can play in improving operational efficiencies while supporting and extending new business models, we provide exemplary technology strategy and support, plus strategic planning, process design, implementation and operations & support. We have helped numerous communications industry leaders like AT&T and Verizon capitalize on new market opportunities by rethinking their IT strategies around the deployment of core network technologies and Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS).

Our Communications Practice includes hundreds of domain experts who stay abreast of the latest business trends and work collaboratively with our development teams to ensure our industry-focused solutions significantly impact our clients’ top and bottom lines. Complementing this business knowledge is the extensive experience offered by technology professionals who implement industry-focused solutions across a wide range of technology platforms.

Additionally, we actively leverage the cross-industry expertise of Cognizant’s horizontal technology practices – Testing, Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence, ERP, CRM, ASG and BPO - to deliver and support communications industry-specific solutions. Cognizant also has a dedicated Global Technology Office (GTO) that consistently refreshes our technical capabilities and supports key activities such as architectural decision-making and platform selection.

Our consultants actively participate in industry forums and alliances such as the TeleManagement Forum (TMF), European Communications Standards Institute (ETSI), and Telestrategies to contribute to the creation and adoption of industry standards