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Fulfill the Promise of True Digital

Manage consumer expectations, improve outcomes and streamline operations

ACHIEVE SPEED AND RELIABILITY

Digital transformation starts here. Tailor your Application Value Management strategy for different application needs and fuel change innovation by reducing your “run” spend.

In the pivot to digital, applications are the fulcrum, driving the transformational change that keeps businesses competitive. With the growing demands of your enterprise, the application landscape becomes heterogeneous. That leads to increased complexity and redundancy, slowing time to value and increasing cost of delivery. 

Providing you with an industrialized, holistic and integrated approach to address today’s IT requirements, Cognizant’s Application Value Management enables your organization to speed your digital journey, improve predictability, deliver business outcomes and minimize cost. 

To ensure that you consistently realize the unique value of Cognizant’s Application Value Management in your portfolio, we employ an AI-based platform called Cognizant Applens™. In short, it is your springboard to achieving a truly digital organization.

OFFERINGS

FULFILL THE PROMISE OF DIGITAL

Reimagining digital systems management is the key to thriving in today’s dynamic world of managing complex applications. This calls for a much deeper understanding of your enterprise’s application landscape. 

Cognizant’s Application Value Management strategy responds to this shift by categorizing applications into Consumer Engagement, Business Differentiation and Systems of Record. Tailoring management strategy to these application types can deliver the greatest return on investment.

  • DEBT MANAGEMENT

    ELIMINATE LEGACY DEBTS AND MAXIMIZE RESILIENCY

    Debts incurred in your application can increase maintenance spend. So it’s imperative to have a structured methodology to nip them in the bud. Cognizant’s Debt Management framework helps to:

    • Identify and eliminate your application debts
    • Increase resiliency 
    • Improve time to value
    • Reduce operating expenses by up to 40%


    Debts are further classified as avoidable, unavoidable and residual, and corresponding remediation actions are defined, prioritized and implemented.

     

  • COGNIZANT® AUTOMATION CENTER

    AI-DRIVEN PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS AND COGNITIVE AUTOMATION

    Cognizant’s platform-centric approach is driven by Cognizant® Automation Center, an integrated portfolio of services, platforms and solutions that delivers the collective power of automation across business and IT operations and application engineering.

    The platform features domain-led solutions, home-grown assets and accelerators, and best-of-breed products. They combine to enhance scalability, coordination and advanced automation on a single platform.

    The platform brings together a vendor-agnostic approach that provides repeatable and scalable solutions ranging from robotic process automation to machine learning and conversational AI.

     

    Some differentiating aspects of our offering include:

    • Modular, federated, open architecture platform that easily connects and adapts to existing client system landscape
    • Easy entry/exit; no platform lock-in
    • AI-powered Virtual Assistants for end users, SMEs and support engineers
    • Reusable BOT suite in plug-and-play mode
  • COGNIZANT AVMPLUS®

    INDUSTRIALIZE SERVICE AND PORTFOLIO MATURITY

    Cognizant AVMplus® accelerates your journey toward managed services, enabling you to continually progress toward an outcome-based metrics measurement model.

    Cognizant AVMplus® industrializes your application management best practices by creating a reference services framework for every engagement. Its suite of frameworks spans the entire engagement lifecycle, including Solution Design, Transition, Steady State and Transformation.

  • SMART OPS

    SYNERGIZE SERVICE LINES AND WORK SILOS

    Cognizant Smart Ops is a transformative model that promotes predictable, intelligent operations by leveraging cross-functional synergies across Application, Infrastructure and Security services.

    Powered by Cognizant® Automation Center, Smart Ops offers a comprehensive portfolio of integrated operations to deliver always-on, unified and business aligned IT operations. This integrated, platform-led approach helps you achieve proactive monitoring, faster resolution, robust governance, ease of deployment and improved business outcomes.

    By deploying integrated tools, ML-based auto debt detection, full-stack analysis and a service analytics-driven approach, the Smart Ops solution can reduce operational inefficiencies, improve business agility, and deliver cost savings of up to 45%.

  • TRANSFORMATION MODEL

    REDUCE TCO AND IMPROVE BUSINESS OUTCOMES

    Cognizant’s transformation model can redefine your entire application landscape for business value. It covers five key areas:

    • Application Portfolio Rationalization – Eliminate redundant investments with minimal business involvement. Cognizant’s Contain-Maintain-Invest strategy helps categorize applications based on business relevance.
    • Technology Refresh – Reduce technical debts by identifying and eliminating structured debt and keeping applications modern and up to date. 
    • Cloud Enablement – Assess Cloud fitment and viability, and develop a concerted, application-driven cloud migration strategy. Learn more
    • Business Outcomes-based Delivery – Bridge the gap between IT and business using Cognizant’s Business Value Management framework. This comprehensive blueprint takes a holistic view of Applications, Infrastructure and Business process services and helps re-calibrate key performance measures to achieve your business objectives.
    • Digital Readiness – Improve your IT operations at speed and scale. Our structured approach helps you define your digital transformation roadmap and navigate the shift to digital.
  • COGNIZANT APPLENS™

    PLATFORM-DRIVEN APPLICATION STRATEGY

    Cognizant AppLens™ is an AI-based platform that drives your application strategy end-to-end. By using intelligent, data-driven and context-based solutions to increase the lifespan and yield of your applications, AppLens™ becomes your “single source of truth.” It can help you build a cohesive delivery ecosystem that synthesizes all your assets, tools and value creators—and bends your IT operating expense curve.

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Up to 45%


cost savings utilizing Cognizant’s Smart Ops solution

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Up to 40%

reduction in operating expenses using Cognizant’s Debt Management framework 

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Cognizant SimpliFIT®—Bending the IT OpEx Cost Curve

As the competition continues to intensify, it becomes imperative for every organization to look for ways to reduce their OpEx across their App-infra landscape and fund their transformation initiatives to stay ahead of the curve.

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Maximize Reduction in “Run” Spend to Fuel “Change” Innovation

The art of successfully realizing the dual mandate of driving cost optimization while creating a self-funded transformation model, ensuring the promise of true digital.

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What Can You Learn From App Portfolio Analytics? A Lot

CAST Highlight provides an objective view of application portfolio that measures the software health, risks, complexity and the cost associated with it. To know more, read the report.

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Cognizant’s Application Portfolio Rationalization

Make your applications "Fit for Use" and "Fit for purpose" by simplifying the application landscape and improving business agility.

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