Cognizant

Cognizant started in 1994 as a technology unit of Dun & Bradstreet, took the Cognizant name in 1996 and was spun off and listed on Nasdaq in 1998. It is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, and is part of the S&P 500.

It provides consulting, software engineering and managed services: application development and modernisation, cloud, data and AI, digital engineering and business process services, with large practices in banking, insurance, healthcare and life sciences. Its TriZetto software, such as Facets and QNXT, runs many US health insurers, and its AI Lab builds the Neuro AI platform for multi-agent systems.

According to its results for the second quarter of 2026, Cognizant had 356,700 people. Most of them work in India, with Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Kolkata as the largest centres, and it runs delivery centres in the US, Europe (Romania, Poland, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania) and Latin America.