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Cognizant Corporate Overview

Cognizant - A Passion for Building Stronger Businesses


Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a global provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services headquartered in Teaneck, N.J. Cognizant was founded in 1994 as an IT development and maintenance services arm of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. The company was spunoff as an independent organization two years later. Since 1996, Cognizant has worked closely with large organizations to help them build stronger, more efficient, and more agile businesses. Today, we are helping clients embrace powerful forcesincluding accelerating globalization, virtualWith app. 137,700 ization, a millennial mindset and associates and growing new cloud-based technologies Cognizant is a leading that are forcing companies to provider with the rethink traditional ways of working. We call it the Future of Work. has the geographic presence and mix of onsite and offshore resources to be the preferred global services partner across industry. Because clients see globalization as a key element to their success, our born global heritage is viewed as a significant market advantage.

Key Highlights

Unique blend of onsite/offshore resources of approximately 137,700 passionate professionals app. 104,000 passionate professionals Strong relationships with 785 active customers relationships with 712 active worldwide worldwide; 46 of Fortune 100 customers

Enhanced domain focus through subverticalization subverticalization More than 90% of annual revenue from existing clients existing clients

breadth and depth of capabilities to deliver on the most challenging client needs

By leveraging highly flexible business processes, a seamless global delivery network and deep domain expertise, Cognizant delivers a better return on outsourcing. Cognizant was one of the first IT services companies to organize around key industry verticals and horizontals. This enables Cognizant to establish extremely close partnerships that foster continuous operational improvements and better bottom-line results for clients.

Proactive solutions offerings for improving operational efficiency, complying with industry operational efficiency, complying with industry regulations, and improving customer service regulations, and improving customer service levlevels els

Recognized as a Leader
We are gratified that our passion for building stronger businesses is consistently recognized by independent sources and clients. Recent accolades include:

Newsweek's 2011 Green Rankings (October 2011) Fortune 500 (May 2011)of Fastest Growing Fortune's All Star List Companies (September 2011)

From its founding, Cognizant was built with a global mindset. With headquarters in the U.S. and a rapidly expanding delivery footprint which extends from India and China to Europe, North and South America, and the Middle East, Cognizant corporate overview | February 2012

InformationWeek's Top Innovators (Sept. 2011) Forbes Global 1000 Company (April 2011) Fortunes Worlds Most Admired Companies Fortune 500 (May 2011) (March 2011)

The greatest tributes by far are those we get from our customers, who choose to partner with Cognizant and entrust us with critical aspects of their businesses. Global 2000 clients select Cognizant because our passion and professionalism provides strong competitive advantage in their race for the future. Its a race we are passionate about helping clients win.

A Passionate Focus on Client Needs


At Cognizant, we are proud to have built a culture attuned to anticipating and understanding our clients needs, and then working in close partnership with them to make their businesses stronger more productive, more profitable, more capable of capturing market opportunities and thus more valuable.

Our unique Two-in-a-Box client-relationship model offers greater customer intimacy, speed of delivery, local decision-making, and responsiveness, which has helped Cognizant build deep, We are working in fast-growing partner- partnership with clients ships with clients. to make their businesses This model combines technical and account stronger and more management teams valuable. located onsite at the customer location and offshore at dedicated development centers located in India and around the world. By working closely with our clients leadership teams, we gain better insights for providing the best possible IT-enabled solutions to their business challenges.

Our Goal
Making our customers

businesses

stronger by empowering them to be more responsive to their customers and to the competitive environment.

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A Passion for Specialized Expertise


To meet the specialized needs of each client, Cognizant has continued to invest in deepening our industry-specific organizational capabilities and delivery excellence. We continuously add experienced team members with distinguished track records in key sectors, such as banking, capital markets, insurance, life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, retail, utilities, hospitality, communications, information services, media, and entertainment, who serve as subject matter experts and provide clients with valid insights into and viable solutions to particular industry issues. Cognizant has a global delivery platform that supports an onsite/offshore model that meets clients needs 24/7. Our service delivery is powered by Cognizant 2.0, our global knowledge-sharing and project management platform. Cognizant 2.0 enables our teams, business partners and clients to collaborate virtually via instant messaging, blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 tools. The platform

also provides active process guidance to our project teams, enabling them to work faster and more efficiently solving IT and business challenges. In a typical client engagement, our team members located at the customers place of business handle approximately 25-30% of the workload. The balance is performed at one of over 50 global delivery Our industry focus centers around the allows us to understand world.

our clients businesses,

At a time when compa- industry initiatives, and nies across the globe cultures, and to create are relentlessly striving to compete better, move solutions that fit their faster, and fight harder, individual needs. leading organizations across various industries from financial services and healthcare through manufacturing, media, retail, utilities, and telecommunications are partnering with Cognizant to continuously elevate the business value of their IT assets and to make their businesses stronger.

27 of the top 30 Global Pharmaceutical companies 15 of the top 20 U.S. Healthcare Plans 5 of the top 6 US PBMs 9 of the top 10 Biotech companies 12 of the top 20 Medical Device companies

7 of the top 10 Global insurers 13 of the top 25 U.S. Property & Casualty insurers 12 of the top 25 U.S. Life insurers

7 of the top 10 Communications Services Providers & Equipment Vendors

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Insurance

6 out of the top 10 North American Financial institutions 10 out of the top 10 European Financial institutions

Communications

Banking & Financial Services

Technology
4 of the top 5 Online Companies 7 of the top 10 ISVs 2 of the top 5 Semiconductor Manufacturers

Manufacturing & Logistics


3 of the top 10 Manufacturing & Logistics companies

Information, Media & Entertainment

Retail, Travel & Hospitality

4 of the top 10 Information Service companies worldwide 4 of the top 10 Global Media companies 6 of the major U.S. Movie Studios

9 of the top 30 Global Retailers 2 of the top 4 Global Distribution System companies 3 leading U.S. Airlines 3 of the worlds leading Restaurant chains

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Cognizants Unique Operating Model

Deep relationship aligned with the client organization

Empowered organization with focus on value addition in domain and technology

Independent Cognizant customer satisfaction surveys consistently reveal that our clients receive superior quality IT services at significantly lower cost, which enables them to maintain operational agility and focus on core competencies that drive bottom-line and top-line growth.

Our Portfolio of Services


Across each business segment, Cognizant provides a broad and expanding range of information technology consulting and business processing outsourcing services, including:

Project-based application services Business and technology consulting Complex systems integration Application outsourcing

Business process services IT infrastructure and cloud services Analytics, Business Intelligence, CRM, Data Data Warehousing, Supply Chain Management, Engineering Management Solutions, ERP, Testing Solutions

About Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 50 delivery centers worldwide and approximately 137,700 employees as of December 31, 2011, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.. Visit us online at www.cognizant.com or follow us on Twitter: Cognizant.

World Headquarters
500 Frank W. Burr Blvd. Teaneck, NJ 07666 USA Phone: +1 201 801 0233 Fax: +1 201 801 0243 Toll Free: +1 888 937 3277 Email: inquiry@cognizant.com

European Headquarters
1 Kingdom Street Paddington Central London W2 6BD Phone: +44 (0) 20 7297 7600 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7121 0102 Email: infouk@cognizant.com

India Operations Headquarters


#5/535, Old Mahabalipuram Road Okkiyam Pettai, Thoraipakkam Chennai, 600 096 India Phone: +91 (0) 44 4209 6000 Fax: +91 (0) 44 4209 6060 Email: inquiryindia@cognizant.com

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