Cognizant Technology Solutions

Cognizant believes that with it’s experience in the M2M field and as an SI integrator that it is well placed to provide the necessary capabilities to advise and support Telefonica in their challenge to provide effective, cost efficient and innovative services to their M2M Customers.

Cognizant also has a number of products that are tested and with the Cognizant’s SI capability allow integration into Telefonica’s systems, enabling a fast track to market.

Cognizant has a strong domain expertise in various industry verticals, by leveraging our knowledge of industry verticals in Cognizant has the experience of custom building solutions for the Customer.

In terms of thought leadership, we are also investing in Axeda and ILS application enablement platform (AEP) integration and BSS/OSS management capabilities. As well as expertise in Cloud computing, Analytics and Internet portal developmen.t

We think use of these types of platforms by Telefonica with growing M2M businesses there is the potential for "platform proliferation”.

Cognizant will enable Telefonica to keep the number of partners, processes, platforms, and BSS/OSS assets supporting M2M well architected and rationalised to remain flexible and cost efficient.

Low ARPD (average revenue per device) and margins for M2M connectivity and Telco managed services will not support a high cost infrastructure with a proliferation of data centre technologies to manage.