Cognizant sets up new delivery centre in Argentina

Chennai, Mar 12 (UNI) Cognizant, a leading provider of global consultation, software, IT infrastructure and business process services, announced today the official inauguration of its 35th global delivery center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The new centrr would support Cognizant's North American customers in a similar time zone, leverage techno-functional and lingual capabilities available in the region to service global customers, and provide a base with deep local insights for Cognizant to serve its customers in South America, a company release here said.

Cognizant's association with Buenos Aires commenced in 2007 with a unique model of co-creating value for Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C), jointly working with their local teams. With the association with K-C growing rapidly, and with other marquee customers in key vertical spaces like, consumer goods, retail, financial services and insurance evincing interest in leveraging same time zone support, Cognizant has set up the new facility that has the capacity to accommodate approximately 250 professionals.

Cognizant's Buenos Aires regional delivery would fully leverage the recently launched Cognizant 2.0 platform. This platform enables all of Cognizant's global, regional and local development centres to seamlessly and virtually collaborate through one central platform using the Web 2.0 technologies and deliver significant time-to-market, cost and transformational value to clients, the release added.

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