IT Integration

To help clients contend with ongoing economic uncertainty and boost returns from their IT investments, Cognizant has created a methodology to accurately capture and assess the long-term business value of outsourcing applications development and maintenance. Our "Return on Outsourcing" white paper shows how to measure the cost advantages and business benefits of outsourcing.

A series of well planned, short-term IT decisions has never been more important than during trying economic times. We are finding that with firms being focused on survival they are increasingly looking to IT to help get them through the downturn. We outline six classes of business support on which IT leaders should focus to prepare your company for the next growth cycle.

Working with EDS, Kraft Foods is now positioned to rely on clearly documented IT services and processes that are expected to support its targets of growth, innovation and cost reduction.

How globalization -- coupled with the current tumultuous economic environment -- is affecting the marketing practices at leading consumer goods companies.

Wells' Dairy expands the company's virtualized environment to form the basis of a more efficient IT infrastructure and increase the cost savings it had already achieved.

As part of the agreement, IBM will provide IT infrastructure services, network support, application maintenance services and more.

Accenture will help Carlsberg IT carry out SAP and Microsoft software implementations in Europe over the next three to five years.

The Wells' Dairy IT department turned to virtualization, a technology allowing several servers to exist on a single physical piece of hardware yet run independently.