New engagement with UK's largest energy
services provider strengthens Cognizant's position as Centrica's
leading services partner for its digital journey
LONDON, Oct. 5, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant today announced that it has extended
its long-standing relationship with Centrica, the largest supplier
of energy and energy services to the United Kingdom, to deliver business
critical services encompassing application testing and management
of its IT infrastructure landscape.
As part of the new contract, Cognizant will provide a
combination of application, non-production environment management
and testing, and cloud infrastructure support. Through the creation
of a more holistic and integrated IT engagement, Cognizant will
enable a more efficient, cost-competitive, and integrated service.
Centrica will benefit from flexibility to scale integrated
application, infrastructure and testing services up or down,
enhanced performance of its IT infrastructure, and consumer-facing
applications with improved availability and responsiveness to
enhance user experiences for Centrica's ten million
end-customers.
"As the energy industry changes, our ability to adapt and evolve
is of critical importance, so that we make things simpler for our
customers and their busy lives," said Darren Miles, Group Chief Information Officer,
Centrica. "As such, we are pleased to continue working with
Cognizant as a reliable and experienced technology partner that
understands our business and is able to deliver mission-critical
systems that are fundamental to our journey."
"We are incredibly proud of our long-standing relationship with
Centrica and the opportunity to bring our expertise to bear at a
time when the energy markets and utility industry as a whole are
faced with unprecedented volatility and public scrutiny," said
Rohit Gupta, Managing Director,
UK&I, Cognizant. "We are delighted to continue building on our
relationship with the UK's leading energy and energy services
supplier."
Since 2005, Cognizant has provided Centrica with a broad range
of consulting, AIA, data, cloud and digital engineering services,
including SAP business transformation services, addressing the need
for accelerated digital transformation, agility, speed and
infrastructure security.
About Centrica
Centrica is a leading international energy services and
solutions provider focused on satisfying the changing needs of
their customers and enabling the transition to a lower carbon
future. Centrica's business is founded on a 200-year heritage of
serving people. Centrica supplies energy and services to over 10
million customer accounts in the UK and Ireland through strong brands such as British
Gas and Dyno, supported by circa 7000 field engineers.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. We help
our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform
experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world.
Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at
www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
U.S.
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Schneider
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