Cognizant Deploys IT Infrastructure Services at Rodale to Reduce Costs, Increase Efficiency, Improve Customer Experience

September 29th, 2009 LONDON and TEANECK, New Jersey - - Cognizant's Broad Spectrum of Services Will Help ELEXON Meet Future Balancing and Settlement Code Requirements of the Industry, While Improving its Services and Rationalizing Costs Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services, today announced that it has been selected by ELEXON, the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) Company, to help it deliver the settlement of electricity trading for Great Britain, while improving its current services, rationalizing costs, and strengthening its capability to meet the future BSC requirements of the industry. As part of the five-year engagement, Cognizant will provide a broad spectrum of strategic development, application management and support services to enable ELEXON to present the industry with clear options on the evolution of Balancing and Settlement Code systems, and add value to the services it offers in managing the settlement of electricity costs between suppliers, generators and other parties involved in the industry.

September 7th, 2009 TEANECK, New Jersey - - Clients to Benefit From More Complete Consulting Offering in IT Service Management and Asset Management Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, has announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Pepperweed Advisors, the IT consulting services division of Pepperweed Consulting. Pepperweed Advisors uses its proprietary best practice process models and software to act as a trusted advisor to IT leaders requiring vendor-neutral advice regarding optimal alignment of IT and business process flows.

August 16th, 2009 TEANECK, New Jersey - - Cognizant Now Offers U.S.-Based Delivery Capability Across All Major Service Offerings; Expects to Hire More Than 100 Professionals Over 12 Months, Bringing Phoenix Presence to About 400 Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, has announced the operational expansion of its Phoenix delivery center, adding BPO services to an existing roster of application development, application maintenance, testing, and related services. Cognizant's Phoenix BPO center will initially provide claims processing services for one of the largest healthcare plans in the U.S.

July 22nd, 2009 TEANECK, New Jersey - - Cognizant 'Moving Up in the Market' Through Vertical Market Focus, Strong Client Relationships and Reputation for Reliability, Report Finds Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services, has been recognized as an emerging challenger in the technology-enabled business services market, according to a July 2009 Forrester Research, Inc. report entitled, "SWOT: The Evolution of IT Service Providers to Business Technology Competitors." The report states, "Cognizant's clear focus on vertical market expertise is helping it drive deeper into business processes in an attempt to move up the value chain." According to the report, "For years, [leading companies in this market] have based their value propositions on the ability to provide comprehensive business solutions.

July 8th, 2009 TEANECK, New Jersey and CHENNAI, India - Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, today announced the launch of a unique and comprehensive platform that will foster innovation and enable the company to deliver greater value in the area of testing. The platform was inaugurated by Mohammad Zahoor, IT Director, PEMCO Insurance, a Cognizant client.

June 23rd, 2009 ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, TEANECK, New Jersey and CHENNAI, India - - Builds the Middle East's First Online Health Insurance Portal to Help Daman's Customers Meet Their Health Insurance Needs Online Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services, today announced that it has developed the Middle East's first online health insurance portal for National Health Insurance Company, Daman, the region's leading health insurance company, which provides comprehensive healthcare solutions via the largest network of private hospitals and pharmacies in the UAE. The new web portal, www.damanhealth.ae, was launched recently in Abu Dhabi and will transform the way health insurance is provided in the region.

June 21st, 2009 LONDON - Logica, a leading IT and business services company, today announced that 48 banks represented by The Banks' Association of Turkey (TBB) have upgraded their financial messaging infrastructure using Logica's high-end messaging system. The Logica platform has been successfully rolled out across 10 international and 38 Turkish banks in the record time of just two months.

June 15th, 2009 TEANECK, New Jersey and CHENNAI, India - e-commerce Infrastructure to Support mjunction's Retail, Auction, and Automobile Portals Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services, today announced that it has been selected by mjunction services limited, one of India's largest e-commerce companies that also runs the world's largest e-marketplace for steel, to develop scalable e-commerce infrastructure for its online retail, auction, and automobile portals, thereby helping the company to increase its market share. As part of the engagement, Cognizant will develop an online store that will transform the sale of branded items and support newer business models envisioned by mjunction, encompassing support services such as advertising, subscription, and classifieds.

May 12th, 2009 PARIS - Valeo today announced that the Group's 30,000 Internet-connected employees now have access to a new communication and collaborative working platform based on Google Apps Premier Edition and supported by Capgemini. The progressive roll-out of the new system is giving employees access to a suite of online products which will increase administrative efficiency and improve collaboration between the 193 Valeo entities in 27 countries.

April 16th, 2009 TEANECK, New Jersey - Cognizant's IT Infrastructure Services recognized for 'strong delivery capability and solid value-based strategies for the future' Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) today announced it was named a "Leader" in "The Forrester Wave(TM): Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2009" by Paul Roehrig, Ph.D. Cognizant moved to the "Leaders" category for the first time in the benchmarking report, which evaluated 15 global firms with a track record of success in infrastructure services.

April 21st, 2009 High cost of addressing climate change challengedWASHINGTON — An environmental group is challenging claims that major reductions in greenhouse gases would lead to soaring energy costs. The Union of Concerned Scientists says its analysis, using Energy Department computer models, show that higher electric and gasoline costs will be offset by improvements in energy and automobile efficiency.

May 26th, 2009 MUMBAI - Reliance Communications (RCom), India's second largest telecom operator, Tuesday said it has received approval from its shareholders for the demerger of its optic fibre division and subsequent merger with wholly-owned subsidiary Reliance Infratel. "The demerger will help reduce set-up and operating costs resulting in cost efficiency coupled with greater financial flexibility, the company said in a regulatory statement.

July 13th, 2009 MUMBAI - Kohinoor Planet Constructions Pvt Ltd., the real estate arm of the Kohinoor group, is developing the first platinum LEED certified green hospital in the country. The 150 bed, multi-specialty Kohinoor hospital is implementing a range of energy efficient measures to reduce energy consumption, decrease greenhouse gas emissions and improve the quality of patient care.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government is planning to set up a new company to oversee and implement energy efficiency schemes and reduce transmission losses. The company, Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), will be a joint venture with equity participation of 25 percent each from its promoters - NTPC, PowerGrid Corp, Rural Electrification Corp and Power Finance Corp, Minister of State for Power Bharatsinh Solanki told parliament Monday.

June 2nd, 2009 Duke asks for 12.6 percent rate increase for NCCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Utility company Duke Energy said Tuesday it will ask North Carolina regulators to increase customer rates by an average of 12.6 percent beginning Jan.

July 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hate paying the hair-stylist despite not liking that recent haircut? Well, a Chinese salon has come up with a unique idea to ensure customer service-they can pay according to their satisfaction. The barbershop in Xi'an, Shaanxi's Capital, came up with the unique method of payment last December.

July 21st, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Communications, a leading telecom and Internet services provider, Tuesday launched advanced ethernet services to help its customers experience high-speed, secure and cost-effective bandwidth. Ethernet is a widely installed local area network (LAN) technology.

September 25th, 2009 RR Donnelley pays $122M to end losing contractCHICAGO — R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., a Chicago printing services company, said in a regulatory filing Friday that is has agreed to end its contractual relationship with a significant customer.

July 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - A majority of IT companies in the country has urged the government to create better infrastructure to spur domestic demand and provide incentives to the slowdown-hit IT exports sector, a survey released Wednesday said. According to the survey, conducted by IT magazine Dataquest, most chief executives of the companies focussed on the domestic market said: "The government should deploy IT in all areas of governance to boost domestic demand." Two-thirds of the top executives surveyed said the most important task before the new government was to create better infrastructure.

January 5th, 2009 JAIPUR - Reliance Communications (R-Com), India's only telecom service provider to offer GSM and CDMA services nationwide, has launched mobile GSM services in over 1,450 towns and more than 10,000 villages in Rajasthan. The company also launched a first-of-its-kind Customer Experience Programme (CEP) for subscribers opting for its GSM services, which offers up to 100 percent savings to sub-Rs.300 Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) mobile customers for a one-time subscription charge (including GSM SIM) of Rs.25.