Editing Cognizant (section)

== Operations ==

=== Regions ===
As of December 2023, the company has over 347,700 employees globally, of which about 254,000 are in India across 11 cities with a plurality in [[Chennai]].<ref name="empl">{{cite news |title=Cognizant asks India employees to work from office thrice a week |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/information-tech/cognizant-asks-india-employees-to-work-from-office-thrice-a-week/articleshow/108075557.cms |date=28 February 2024 |work=The Economic Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Baruah |first1=Ayushman |title=Cognizant's attrition of 33% is highest in IT services industry |url=https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/cognizant-reports-attrition-rate-of-33-highest-in-it-services-industry-11635420298965.html |access-date=28 August 2022 |work=mint |date=28 October 2021 |language=en |archive-date=23 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220823171252/https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/cognizant-reports-attrition-rate-of-33-highest-in-it-services-industry-11635420298965.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On 20 January 1994, Cognizant registered its branch in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India with the legal name Cognizant Technology Solutions India Private Limited. The other centers of the company are in [[Bangalore]], [[Bhubaneswar]], [[Chennai]], [[Coimbatore]], [[Gurgaon]], [[Hyderabad]], [[Kochi]], [[Kolkata]], [[Mangalore]], [[Mumbai]], [[Noida]], [[Pune]] and [[Indore]]. The company has local, regional, and global delivery centers in the UK, Australia, Hungary, Netherlands, Spain, China, Philippines, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica, etc.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cognizant.com/contactus|title=Contact Us - Cognizant Technology Solutions|access-date=22 August 2013|archive-date=24 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130924230652/http://www.cognizant.com/contactus|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cognizant.com/contact-us|title=Contact Us &#124; Cognizant|access-date=24 July 2019|archive-date=17 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417133701/https://www.cognizant.com/contact-us|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mukesh G on LinkedIn: #cognizant #indore #newoffice #becognizant |url=https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mukeshnaidu_cognizant-indore-newoffice-activity-7185080966023974912-on3t |access-date=2024-06-02 |website=www.linkedin.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Service |first=Express News |date=2024-02-12 |title=IT giant Cognizant opens state-of-art centre in Bhubaneshwar |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2024/Feb/12/it-giant-cognizant-opens-state-of-art-centre-in-bhubaneshwar |access-date=2024-06-02 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-01-20 |title=Bengal IT minister tells Cognizant growth story to lure Infosys, Wipro |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/technology/bengal-it-minister-tells-cognizant-growth-story-to-lure-infy-wipro-112022000058_1.html |work=Bengal IT minister tells Cognizant growth story to lure Infy, Wipro}}</ref>

=== Business units ===
Cognizant is organized into several [[vertical market|verticals]] and [[horizontal market|horizontal]] units. The vertical units focus on specific industries such as Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Retail. The horizontal units focus on specific technologies or process areas such as Analytics, mobile computing, BPO and Testing. Both horizontal and vertical units have [[business consulting|business consultants]], who form the organization-wide Cognizant Consulting team together. Cognizant is among the largest recruiters of MBAs in the industry; they are involved in [[business development]] and [[business analysis]] for IT services projects.