• Cognizant Practice Overview Cognizant’s Pegasystems Capability Overview Pega Capability Overview transformation publication, Forrester Wave (published Q3, 2012). Cognizant’s Pegasystems capability and implementation success is unmatched. Our Pega • Our Clients have won numerous awards for team is the largest sub-practice in our global Cognizant-led projects, including “Crossing the Business Process Management (BPM) Practice, Chasm” and “Business Impact” awards in insurance which has over 2,600 BPM and industry subject matter and the “Innovation” award in health care. experts, architects and developers. We have over • At the FS Tech Award 2013 (UK), a Cognizant 2,000 trained, experienced and certified Pega PRPC Pega implementation at a premier banking and practitioners, including more than 25 CLSAs. Our Pega financial services client was the runner-up in team is augmented by a 100+ strong BPM business the category “best use of IT in insurance.” consulting team and more than 400 dedicated BPM Gartner has stated that our BPM practice’s testers. No one has executed more Pega releases • “strongest competencies are in process tools (900) for more customers (75+) than Cognizant and and assets” and “customer references report we’ve been doing it for more than a decade. that Cognizant is highly skilled at process rationalization.” Recognition Gartner recommends using Cognizant for “SOA- Cognizant was the 2013 Pega Award recipient for • • driven process redesign and process-based solutions, Thought Leadership and Delivering Customer particularly for implementing Pegasystems and Success adding to our previous awards for Oracle BPM [formerly BEA ALBPM], where it has business transformation, Pega expertise and the most extensive track record.” Pega practice excellence. • Cognizant has been selected by Pega to Four Pillars of Success support the Pega-Partner Innovation Center Our Pega implementation approach is underpinned initiative for product upgrades. Through this by our “four pillars of success” -- described in the program, we enable our clients to quickly and following subsections. These create the framework cost-effectively take optimal advantage of for BPM excellence ensuring involvement by the right Pega upgrade features. Cognizant has constituents at the right time to achieve the business developed a five-stage methodology for results expected from a successful Pega implementation. upgrading PRPC applications that integrates This four-pronged approach helps the team identify the best practices and tools offered by and address potential issues ahead of time and deliver Pegasystems with Cognizant’s BPM acumen maximum business value to our clients. and in-house IP-based tools. • Cognizant Business Consulting was named a “leader” by Forrester in its business technology practice overview | august 2013 Product-Based Delivery hospitality, communications, information, media and entertainment, technology, government, etc. • We have numerous trained, experienced and certified Pega architects and developers. Ensuring Faster Time-to-Market Our expertise and experience in supporting • We bring a range of proprietary assets as well as various development methodologies includes accelerators, tools and infrastructure to achieve Waterfall, Iterative and Agile (Scrum). faster time-to-market for new Pega applications, • We leverage our pool of experienced Pega including: delivery leads who have both technical Pega reference artifacts such as BPM CoE knowledge and project management expertise. • roadmap checklist, Pega reference architecture BPM Business Consulting layout, use case estimation template, design and coding standards and many more. • Our team members come from leading business schools with relevant domain experience. • UAA (upgrade assessment and analysis) tool, which generates a set of documents for an We offer analytical rigor, proven methods and • upgrade proposal (an indispensable aid for tools and a focus on addressing the key business managers/business users) as well as an effective issues. analytical mechanism that provides the right • We envision future-state business models to input to the estimation template ensuring address pain points in current processes and precise sizing. we leverage Pega OOTB features to achieve BTP (BPM test processor) that helps automate strategic business objectives. • the generation of test scenarios based on BPM Technology Consulting requirements and BPDs. It also helps in optimizing test design and regression efforts. • Our experienced architects have an average of 10 to 15 years of experience. • BUDGT (business users data generation tool) which is a test data generator tool. This tool We leverage technology to enable agility and • accepts test scenarios, test screen flows and innovation in business processes. test data requirements in specific templates • Pega reference architecture definitions. and generates corresponding test data with the • Architecture definition and review. required integrity. • Pega COE setup and operation. • Homegrown Pega utilities such as its log scheduler, performance monitoring tool, meeting • Performance engineering. scheduler, report scheduling wizard, notifier • Design and code review. utility, preflight management, Web service testing tool, dead code utility, PRPC rule, rule set Pega system administration. • and rule base comparison tools, correspondence • Decision management and mobility. management framework, agent monitoring tool, code review tool, code migration tool, skill- BPM Testing based routing tool, bulk operator creation tool, • Certified and experienced QA professionals dynamic data caching framework and more. with Pega product expertise. • BPM laboratory: We have an advanced BPM • Unique model-driven testing approach for Pega. laboratory setup equipped with multiple software • Host of solution accelerators for optimized and hardware platforms to proactively conduct testing. research and development. This laboratory setup is also used to help customers initiate their • Predefined libraries and frameworks for BPM journey with minimal up-front investments. automation testing of Pega applications. • Proprietary tools such as BTP and BUDGT. Specialized Expertise Cognizant also brings a range of specialized Our industry expertise encompasses all of • skills that can be leveraged depending on the the following: banking and financial services, client’s specific needs: insurance, healthcare, life sciences, retail, travel and practice overview 2 > Strong domain expertise: We have A Multi-dimensional Relationship with extensive domain experience with dedicated Pegasystems business and technology teams spanning key verticals like banking and financial Cognizant is a Pega Global Strategic Platinum services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, Partner and Pega Authorized PRPC Migration retail and others. Partner (all versions). We began working together with Pega on client projects in 1999. Our > Framework expertise: We have extensive partnership with Pega was formalized in 2003, implementation experience with Pega and since then, both companies – and their mutual PRPC frameworks in areas such as customers – have reaped tremendous benefits accounts opening, KYC, claims processing, from the strong relationship and co-development call center servicing, dispute management, initiatives. The alignment of vertical industries financial investigation, collections, between Cognizant and Pega includes healthcare, clinical management, care management life sciences, insurance and financial services. and customer process management for automating a wide array of business Pega Partnership Highlights processes across multiple domains. Being a Platinum Partner of Pegasystems, > Technology skills: We are a 156,000+-strong Cognizant enjoys a number of benefits, including: company with a range of technology skills in addition to BPM, such as: integration, SOA, • Product training on new Pegasystems products data warehousing, business intelligence, and frameworks. MDM, ERP, SCM, CRM and SaaS. We have • Early access to new releases. dedicated groups focused on SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) technologies, • Access to cloud instances. complex program management (PIPC) and • Product engineering involvement in the latest enterprise architecture (GTO). BPM projects products and frameworks from Pegasystems. invariably require multiple skills in the L2 and L3 support for Pegasystems products. same team and having access to expertise • on various technologies enables us to • Joint solution development for clients. form multiskilled teams rapidly and begin delivering value to our clients faster. Testimonials > Latest trends: We have been in the Cognizant’s Pega excellence is well recognized across forefront of exploring new trends in BPM Pega. “Pega greatly appreciates Cognizant’s collective and how they can deliver business value commitment to excellence, and Cognizant’s extensive for the customers such as social BPM, Pega experiences and expertise,” said John Barone, cloud BPM and mobile BPM. VP of Global Strategic Alliances at Pega. At Pega’s first annual Partner Excellence Awards, Cognizant • Our business and technology expertise and also won the “excellence in practice development” knowledge drive the delivery of services across award in recognition of the depth and breadth of its the build, deploy and manage continuum. We also Pega practice, thus becoming the only company to engage with customers consultatively, translating win two awards for best-in-class achievements.