"This relationship is significant," said Sudipta Bhattacharya, Chief Executive Officer and President, Invensys Operations Management. "The manufacturing technology market is at an inflection point as companies move to seamlessly stitch plant floor applications to enterprise applications to access and act on real-time manufacturing information. There is significant innovation happening at this intersection of the real-time manufacturing execution world and the transaction based enterprise world.  In Cognizant we have found a partner who shares our vision around where the market is headed for the next generation of engineering services and manufacturing operations solutions, and brings synergistic product development and software engineering capabilities and leading edge tools. We expect to be able to learn from the strengths each of us brings to the table." 

Francisco D'Souza, President and CEO, Cognizant added. "We will significantly augment Invensys' ability to innovate and ramp up the delivery of products by blending that talent with our own consulting, enterprise integration, services-based architecture, business intelligence, supply chain and product lifecycle management.

As a part of this relationship, Cognizant would augment and maintain Invensys' suite of products, and bring in greater operational efficiency, scalability, consistency and cost-effectiveness to its global product R&D processes, says the press note. To realize this goal, offers to join Cognizant will be made to over 400 Invensys Operations Management professionals from its existing R&D center in Hyderabad, a company note adds.