Cognizant Buys Australian Analytics Firm Servian

IT and business process consultancy Cognizant has acquired Sydney, Australia-based enterprise data and analytics consulting firm Servian. Terms were not disclosed.

Servian, which also has offices in Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart, as well as in India, the UK and New Zealand, offers digital transformation services using analytics, AI, experience design and a range of other digital services and technologies to develop clients' own data assets.

Following the acquisition, Servian's more than 500 technology and consulting professionals, led by founder and CEO Tony Nicol (pictured) and based primarily in Australia and New Zealand, will join Cognizant, doubling the size of the latter's Cloud and Data team in ANZ. According to Cognizant, the deal will help clients move to the cloud, build digital products and services, unlock value from data, and modernize enterprise applications.

Nicol comments: 'Enabling clients to leverage their data assets for accelerating business transformation and driving competitive advantage is at the heart of our success. With Cognizant's deep industry expertise and global scale, we will be able to apply our strengths in strategic advisory, engineering delivery, and managed services across an even broader spectrum of challenges and opportunities presented by the digital economy'.

Web sites: www.cognizant.com and www.servian.com .