Cognizant expands US delivery centre; to hire 500 people

Cognizant recently announced crossing the 100,000-employee mark and is hiring aggressively in the US, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia.

By PTI | Jan 12, 2011, 07.08 PM IST

NEW DELHI: IT firm Cognizant on Wednesday said it will expand its delivery center in Phoenix, US to accommodate over 1,000 employees from the existing 500-seater capacity.

Cognizant had recently announced crossing the 100,000-employee mark and continues to hire aggressively within North America as well as Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia.

"Cognizant's new delivery center in Phoenix will accommodate over 1,000 employees, replacing its existing 500-person facility," Cognizant said in a statement.

It will provide a full range of services from the new center, including consulting, application services, IT infrastructure services, and business and knowledge process services, it added.

In addition to the Phoenix center, Cognizant has an enterprise analytics center in New Jersey, a global Network Operations Center (NOC) in Massachusetts and other delivery centers in Arkansas and Illinois.

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