Cognizant, a provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, said that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Pepperweed Advisors, the IT consulting services division of Pepperweed Consulting, in a move to strengthen its consulting capabilities in IT Infrastructure Services.
Francisco D’Souza, president and CEO of Cognizant, said: We welcome Pepperweed Advisors to the Cognizant fold as we strengthen our Cognizant Business Consulting offerings. Our consulting breadth and depth have been a significant differentiator for our growing IT IS practice. Pepperweed helps to round out our IT IS consulting portfolio while enhancing our ability to serve as trusted advisors to our clients.
The company said that the acquisition strengthens its IT Infrastructure Services (IT IS) practice in two areas, IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Asset Management (ITAM) – along with seasoned consulting talent and intellectual property, including well defined ITIL-based processes, tools, and frameworks.
The acquisition will benefit its clients with a complete IT infrastructure process consulting offering that complements its Operations Maturity Model, the company claims.
Robert Boles, vice president of IT IS at Cognizant, said: Pepperweed Advisors brings us intellectual property, IT process models, and detailed delivery kits that deepen our domain expertise and enable hands-on implementation of ITSM for our clients, leveraging our ITIL-based global service delivery framework. Pepperweed Advisors’ mature, experienced consultants will lead our transformational process efforts with both our consulting and managed services client engagements.
