Cognizant Adds to Argentina – Is Mexico Next?
March 8th, 2010US IT services firm Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) will be expanding services offered from its Argentine delivery center, the company’s country manager for Argentina, Cristián Argüello, told BNamericas.
Cognizant currently focuses on providing business application development, support and maintenance from its center, which is located in Buenos Aires. Argüello said the division will be developing business process and infrastructure management services, primarily for Cognizant’s global clients that are either expanding to Latin America or are looking to the region to complement their existing outsourcing plans.
“We are referring to value-added business processes and also device, network, server, database and operating system monitoring,” he said.
The life sciences, financial and consumer goods sectors represent Cognizant’s main regional clients, with each market accounting for 20-25% of the Argentine delivery center’s revenues. Argüello noted that market consolidation – especially in the life sciences industry – is also helping to generate new IT service business opportunities. Other 2010 …
