On January 26, 1994, Cognizant was incubated as a joint venture between Dun & Bradstreet and Satyam (now Mahindra Satyam).
It was one of the 600-odd companies thriving on a single business idea -- leveraging talent from India to serve global customers in the field of technology.
Twenty years later, the company has grown into India’s second-largest information technology services company, after Tata Consultancy Services.
Compared with 200 employees and revenue of about $2 million in 1994, the company today has 166,000 employees and market capitalisation of $30 billion; its revenue for 2013 is estimated at $8.8 billion.
