Ordina Inks Strategic Alliance With Cognizant

Cognizant, a provider of global IT and business process outsourcing services and Ordina, a Dutch IT services provider have announced a strategic alliance, to provide Cognizant"s global delivery model combined with Ordina"s consulting, ICT and outsourcing solutions to the Dutch and Belgian market.

Cognizant will become Ordina"s primary strategic partner in the Benelux for offshore solutions. The two companies will jointly offer global delivery solutions for Ordina"s Top 40 customers in the financial services, public, industrial and telecommunications markets.

“We are excited about this alliance because deep local domain expertise and relationship management, coupled with global sourcing and global delivery, are becoming mainstream in the Benelux IT outsourcing market,” said Ronald Kasteel, CEO, Ordina N.V. “By having access to Cognizant"s offshore delivery capabilities, this partnership enables us to achieve faster growth and overcome the scarcity in high-quality ICT-capacity.”

According to Santosh Thomas, VP, Continental Europe, Cognizant, “We believe that this alliance will enable us to drive superior results for Dutch clients, as together with Ordina we can bring our joint customers a world-class powerful combination of deep local knowledge and a market-leading global delivery platform.”