Is there a link between digital transformation, innovation and a more sustainable business? To explore how prioritizing sustainability also paves the way for new business opportunities, we talked to Google and Wallenius Wilhelmsen, as well as to our own sustainability expert.
Denmark’s third largest customer-owned life insurance and pension company had a vision to create value for their customers by offering digital solutions that could be accessed anywhere at any time. Over the 24-month implementation, Cognizant successfully migrated over 750 mailboxes, two terabytes of Microsoft OneDrive data, 200 SharePoint sites and 40 key business applications without disruption.
Cognizant and Microsoft share a common purpose to improve everyday life. We kicked off our commitment to the Microsoft Partner Pledge in Sweden by supporting #SkillUpSweden. Here is how our team could see the eagerness among the participating teenagers to learn how to code and build amazing games, apps and websites.
Finland has, for the first time, been ranked number one in the annual international comparison of sustainable development ranking published by the UN and the Bertelsmann Foundation. The comparison assesses countries’ progress on implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals. But what does this mean for Finland and business in Finland?
Bringing broad skills acquired from various industries and cyber security roles, Stefan Netz just joined us at the Sweden office as a Lead Security Architect in the CIS (Cloud Infrastructure Services) Security PreSales team in the Nordics. Here he shares his views on how the security needs have change during the pandemic – explaining both where the challenges and the opportunities lie ahead.
Technologies like autonomous robots, smart sensors, and deep learning have made Amazon’s warehouses the best in the world. Most Nordic industrial warehouses would require a giant leap to get there, with many still dependent on desktop computers, printouts, and employee experience.
Businesses can’t break new ground without also cultivating the right workplace culture. All industries need to be aware: trying to superimpose traditional structures onto transformational processes will hamper progress. But how do you engineer higher-performing teams and how do lead in such environment?
As governments around the world are reducing subsidies for renewable energy-based generation, renewables are expected to start competing more with fossil fuel-based energy sources and reach grid parity. To make the energy transition economically visible, energy companies need to identify solutions for cost reductions in order to remain competitive within bid processes – and we believe digitalization can play a major role here.
It is almost an understatement to call sustainability a mega trend. It is no longer something that enterprises do of pure goodwill – it benefits the business as well. Even if it sounds far-fetched, IT plays an important role on the agenda.
Cognizant is committed to supporting gender diversity across the workplace, leveling the playing field for women in tech careers. The Women Empowered initiative aims to engage smart tech women here in the Nordics. Want to join us?
