
Cognizant
With more than 10 years of global delivery excellence in all versions of webMethods, Cognizant’s Business Process Integration (BPI) Practice focuses on providing expert services in the following technology areas:
- Application Integration
- B2B Integration
- Development Tools
- API Management
- Cloud Integration with CloudStreams
- Business Process Engine, Modeling, and Optimization
- Reporting UI with ARIS Mashzone and the Composite Application Framework (CAF)
- Infrastructure Security and System Management
Cognizant consulting services also include: Integration Competency Center (ICC) and Center of Excellence (COE) setup, architecture evaluation and roadmap preparation, ESB adoption and implementation, products evaluation, B2B consulting, ESB testing, proof-of-concepts, capacity planning, ESB reference architecture services, ARIS 7.x to 9.x platform expertise, Terracotta, Cloud Solutions, Apama services, ApplinX and Intelligent Business Operations (IBO) solutions. Through years of experience, Cognizant has also developed reusable assets and frameworks to rapidly deploy efficient and high quality implementations.
For customers to keep pace with evolving webMethods product offerings, we provide no-obligation webMethods 9.X upgrade assessment estimation. We also do an initial free consulting analysis for your Software AG projects.
Products
Overview
Intraday Liquidity Monitoring
A Cognizant solution powered by Software AG
The Intraday Liquidity Monitoring solution offers multinational banks global, entity and currency-level insights into payments and settlements as well as intraday liquidity in real time. In addition to providing the Cognizant tools and data for configurable stress tests as recommended by Basel III, the solution offers forecasting, trend analysis and automated alert generation for management of collateral, cash and FOREX. The solution is based on Software AG’s Digital Business Platform. | ![]() ![]() |
Features and Benefits
Provides a holistic view of Intraday Liquidity |
Single view through global dashboard for providing information about all the payments. |
Measure expected daily gross liquidity inflows and outflows | Monitor intraday liquidity exposures against the available liquidity sources. |
Drill down into liquidity usage patterns to various levels |
Functionality to drill down into liquidity usage patterns to various levels including country, currency, branch and customer level. |
Estimate intraday liquidity costs |
The ability to estimate intraday liquidity costs and incorporate these in pricing of credit lines. |
Monitor and forecast liquidity buffers across channels |
The ability to monitor and forecast liquidity buffers across channels. |
Forecast intraday liquidity flows and shortfalls |
Forecast intraday liquidity flows and shortfalls; automatic trigger for collateral management and for cash management systems. |
Cover Multiple Payments and Reporting formats |
Support for all major types of payments and reporting formats (e.g. SWIFT MT/MX , EDIFACT, PACS, PAIN, PAYMUL, CREMUL etc.) |
BCBS 248 Regulatory Reports |
Ability to produce BCBS 248 regulatory reports, internal MI reports and necessary external stakeholder reports. |
Real-Time Analysis and Visualization |
The platform’s support of extreme scale and performance on commodity hardware enables more use cases with a lower TCO. It correlates events from many sources, breaking down organizational silos. With the real time dashboards ILM reflects any change in liquidity positions. |
Reports Creation |
Cognizant Intraday Liquidity Monitoring Solution can generate BCBS 248 Regulatory Reports, Internal MI Reports and necessary external Stakeholder Reports. It also support for all major types of Payments and Reporting formats (e.g. SWIFT MT/MX , EDIFACT, PACS, PAIN, PAYMUL, CREMUL etc.) |
Advanced Analytics Capabilities |
The solution provides a configurable engine for complex calculation rules including forecasting, with historic trends as well as trends analysis and the ability to generate alerts based on pre-configured rules. |
Best-in-Class Integration Capabilities |
Cognizant ILM can integrate with multiple data sources, both internal systems and external standard. Providing out-of-the-box adapters for majority of data sources it heavily reduces the need of coding and can be expanded to new data feeds such as financial new, etc. |
Resources
Solution Brief | Intraday Liquidity Monitoring |
White Paper | Strategic Intraday Liquidity Monitoring Solution for Banks |
Screenshot Intraday Liquidity Monitoring Layers |
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Retcon
A Cognizant solution powered by Software AG
Retail Connect SolutionCognizant‘s Retcon solution generates real-time marketing offers based on retail stores check-ins, in-store activity, social and other customer centric information. The solution uses Software AG's Apama, webMethods Integration and Universal Messaging. | ![]() ![]() |
Features and Benefits
Connects IoT |
Devices like Beacons and mobile are used along with integration patterns such as: Amazon SQS API, Amazon SNS API, webMethods ESB, Apama Streaming Analytics and Presto dashboard. |
Provide suitable offers on the product |
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Real-time personalized offers |
When users doing their shopping in the store, using beacons and mobile devices the information on products being shopped are captured and this solution provides personalized offers to users through their mobiles. |
Resources
Presentation | Retcon Solution Overview |
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Echeck Solution
A Cognizant solution powered by Software AG
eCheck solution is aimed at making checks acceptance easier, safer and most cost effective for banks. It helps streamline the check acceptance process, reduce paper work and expedite closure, balance updates and settlement processes. Cognizant developed a solution using Software AG BPMS suite which expands online payment options and automates processing to help increase sales and reduce costs. Banking customers having checking accounts, including small businesses that currently have little access to electronic payment systems can benefit immensely from this eCheck processing. | ![]() ![]() |
Features and Benefits
Secure Transactions |
eCheck solution allows financial institutions to combine safety, cost-effectiveness, reporting efficiencies of SWIFT based transactions with established business processes and rich legal framework of paper checks. |
Efficient Tracking |
This solution provides improved querying, fraud check detection, tracking and reporting facilities by validating beneficiary account details, account number, MICR code, and availability of funds. |
Speeds Processing Time |
When checks are cleared in one day instead of three or more days, financial float costs are virtually eliminated, leveling the playing field considerably. Check fraud currently costs banks $1 billion and merchants $10 billion in losses. It saves banks and merchants huge losses by cutting down the time it takes to return bad check information to the financial institution. |
Fraud Detection |
With instant access to eChecks, banks can detect and track fraudulent activity in initial stages and implement new applications to protect against losses. Banks see significant improvement in skip tracing efforts by retrieving name and address information from eChecks. |
Resources
Presentation | eCheck Solution Overview |
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Smart Insure
A Cognizant solution powered by Software AG
Cognizant's Smart Insure solution is designed to perform the screening functions traditionally completed by insurance functions in paper mode, in a smart and automated manner with an option of manual intervention (as necessary) thereby leading to a faster & efficient process while issuing an Insurance Policy. Developed with the Software AG BPMS suite, the solution makes the underwriting processes more consistent, reduce costs, and achieve greater productivity from the underwriters. Easy to integrate IT systems and provide underwriters with access to critical data to assess the potential for future risks. This solution also simplify simplifies complex and time-consuming underwriting processes, thereby reducing costs and enhancing customer experience. This solution covers following functionalities: New Business |Claims |Policy Owner Admin |Product Management. | ![]() ![]() |
Features and Benefits
Follows SOA Model |
Follows SOA Model consisting of presentation layer, process layer, services layer, data and application layer. |
Reusable and Configurable |
Reusable and extensible UI, processes, rules, and services. Configurable business processes and rules based on the business requirements like approval hierarchy, process routing etc. |
User Friendly Reporting |
Business user friendly reporting dashboard depicting business data, KPIs, and complex events. |
Consistant Underwriting Process |
This solution makes the underwriting processes more consistent, reduce costs, and achieve greater productivity from the underwriters. |
User Friendly Reporting |
Business user friendly reporting dashboard depicting business data, KPIs, and complex events. |
Resources
Presentation | Smart Insure Solution Overview |
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Wash Trade Solution
A Cognizant solution powered by Software AG
Cognizant's Wash Trade Solution detects the wash-trade events from high frequency trading data streams. Whenever a user suspects that the wash trade has occurred, they trigger the event matching mechanism by sending out an event with all required details. As the event reaches the Apama application, it checks for the patterns matching within the all available records in the given time period and alert the user with the list of wash trade records. The solution uses Software AG's Apama, webMethods Integration and Universal Messaging. | ![]() ![]() |
Features and Benefits
Flexible to changing environments |
Power to adjust to continuously shifting market scenarios and continuously changing regulations requirements. |
Low latency |
Trading strategies executes with very low latency and satisfies real-time risk management needs. |
Rapidly define event-based rules | Enables end business users to rapidly define event-based rules to identify patterns indicating opportunities and threats to the business. |
Rapidly define event-based rules |
Enable end business users to rapidly define event-based rules to identify patterns indicating opportunities and threats to the business. |
Efficient pattern analysis |
Events can be captured and preserved in time-order sequence for historical pattern analysis and root-cause analysis |
Resources
Presentation | Wash Trade Solution Overview |
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Lifecon
A Cognizant solution powered by Software AG
Cognizant's Lifecon solution enables devices and things to be integrated. This solution provides a holistic view of connected life using SMAC & IoT. It keeps a record of daily activities of a person by integrating IoT devices with cloud APIs, such that the person is connected to social media, environment, health, home, money, etc. all in same platform. This solution uses Software AG's webMethods Integration. | ![]() ![]() |
Features and Benefits
Supports multiple functionalities |
This solution can help with different aspects of life: health management, home management, finance management, etc. |
Post status to Facebook |
Based on weather conditions received from forecast sites, it updates Facebook for work out location using different integration patterns like Openweather API, Facebook API and webMethods IBO. |
Suggests optimum hydration rate and suggests suitable food |
Based on information such as distance traveled, steps taken or calories burnt from a smart device, it suggests optimum hydration rate and suggest suitable food. On BMI received from smart devices it suggests exercises. This uses Fitbit API and webMethods IBO Integration patterns. This also uses FitBit Flex and Fitbit Aria IOT devices. |
Suggests restaurants or events |
Based on important dates recorded in Facebook such as wedding anniversaries, it can suggest restaurants or events. This uses integration patterns like Facebook API and webMethods IBO. |
Holistic view of connected life |
This solution uses SMAC and IoT. It keeps a record of daily activities of a person by integrating IoT devices with cloud APIs, such that the person is connected to social media, environment, health, home, money, etc. all in same platform. |
Resources
Presentation | Lifecon Solution Overview |
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Integrated Process Management Services
Digital integration and process management expertise
World's leading Integration and Process Management practiceIntegrated Process Management (IPM) is one of Cognizant's leading technology practices and one of the world's largest integration middleware and process management group. Cognizant's IPM Practice has provided high quality integration & Process Management solutions to the world's leading corporations across various domains allowing business applications to assume new and progress roles. Our service offerings are equipped with new-generation solutions, frameworks & methodologies, powered by industry best-practices & extensive knowledge repositories that help us deliver unique value to our clients. | ![]() |
Features and Benefits
Indicative Customer Benefits |
We help our customers enhance their performance and accuracy for improving data visibility with simplified processes, reduced complexity and reduced operational costs. By reducing paperwork, effort and overall costs we help enhance the customer experience and easily automate manual processes. |
This is How We Do It |
Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world’s leading companies build stronger businesses. The recipient of Software AG’s Partner Innovation Awards in 2015 & 2014 with the impressive track record of several other awards & recognitions from Software AG, Cognizant has been a champion of Digital Transformation & Innovation with 600+ customer success stories involving Software AG over 9+ Years. Cognizant has 650+ Software AG technology experts with 200+ certifications servicing 80+ Software AG customers, and providing NextGen IT industry solutions powered by Software AG – making Cognizant the partner of choice for customers in their Digital Integration & Process Digitization journey. |
Software AG Digital Integration and Process Management Expertise |
Including: |
Software AG Technology Specializations |
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Software AG Competency Coverage |
Our integrated and interconnected coverage includes: |
Resources
Presentation | Integrated Process Management Practice |
Factsheet | Integrated Process Management (IPM) |
Customer Journey Mapping
Joint Proposition of Cognizant & Software AG
Our Customer Journey Design solution is an enterprise-wide collaborative process improvement environment focused on enabling the desired state customer experience. The solution aligns the defined cross-channel customer experience with underlying business process.
Customer Journey Design can help you design the technical and organizational transformations required to create a friction-less customer experience in support of those journeys. | ![]() |
Features and Benefits
Differentiated Experience | Highlights opportunities for meeting customer needs (or surprising and delighting shoppers) that provide a competitive advantage during the shopper journey |
Streamlining the Purchase Process | Reveals missed opportunities or points where the experience breaks and where a shopper might abandon their search or product selection. Ensures touch points are aligned with key customer needs and that customers are not over/under handled |
Functional Alignment | Creates a shared view of the customer experience across an organization. Ensures common vision that aligns different channels (online, retail, partner channel) and functions (marketing, sales, operations, customer service, product design) around a desired customer experience |
Marketing Mix | Ensures marketing tactics and engines are aligned and tailored to address the different influences, needs, sources of information, and media habits of different shopper scenarios at each stage of journey |
Customer Journey Mapping |
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Support
Bruno.Cardoso@cognizant.com | |
Phone |
+44 0 787 613 8546 |
Resources
Presentation | Customer Journey Mapping - Joint Proposition |
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Joint value proposition |
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Measureable benefits |
PRIMA - Process Insights through Monitoring & Analysis
Automated Process Discovery & Analysis
Enabling Enterprise Process Discovery & Analysis leveraging ARIS PPMEnabling analysis of people, process & application performance in an organization by leveraging data from disparate transactional systems. Facilitates identification of process issues and their root cause analysis – by marrying data to its underlying process components. Supports organizational analysis by providing insights in areas like – workforce management, process bottlenecks, compliance. | ![]() ![]() |
Features and Benefits
Reduced time to market |
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Better Results |
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Enhanced Incremental Benefits |
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Automated Process Discovery | Auto Discovery of process patterns across geographies, LOBs based on inputs (e.g. events) from transactional systems |
Standard Framework | Standard framework to import, read and interpret transactional data from disparate applications and gain end to end process visibility across those applications |
OOTB Metrics Package | Pre-defined standard Operational metrics (both generic & function specific) to gain insights into performance and compliance of process and people, applicable |
Framework Flexibility | Flexible framework to accommodate technology specific variations with minimal customization |
Visual RCA Dashboard | Dashboards with drill down capability to identify process metrics, exceptions, outliers and associate them with underlying process for RCA |
Lightweight solution | Lightweight solution with minimal infrastructure needs – leveraging ARIS PPM and Mashzone |
Discovery & Analysis as a Service | Insights anytime anywhere by providing analysis and discovery as-a-service |
Support
IPMConsulting@cognizant.com | |
Knowledge Base | https://www.cognizant.com/ |
Resources
Presentation | PRIMA |
Website | Website Cognizant Germany |
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Measuring Productivity |
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Measuring Cycle Time |
Modules |
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IoT enabled Smart Warehouse Solution
IoT enabled Smart Inventory Solution
Use case for complete IoT enabled Warehouse solution like - Space Allocation Optimization (3) - Automatic navigation to the inventory storage (4) - Inventory management and control (1,2 and 5) - IoT Enabled Smart Shipping (5) - Monitor Fork Lift Truck Usage and Health | ![]() |
Features and Benefits
End-to-End visibility on inventory | |
Real-time updates on inventory count | |
Real-time alerts for mismatch between inventory data in ERP and actual inventory in warehouse | |
Real time data received from sensors/beacons ensure that actual inventory levels are measured | |
Restocking process becomes more efficient and stock out losses are avoided | |
Automatic navigation & Space Optimization |
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Inventory management |
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Smart SHIPPING |
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Smart RECEIVING |
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Space Optimization UseCase |
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Automatic navigation |
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Resources
Presentation | IoT enabled Smart Warehouse Solution |
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Mashzone NextGen Real Time Dashboard |
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DIP Snapshot – Work Order Events |
Overview |
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Dynamic Pricing Solution
Dynamic Pricing with IoT
This solution is built using below Integration products and their respective components.
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Features and Benefits
Cognitive Commerce |
Ability to optimally adjust pricing based on real-time condition monitoring of goods, weather, inventory and other influencers |
Wastage Reduction |
Curb inventory wastage and optimize profits |
Inventory Optimization |
Ability to optimally adjust fulfillment models to suit current inventory levels and stock shelf life situation |
Safety |
Reduce errors with human monitoring and allay safety risks |
Business Challenge Addressed |
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Reduce Perishable Goods Wastage |
Dynamic pricing address Top causes for perishable good wastage
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Dynamic Pricing Solution Details |
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Resources
Presentation | Dynamic Pricing with IoT |
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Dynamic Pricing – Event Patterns ![]() |
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Dynamic Pricing – Temperature and Humidity Sensors |
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Dynamic Pricing – Offers |
Integration products and respective components |
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Industrial IoT - Predictive Maintenance Solution
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Features and Benefits
Reduction in Labor Cost |
Reduction in Equipment Cost |
Increase in Revenue | Reduction in Production Cost |
New Business Model | Increase in Employee Efficiency |
Edge Analytics - Solution Detail |
Process Variables of Extruder:
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Event Patterns |
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Resources
Presentation | Industrial IoT - Predictive Maintenance Solution |
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Edge Analytics – Sensor Feeds |
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Edge Analytics – Alarms |
Integration products and respective components |
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