Cognizant Acquisitions List: 19 Technology Consulting Buyouts -

Cognizant remains active on the M&A (merger and acquisition) front. The global IT consulting firm typically looks to acquire IT services businesses that focus on one to four strategic areas -- such as:

The Internet of Things (IoT);

cloud;

artificial intelligence and analytics; and

software product engineering.

Moreover, the buyout targets typically focus on such platforms as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Workday, among others. Noteworthy Cognizant acquisitions include:

19. December 2022: Cognizant acquired Utegration.

18. November 2022: AustinCSI for data analytics expertise.

17. November 2022: Workday partner OneSource Virtual.

16. December 2021: Software consultancy Devbridge.

15. August 2021: DevOps software talent from Hunter Technical Resources.

14. July 2021: TQS Integration for smart factory, industrial automation, life sciences and digital transformation expertise.

13. March 2021: ESG Mobility for autonomous car expertise.

12. January 2021: Magenic Technologies for custom software development across AWS, Azure, VMware Tanzu, and Google Cloud Platform.

11. January 2021: Servian, an enterprise data analytics consulting firm.

10. January 2021: ServiceNow partner Linium.

9. December 2020: AWS cloud partner Inawisdom for end-to-end cloud-native AI & machine learning solutions.

8. October 2020: Bright Wolf for Microsoft Azure & AWS cloud expertise in the IIoT area.