Highlights:

  • With AI-driven strategies in place to improve Cognizant’s enterprise modernization and application management services, AI plays a significant role in the offering.
  • Skygrade will be able to utilize Azure capabilities like Azure Migrate to offer a thorough evaluation of a customer’s data estate and suggest the best migration strategy.

The provider of IT services, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., unveiled a version of Cognizant Skygrade specifically designed to assist Microsoft Azure users in switching to contemporary, cloud-native architectures.

A multi-hybrid cloud and edge management platform called Cognizant Skygrade assists businesses in streamlining their cloud management processes. The program, which went live in April 2023, enables companies to update their vital apps.

Customers are able to construct distinct digital experiences utilizing Azure’s generative and responsible artificial intelligence technology, cloud-scale data, and contemporary application platforms with the Azure-optimized version. For clients who have invested in Azure, it provides a range of tools, procedures, and standards, including assistance with cloud migration and modernization with Azure for the migration and modernization of intelligent applications.

With AI-driven strategies in place to improve Cognizant’s enterprise modernization and application management services, AI plays a significant role in the offering. A complete reference model of the Cognizant Skygrade for Azure stack, complete with pertinent demos, is also available to users.

Furthermore, Skygrade will utilize Azure tools like Azure Migrate to evaluate a customer’s data estate thoroughly and suggest the best migration strategy. Skygrade for Azure uses Azure’s Cloud Native to help companies gain cost savings, meet sustainability targets, and open new business prospects across industries when combined with Cognizant’s enterprise modernization.

Marianne Roling, Vice President of global system integrators at Microsoft, said, “As one of our most trusted partners, Cognizant has invested significantly to build capabilities and skills on the Microsoft Platform, making them uniquely positioned to engage on the most complex migration and modernization projects.”

Mariesa Coughanour, head of automation advisory services at Cognizant, reported in 2021, discussing Cognizant’s robotic process automation journey and how the company commenced working on automation in 2018.