[Goanet] Francisco D'Souza: COO of Cognizant Technology Solutions

[D'Souza, Avelino]

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The Hindu
Monday, Apr 10, 2006
Krishnan Thiagarajan
Bharat Kumar

Cognizant Technology Solutions on software trends and the company's
strategies

As an astute observer of trends in the software industry, Francisco D'
Souza, Chief Operating Officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions,
engaged in a freewheeling discussion with eWorld recently. Excerpts:

Do you think application development and maintenance is heavily
penetrated for the industry as a whole and is likely to get commoditised
faster than expected?=20

At this point, we think that it largely depends on how we classify these
services. We have a healthy pipeline of services around testing, data
warehousing or package implementation. We do not know whether it is
classified by Nasscom-McKinsey as applications or systems integration.
If we look at the study closely, systems integration and IT
infrastructure are significantly under-penetrated and those are the new
engines of growth.
By the way, speaking about commoditisation, I am not entirely sure if
application development is something that becomes commoditised over
time.  There is no evidence of it in the past.

I think commoditisation occurs when the market essentially looks at
everybody's services or products and says that they are virtually the
same, whether I buy from producer A or B. That I do not think is likely
to happen in application development.

In application development, there is capability; there is
differentiation among firms and investments made by them. There is a
difference between the way Cognizant does application development as
compared to any of the global firms. You will see differentiation among
the firms in those dimensions.

Full text at:
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2006/04/10/stories/20060410001703
00.htm

More at:

http://www.cognizant.com/aboutus/aboutus_exec_frank.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_D'Souza


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Avelino

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