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Cognizant Acquires Enterprise DevOps, Cloud Transformation Consultancy Contino (HITS)

Professional services firm Cognizant announced Oct. 16 it will acquire London-based tech consultancy Contino, which helps clients with their digital moves via a combination of enterprise DevOps methodologies, cloud-native development, and advanced data platforms.

The acquisition gives Cognizant a deeper digital engineering and modernization team across the U.S., U.K. and Australia, with Contino and its approximate 350 employees specializing in building cloud platforms and migrating applications and legacy environments to the cloud; implementing enterprise DevOps to provide new approaches to software development; modernizing IT security through DevSecOps; and building data platforms and implementing advanced analytics.

“We look forward to welcoming Contino’s talented team to Cognizant,” said Brian Humphries, CEO of Cognizant. “The DevOps approach to cloud migration, core modernization and cloud security is reshaping how enterprises in all industries are building their infrastructures. This new set of holistic cloud capabilities from Contino will enable us to offer and more readily deploy transformative cloud-based solutions.”

Cognizant’s acquisition of Contino, which is a global premier partner with Amazon Web Services and brings expertise in both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

“Joining Cognizant enables us to expand and scale our offerings globally, build on our tremendous success, and provide an even richer portfolio of cloud strategy and engineering capabilities,” said Matt Farmer, co-founder and CEO of Contino. “We are thrilled to be joining an organization that shares our rich expertise in cloud technologies, DevOps, digital engineering, and data analytics. Our focus has always been on supporting the enterprise and their transformation using the ‘Squad Model.’ With this approach, we support our enterprise clients at every step, from engineering through to communicating the benefits of their journey, all for ultimate success.”