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Software services major Cognizant has entered into a five-year deal from Germany's Vorwerk Group to transform its IT infrastructure and provide application services.

Vorwerk, an international direct-sales company, has subsidiaries in 24 countries with revenues of over $3.2 billion.

Through this transition, Vorwerk Group will be able to standardise and centralise its IT environment to a higher degree, while driving down costs, Cognizant said in a statement.

As part of the six-year engagement, Cognizant will provide Vorwerk with integrated service management, data centre, network and application management services

The services desk will be a central point of contact for the company, assisting staff in German, Italian, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech and Polish, it added

Our end-to-end capabilities in IT Infrastructure services, coupled with our deep understanding of Vorwerk's business, will help us establish best-in-class service delivery processes," Cognizant President of Technology Solutions Debashis Chatterjee said.

Aw: Arun kumar