INTTRA Selects Cognizant to Drive Operational Efficiencies Across Global Ocean Freight and Ocean Supply Chains, and Provide a Uniform Experience Across Multiple Trading Partners

Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, today announced it has been selected as a strategic partner by INTTRA, a leading provider of e-commerce solutions for the ocean freight industry, to streamline INTTRA's applications and quality assurance portfolios. As part of the multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement, Cognizant will provide a range of application development, application maintenance, testing, and quality assurance services using the managed services model.

"The global ocean shipping industry is going through significant structural changes. Our goal is to provide the best and most useful products to our customers to help them streamline the processing of ocean freight, and optimize global ocean supply chains," said Ivan Latanision, Senior Vice President of Product Management at INTTRA.

"In Cognizant, we found a strategic partner with the breadth of expertise and global footprint that would help us create products that will make a difference to our customers' process efficiencies and positively impact their bottom lines. Specifically, we were impressed with their domain knowledge, process methodologies, the managed services model, and their roadmap to help us in our transformational journey to becoming a global information provider."