"Aligning our engineering expertise with Cognizant's capabilities will help all of our businesses unlock tremendous value. By leveraging organisational synergies and next-generation technologies, we will be able to improve performance efficiencies as well as attain the next level of innovation and market leadership.

This partnership will help us bring our businesses in line with global industry benchmarks and increase our ability to develop future-ready products based on digital and other cutting-edge technologies."

"As multiple stakeholders replace traditional value chains and embedded technologies prepare to unleash the next wave of smarter products and services, there has never been a more exciting time for technology innovation in the manufacturing and engineering industry," said R. Chandrasekaran, Executive Vice Chairman, Cognizant India.

"We are pleased to partner with Escorts in helping them realise their vision for innovation, and look forward to helping them build a data-driven digital enterprise. By developing new collaborative and real-time capabilities straddling shop floor and supply chain, Escorts will be able to drive transformation across products, people, processes and infrastructure."

The Escorts Group is among India's leading engineering conglomerates operating in high growth sectors of agri machinery, material handling and construction equipment, railway equipment and auto components.

Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.

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