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Cognizant Gets Multi-Year, Multi-Million Dollar Contract From INTTRA

By TechTaffy Desk

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Cognizant has been selected as a strategic partner by INTTRA, a 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.

Ivan Latanision (Senior vice president, Product Management, INTTRA): 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.

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