Case Study: Cognizant achieves 20% faster test management and rapid provisioning with Informatica Test Data Management

Cognizant Improves Tester Productivity and Reduces Customer Application Testing Time by 20 Percent with Informatica

Cognizant, a $7.3B global IT, consulting, and business-process services firm with a 23,000-strong testing practice, faced scaling and compliance challenges from inefficient test data management. Its in‑house solution struggled to handle heterogeneous environments (SAP, Siebel, mainframe, cloud) and left testers spending excessive time preparing data instead of testing, slowing development and increasing costs and risk.

Cognizant standardized on Informatica Test Data Management (Informatica Data Subset and Data Masking) as part of its TD Maxim service to create secure, reusable, masked test data subsets across varied sources. The solution cut total test management time by ~20%, slashed a U.S. retailer’s data provisioning time by over 95% and cycle time by 33%, and delivered an 80% provisioning-time and 60% data-size reduction for a benefits application—reducing storage needs, improving compliance, and accelerating time-to-market.

Cognizant

Pradeepkumar Govindasamy

Director