What Servian’s acquisition says about the A/NZ services market What Servian’s acquisition says about the A/NZ services market Representing something greater than Cognizant's own aspirations Linus Lai (IDC) Credit: IDC US IT services provider Cognizant’s recent acquisition of Servian’s entire workforce shows just how important Australian and New Zealand businesses are for the expansion plans of global services companies. Earlier in January, Cognizant snapped up the Sydney-headquartered data analytics consultancy firm for an undisclosed amount — including its workforce of over 500 across Australia and New Zealand — and claimed that the buy was part of its strategy to increase its expertise of data and artificial intelligence (AI), digital engineering, cloud and internet of things (IoT) worldwide.