TEANECK, New Jersey and EMMAUS, Pennsylvania, Sep. 15, 2009 (PR Newswire Europe) -- v>

- Global Media Company Leverages Cognizant's Advanced RIM 2.0 Remote Infrastructure Management Platform to Ensure Service Quality Excellence

Cognizant (http://www.cognizant.com/)(Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, has announced the successful deployment of its Remote Infrastructure Management platform, or RIM 2.0, at Rodale Inc. (http://www.rodale.com/), a global media company known for health and wellness lifestyle titles such as Prevention, Men's Health, and Women's Health.

Rodale selected Cognizant to transform its global IT infrastructure services. As a result, Rodale has increased operational efficiency, reduced total cost of ownership, enhanced the customer experience, and has better aligned its infrastructure to meet business needs. Cognizant's RIM 2.0 platform proactively monitors and manages Rodale's core IT infrastructure that houses business-critical applications, leveraging Cognizant's OnTarget(TM) ITIL-based service delivery framework for cost-effective operations management and service quality excellence.

"Cognizant brought Rodale deep expertise, proactive guidance, and a metrics-driven culture that will allow us to take our infrastructure to a new level," said Ken Citron, Chief Information Officer and EVP, Publishing Operations. "Their willingness to build a true partnership and solve problems has been invaluable."

"We believe Rodale's selection of Cognizant speaks to our domain expertise and our ability to seamlessly leverage an ITIL-compliant platform across a global delivery network, taking remote infrastructure management to the next level," said Robert Boles, Vice President, IT Infrastructure Services at Cognizant. "Our RIM 2.0 framework enables Rodale not only to reduce costs significantly, but also to achieve greater visibility into operations, enhanced workflow automation, overall operational maturity improvements, and highly flexible sourcing options with our productized managed services."

In an independent April 2009 report by Forrester Research, Inc., "The Forrester Wave(TM): Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2009," Cognizant was named a leader.

About Rodale Inc.

Rodale is a global media company with a heritage, mission, and authority dedicated to the health and wellness of the individual, community, and planet. Through a broad portfolio of leading media properties, Rodale reaches more than 70 million people around the world through multiple distribution channels, including magazines, books, online, e-commerce, direct-to-consumer, and video.