Cognizant eyes $1.5-billion revenue from TriZetto

Analyst believe that the company's 2014 deal was an outlier in its overall acquisition strategy

Cognizant Technology Solutions is eyeing $1.5 billion of potential revenue cumulatively from TriZetto Corporation, a health care information technology software and solutions firm it acquired in 2014. A larger acquisition like this would offer greater growth impacts to the company, said an analyst.

The acquisition, which analysts term an outlier in the company’s overall acquisition strategy, has opened a market to 245,000 health care providers, 350 payers (insurance firms) and 180 million lives. 

“Trizetto was the outlier in this strategy, as Cognizant spent nearly $3 billion for a well-established platform provider in the health care market, said Ryan Blanchard, research analyst with