Nasdaq-listed Cognizant on Friday marked 25 years of innovation, growth and success as a trusted partner and guide to clients around the world as they’ve moved from the mainframe-era to building end-to-end digital businesses. To commemorate this milestone anniversary, Cognizant executives and employees will take part in Nasdaq market opening bell ceremonies in New York City and Chennai, India.

Over its first 25 years, Cognizant has succeeded by successfully identifying emerging client needs, responding with new capabilities and scaling them into growth opportunities. Sensing and responding to market needs enabled the company to grow from a 200-person information technology firm focused on software development and maintenance in 1994 to a Fortune 200 company and a digital leader employing more than 270,000 worldwide today.

Francisco D’Souza, Cognizant’s co-founder, Vice Chairman and CEO, said that when he looks back on the last quarter century my greatest source of pride and satisfaction is the inherent importance of the work Cognizant does to help solve some of the world’s most complex challenges and the millions of lives they’ve changed for the better. He sees their 25th anniversary marking the beginning of a step-change in our relevance to clients and in our impact on the world. He predicts they will be doing more—much more—to embed society’s challenges and needs into our priorities. Fundamentally, they are a company of creative problem solvers with deep knowledge of how the world works. They’re constantly developing, improving, and renewing their knowledge, which makes them a force to be reckoned with, he said.