About Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

Contact Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Editorial

Patrick McLaughlin

Serena Aburahma

Advertising and Sponsorship Sales

Peter Fretty - Vice President, Market Leader

Tim Carli - Business Development Manager

Brayden Hudspeth - Sales Development Representative

Subscriptions and Memberships

Subscribe to our newsletters and manage your subscriptions

Feedback/Problems

Send a message to our general in-box

 

Powered by Workiva, Cognizant's Award-Winning ESG Reporting Program Demonstrates the Move Toward Investor-Grade Disclosures

By: 3BL Media

Cognizant leads by example as companies navigate the SEC’s proposed climate disclosure mandates

SOURCE: Workiva

DESCRIPTION:

Global IT services and consulting company, Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), an $18.5B organization with more than 300,000 employees operating in 35 countries, has a proven track record for staying ahead of demand from stakeholders when it comes to disclosing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data. 

While the investment community has a long history of supporting corporate social responsibility (CSR), they began asking organizations to report more detailed ESG performance metrics. Though ESG disclosures were not required by regulators, the leadership team at Cognizant foresaw the growing importance of disclosing data in an efficient manner through software and data controls. The then newly appointed Chief Sustainability Officer, Sophia Mendelsohn, partnered with the company’s Corporate Reporting Department to create a program that would streamline organization-wide ESG reporting to deliver transparent, accurate and auditable non-financial disclosures.

Cognizant recognized that building a successful program was a heavy lift with little room for error that would need to rely on sophisticated technology to get the job done. Turning to Workiva Inc. (NYSE: WK), its current solution provider for SEC filings, the company implemented an automated reporting process that required limited human oversight.

Cognizant is working to eliminate disparate data sources and manual information compilation by integrating existing systems with the Workiva platform to pull in financial and non-financial data, such as carbon and human capital figures.

M. Aya Kiy, Associate Director of ESG at Cognizant said: “Parts of ESG reporting that previously took months to complete are now a streamlined, automated process for our organization. With Workiva guiding our team, we’ve been able to kick off the process faster and stay ahead of schedule on the parts of our reporting that relied on the Workiva platform.”

  In 2022, Verdantix, a leading ESG research and advisory firm, awarded Cognizant an Innovation Excellence Award for its ESG reporting work.

Cognizant has been able to more accurately disclose ESG data, as well as include more in-depth statistics. This has allowed the company to better understand its current metrics, where improvements can be made and track progress in line with the UN SDGs and the company’s net zero goal.

  Kiy added, “Through this process, we’ve uncovered our strengths and areas for growth, upleveled our team’s awareness and skill sets related to ESG reporting, and used technology to create a control environment that supports accurate and trustworthy reporting.”

Mendelsohn observed, “Regulation is moving toward deep, mandatory disclosure on climate change. We are using software to increase our confidence that our reporting process is well poised to meet evolving requirements.”

Cognizant uses the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) framework and Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations. They also aligned with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), disclosed to, and signed on to, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).

To learn more about Cognizant ESG, visit: https://www.cognizant.com/us/en/about-cognizant/esg

To learn more about the Workiva ESG solution, visit workiva.com/solutions/esg-reporting.

For the latest news and information, visit The Workiva Newsroom.

Tweet me: .@Cognizant’s award-winning #ESG reporting program, powered by @Workiva, aims to eliminate disparate data sources by pulling in financial and non-financial data, such as carbon and human capital figures, into one #cloud platform. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3rDErch

KEYWORDS: NYSE: WK, Workiva, Cognizant, esg, SEC’s proposed climate disclosure, csr, M. Aya Kiy, Verdantix, climate data, Financial disclosures

Cognizant recognized for award-winning ESG reporting program. Workiva news. Illustration of a double handled cup.

Stock Quote API & Stock News API supplied by www.cloudquote.io
Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes.
By accessing this page, you agree to the following
Privacy Policy and Terms Of Service.