Cognizant, a global leader in digital engineering and enterprise cloud services, has announced a multi-year extension of its strategic partnership with Kohler Co., the globally recognized kitchen and bath products manufacturer known for sustainable innovation. With this renewed agreement, both companies are strengthening their long-standing collaboration to build the next phase of Kohler’s digital and operational foundation, ensuring it remains resilient, scalable, and future-ready.
Building on years of successful collaboration, the extended partnership now brings together advanced cloud management, modernized infrastructure, and AI-driven security and observability capabilities. As a result, Kohler will be better positioned to support long-term growth while accelerating innovation across its global operations. This evolution marks a significant step forward in reinforcing the digital backbone that underpins Kohler’s enterprise strategy.
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Previously, Cognizant played a pivotal role in modernizing Kohler’s global digital ecosystem. For instance, the two organizations worked closely to scale application and infrastructure capabilities and successfully support the carve-out and launch of Kohler Energy as a standalone business. Over time, this partnership has delivered measurable outcomes, including improved system reliability, faster software delivery cycles, and expanded automation. Consequently, Kohler has gained greater agility, efficiency, and readiness to adapt to changing market demands.
Under the renewed agreement, Cognizant will continue to co-advance Kohler’s end-to-end digital landscape. This includes enterprise systems, Kohler.com and digital customer experiences, data and analytics platforms, data center operations, end-user services, cloud environments, and cybersecurity. Moreover, the expanded scope introduces enhanced cloud management capabilities and next-generation AI solutions, such as Cognizant Neuro IT Operations. These technologies are designed to improve observability, strengthen system reliability, and enable deeper operational insight, ultimately allowing Kohler to harness continuous, generative-AI-driven innovation.
“We’re excited to deepen the strategic collaboration to co-architect Kohler’s next-generation digital foundation,” said Anup Prasad, Senior Vice President and Head of Consumer Business Unit, Cognizant. “Over the past five years, we’ve proven the strength of our collaboration by driving major gains in reliability and elevating Kohler’s customer experience. With this renewed agreement, we’re bringing advanced AI capabilities across the digital ecosystem, including generative AI, to help further enhance performance, resilience, and innovation. Together, we’re shaping the next generation of Kohler’s digital future.”
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Similarly, Kohler emphasized the business value of the renewed alliance. “This renewed partnership reflects our shared commitment to leveraging technology in pursuit of operational and business excellence,” said Eric Tabor, Chief Digital Officer, Kohler. “Cognizant’s advanced platforms, digital engineering capabilities, and deep domain expertise enable us to respond more effectively to business needs while enhancing productivity and delivering greater value to our customers. Together, we continue to fulfill our mission: to help people live gracious, healthy, and sustainable lives.”
Overall, this extended partnership reinforces a shared focus on resilience, performance, and customer experience. By investing in next-generation cloud, enterprise AI, and generative AI technologies, Cognizant and Kohler aim to keep the organization at the forefront of digital transformation while continuously driving operational innovation across its global ecosystem.
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