Cognizant announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to help global enterprises become AI-powered frontier companies: organizations that redefine work, unlock new value, and responsibly scale innovation.
Under this agreement, Cognizant and Microsoft will build industrial-grade AI solutions together, sell globally together, and collaborate on large-scale deals in key industries, including financial services, healthcare and life sciences, retail, and manufacturing.
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The partnership will integrate agentic AI and Copilot supported by Work IQ, Foundry IQ, and Fabric IQ capabilities into mission-critical workflows, accelerating productivity, customer experience, and operational resilience. This partnership also expands on the Cognizant Neuro AI Suite of offerings that Cognizant brings to market that leverage Microsoft cloud and AI services.
“Today, AI supports and shapes every transformation program we undertake,” said Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant. “We will build scalable solutions together, sell globally together, and collaborate on large deals that deliver measurable results for our customers by aligning this partnership with our three-vector AI builder strategy.
Kumar continued, “By combining Microsoft’s trusted cloud and AI with Cognizant’s industry platforms, we are strongly positioned to help customers solve the last-mile challenge of scaling AI across the enterprise.”
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Cognizant will scale adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot to delivery and consulting teams, while training employees on Microsoft Azure, Azure AI Foundry, and related technologies, creating an agile, AI-fluent workforce. The partnership will also leverage Cognizant’s proprietary platforms, including TriZetto, Skygrade, and FlowSourceTM, to deliver industry-specific developments and modernize software engineering at scale.
“Cognizant’s ability to combine deep industry expertise with bold innovation makes them an excellent partner as we innovate together to help enterprises become AI-powered frontier firms,” said Judson Althoff, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft’s commercial operations. “By combining Microsoft’s reliable cloud and agentic AI capabilities with Cognizant’s platforms and delivery scale, we will accelerate the creation of industry-specific solutions that are embedded in the workflow and unlock transformative value for our joint customers around the world.”
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Source – PR Newswire
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