Cognizant reveals an enhanced strategic alliance with Anthropic, joining a select group of Global Premier Partners within the Claude Partner Network. The strengthened relationship develops from the collaboration revealed in late 2025.

The broadened collaboration bridges the divide between model potential and businesses' capacity to achieve results. Bridging that gap involves more than just enhancing model ability.

Incorporating AI into existing enterprise systems requires an understanding of domain context, engineering expertise, and the scale of delivery. Cognizant fulfills that role as an AI Builder.

Ravi Kumar S, CEO, Cognizant says, "AI capability is rising faster than enterprises can absorb it, and that gap is the defining problem of this moment. Our role is to be the bridge. We bring the industry context, the engineering scale and the trust frameworks that use Claude to deliver production outcomes inside the most demanding enterprise environments. This partnership with Anthropic is about doing that for clients who need AI they can rely on, not just experiment with."

"Deepening our partnership with Cognizant will help more companies harness AI's growing capability and deploy it in real, practical ways for their businesses. From manufacturing to the life sciences, Cognizant is bringing Claude into the everyday work of some of the world's most demanding industries — the kinds of contexts where AI can demonstrate its greatest value for humanity," says Daniela Amodei, Co-Founder and President of Anthropic.

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Cognizant is currently utilizing Claude in client projects across various regulated sectors, achieving tangible results. In manufacturing, Cognizant developed an operational AI-driven customer experience portal for a worldwide manufacturer within six months of the project start.

In the life sciences field, Cognizant developed an autonomous contract-intelligence system for a biopharmaceutical firm, which has reduced contract review time by as much as 40 percent and increased extraction accuracy to over 88 percent in that implementation.

In the insurance sector, Cognizant created a risk-navigation tool that converted hours of manual research into approximately one minute for underwriters assessing comparable accounts, saving each underwriter around eight hours weekly in that implementation. Further efforts are ongoing in the financial services, telecommunications, and various other sectors.

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Cognizant presently possesses the highest number of certifications on Claude worldwide, highlighting the extent of investment companies are committing as spending on AI services grows significantly beyond conventional technology budgets.

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Cognizant's collaboration with Travelport highlights this shift, with Claude expected to be integrated across Travelport's software delivery process. Leveraging its large context window, Claude will analyze codebases at scale to uncover embedded business logic, helping improve the development, testing, and maintenance of travel retailing and distribution platforms.