Cognizant to Implement Anthropic's Claude AI for 350,000 Employees
Ted Hisokawa Nov 06, 2025 18:35
Cognizant partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude AI to 350,000 employees, enhancing AI adoption and enterprise transformation across key functions.
Cognizant, a prominent information technology consulting firm, has announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic to deploy Claude, an advanced AI system, to up to 350,000 employees globally. This move aims to transition enterprise customers and internal teams from AI experimentation to tangible production outcomes, according to Anthropic.
Accelerating AI Adoption
The initiative will see Claude integrated across Cognizant's corporate functions, engineering, and delivery teams. By leveraging Claude Code, Cognizant aims to accelerate coding tasks, testing, documentation, and DevOps workflows. The deployment is expected to enhance productivity and streamline AI integration with existing data and applications, allowing for better performance management, risk assessment, and cost control.
Enhancing Enterprise Transformation
Paul Smith, Chief Commercial Officer at Anthropic, highlighted the significance of this partnership, emphasizing the combination of frontier AI with domain expertise and implementation capabilities. This collaboration is expected to propel AI adoption in the enterprise sector, providing trusted AI solutions that balance performance with safety and reliability.
Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant, expressed excitement about applying Anthropic’s technology to drive transformation goals internally. The partnership aims to foster a more connected, agentic enterprise where intelligent systems collaborate with humans, accelerating modernization and industry transformation.
Addressing Enterprise Challenges
The partnership is designed to address critical challenges faced by CIOs, such as managing legacy code and optimizing engineering resources. By deploying Claude models, Claude Code, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and the Agent SDK, Cognizant seeks to enhance software engineering productivity, modernize legacy systems, and develop industry-specific solutions.
Key solutions include deploying Claude and Claude Code with Cognizant's Flowsource™ Platform to accelerate software development processes, modernizing legacy codebases, and designing domain-specific AI agents using Cognizant Neuro® AI Multi-Agent Orchestration.
Future Prospects
Cognizant plans to engage clients through workshops, reference patterns, and platform integrations, helping teams identify high-value use cases for AI deployment. This initiative underscores Cognizant's commitment to advancing responsible AI practices aligned with enterprise governance needs and open standards.
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