Cognizant adopts Anthropic’s Claude; to drive AI transformation

Bengaluru: Nasdaq-listed Cognizant will now use AI research and development company Anthropic's Claude to help its enterprise customers and internal teams move from AI experimentation to scaled business outcomes. Claude is a next-generation AI assistant built by Anthropic.

"This combines the Claude family of models and agentic tooling with Cognizant’s engineering platforms and industry blueprints to help deliver measurable impact at enterprise scale," Cognizant said on Tuesday.

The IT services firm plans to align its software engineering and platform offerings with Anthropic capabilities – including Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and the Agent SDK – so clients can integrate AI with existing data and applications, orchestrate multi-step work with human oversight, and more effectively manage performance, risk and spend.

“Enterprises are moving beyond simple productivity gains toward a more connected, agentic future,” said Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant.

“By pairing Anthropic’s Claude models and agentic tooling with Cognizant’s suite of platforms and industry expertise, we will help clients build the foundations of an agentified enterprise where intelligent systems collaborate with people to accelerate modernisation, engineering and industry transformation. We are equally excited to apply Anthropic’s technology to help us drive these transformation goals internally at Cognizant," he added.

"Companies require trusted AI that combines cutting-edge performance with safety and reliability, which is why hundreds of thousands of businesses trust Claude.

We're demonstrating this at scale by rolling out Claude to up to 350,000 Cognizant employees and helping our joint clients do the same," Paul Smith, Chief Commercial Officer at Anthropic, said.