Cognizant and OpenAI team up to reshape enterprise software engineering with Codex

Bengaluru: Cognizant on Tuesday announced that it has been named among a select group of partners chosen by OpenAI to scale the impact of Codex across enterprise clients worldwide. Cognizant is embedding Codex directly into its engineering workflows across its Software Engineering Group.

OpenAI is working with a group of leading global systems integrators chosen for their ability to deploy and scale Codex inside complex enterprise environments and deliver the services enabled by those capabilities to clients.

"The best engineering organisations of the next decade will not be defined by how many engineers they have, but by how effectively human judgment and AI capability work as one," said Rajesh Varrier, President – Global Operations and Chairman & Managing Director, Cognizant India. "We are embedding Codex as a partner in how our engineers work – handling code generation, refactoring, testing and documentation – so our teams can apply human judgment where it is needed most. OpenAI brings frontier intelligence. Cognizant brings enterprise scale, deep industry expertise and the governance rigor that industry requires."

The company said its engineers are already applying Codex across the software development lifecycle in client engagements, including AI and machine learning model development, code refactoring, agentic solution development and legacy system modernisation.

"Codex is becoming a powerful workspace for managing agents across software development and business workflows. As enterprises move quickly to put Codex to work, we’re working with leading partners like Cognizant to help more organisations move from early usage to repeatable deployment," said Denise Dresser, Chief Revenue Officer, OpenAI. "Cognizant's deep expertise in large-scale software transformation enables enterprises to deploy Codex across areas like legacy code modernisation, code review automation, vulnerability detection, and application development, while extending its impact to the systems and workflows where knowledge work gets done. We will work together to bring Codex to organisations worldwide."

Through this partnership, Cognizant and OpenAI aim to work together to bring AI-powered engineering, modernisation and security compliance capabilities to clients across industries, with a focus on reducing complexity, accelerating delivery and building the governance rigour necessary for enterprise-scale adoption.