Collaboration leverages Gemini Enterprise and Cognizant’s proprietary platforms to help clients automate core business functions and enhance service delivery.

Cognizant announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate enterprise adoption of agentic AI and help clients automate key business functions to enhance productivity. Under the expanded partnership, Cognizant will make a strategic investment in Gemini Enterprise, with the goal of helping clients accelerate agentic AI deployment and adoption, including through deployment via Cognizant’s Neuro^® AI and Agent Foundry offerings.

As AI agents continue to prove their value as cutting-edge autonomous actors within the enterprise, many organizations are seeking a structured framework that enables seamless interaction and coordination among agents tasked with different roles. Cognizant’s investment in Gemini Enterprise positions it as a leading implementation partner, enabling clients to build intelligent agents that automate tasks, generate insights and drive operational efficiency, while operating within client-defined governance frameworks to support alignment with their strategic, regulatory and ethical priorities.

“Agentic AI is emerging as a defining trend in enterprise transformation,” said Annadurai Elango, President, Core Technologies and Insights, Cognizant. “Our deepening partnership with Google Cloud and the integration of Gemini Enterprise with Cognizant Neuro^® AI and Agent Foundry will, we believe, help clients activate their data and workflows through intelligent, trusted, and scalable systems to accelerate business impact.”

Under the expanded partnership, Cognizant will collaborate with Google Cloud to leverage Gemini Enterprise, Vertex AI, and Customer Engagement Suite to drive measurable business outcomes across industries. Gemini Enterprise is designed to bring the full power of Google’s AI to every employee. It provides access to Google’s state of the art Gemini models, a consistent UX for enterprise users accessing AI agents and a solid foundation for centrally visualizing, securing, auditing and governing AI agents.

Use cases include enhancing point-of-sale experiences in retail, improving schedule reliability and reducing costs in shipping, and transforming business process operations through AI-powered processes in sectors such as hospitality and insurance.

"Gemini Enterprise brings the best of Google AI to every workflow and every employee," said Victor Morales, VP of GSI Partnerships, Google Cloud. "Our expanded partnership with Cognizant will help accelerate adoption of this powerful platform, combining deep expertise and advanced AI technology to provide customers with the enterprise-ready agentic solutions needed to solve critical business challenges."

Google Cloud’s support for third-party models on the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol is central to Cognizant’s ability to deliver enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions in complex, multi-cloud environments. Cognizant aims to enable enterprises to build advanced multi-agent systems and connect them via A2A with agents running on other enterprise platforms. Clients will then have access to these capabilities through Gemini Enterprise, enabling end-to-end orchestration, governance and real-world usability at scale.

Cognizant sets itself apart in the industry by embedding Gemini Enterprise into its proprietary platforms – including Cognizant Neuro^® AI and Cognizant Agent Foundry, and by building a robust ecosystem of agentic solutions. During a recent Google Cloud hackathon, Cognizant developed over 200 AI agents addressing key industry business processes, now available through Agent Foundry. With over 60,000 professionals trained on Google AI technologies, Cognizant offers a reusable catalog of agents and pre-built templates for rapid deployment.

As part of its investment, Cognizant has procured enterprise-wide licenses to deploy Gemini Enterprise across delivery centers and Google experience zones and plans to invest in skilling 20,000 associates across the newly launched Google Cloud Centers of Excellence. These deployments are intended to support advanced use cases in AI-led operations, risk and compliance and employee experience, and generate reusable agentic solutions designed to improve internal processes and client outcomes.

Additionally, clients stand to benefit from curated workshops, rapid prototyping in Cognizant’s global AI studios and innovation labs (Amsterdam, Bangalore, New York City, San Francisco), and access to Cognizant’s agentic accelerators, which aim to help clients drive faster time-to-value and build scalable agent networks across industries based on client-defined goals and implementation parameters.