March 9, 2026 – Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), a leading global technology company, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in 2025 Information Services Group (ISG) Provider Lens^TM Oracle Cloud and Technology Ecosystem Report. ISG (Nasdaq: III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm, aims to understand key industry challenges and assess service provider capabilities to address unmet enterprise needs.

In the Oracle Cloud and Technology Ecosystem 2025 study, ISG evaluates the service maturity level and technical competence of Oracle’s top- performing partner across 3 quadrants: Professional Services, Managed Services, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Solutions and Capabilities. Leaders are noted to have a comprehensive product and service offering, a strong market presence and established competitive position. According to ISG, Leaders are strongly positioned to win business and represent innovative strength and competitive stability.

Professional Services

This quadrant evaluates providers that offer an end-to-end approach to supporting organizations in leveraging Oracle Solutions and deliver a suite of consulting and implementation services. Providers in this quadrant bring industry expertise and a certified talent pool, ensuring seamless integration within complex IT environments. “With comprehensive full-stack expertise, top cloud certifications, a strong AI investment strategy and proven industry solutions, Cognizant leads in the Oracle professional services market,” said Siddharth Idnani, Distinguished Analyst at ISG. As one of the largest global Oracle partners for multi-pillar cloud implementations with over 8,850 Oracle cloud specialists and ranking third globally in Oracle Cloud certifications, “Cognizant demonstrates broad and deep technical expertise.”

Building on this foundation, Cognizant’s AI Builder approach aims to help clients systematically embed AI across their Oracle Cloud journeys—from strategy and design through implementation and operations. By combining reusable accelerators, industry‑aligned use cases, and responsible AI practices, Cognizant helps enable enterprises to move from experimentation to scaled, value‑driven AI adoption. This approach strengthens Oracle‑based transformations with measurable business outcomes powered by data and AI.

Managed Services

In the Managed Services quadrant, ISG evaluates providers based on their Oracle Portfolio specializations. Managed Services providers are transcending basic IT support, becoming strategic partners that deliver specific business outcomes for enterprises. In 2025, Cognizant’s holistic, outcome-driven approach toward digital transformations was recognized by Oracle with the Oracle Transformation Breakthrough award (Global Service Partner – Technology/Cloud). ISG’s Distinguished Analyst, Siddharth Idnani, praised Cognizant, noting that “Cognizant’s strategic investments in automated service delivery, industry-leading frameworks and a focus on client outcomes have consistently translated into significant market impact as an Oracle MSP.”

OCI Solutions and Capabilities

According to ISG, the year 2025 marked a pivotal year, elevating OCI’s role as a key force in AI, multicloud and hybrid innovation. In this quadrant, ISG assesses providers specializing in OCI and offering support through IaaS and PaaS models. “Cognizant has gained prominence as a leading OCI service provider in the U.S. by intensely focusing on the market, aggressively building capabilities and consistently prioritizing talent retention aligned with GenAI use cases,” said Siddharth Idnani. The report further highlights that Cognizant “enhances automated cost control and granular governance, accelerates migrations with provisioning and database automation, and designs multicloud and GenAI- aligned architectures, including private and hybrid OCI deployments,” making Cognizant a leader in this quadrant. Oracle also awarded Cognizant the OCI Breakthrough award for North America (NA Service Partner Technology/Cloud), highlighting its progress as a top partner in the Oracle ecosystem.

“We are honored to be recognized as a Leader in the 2025 ISG Provider Lens™ Oracle Cloud and Technology Ecosystem report,” said Suraj Jacob, Global Practice Head, Oracle Practice at Cognizant. “This recognition reflects our deep, long-standing partnership with Oracle and our continued investments in cloud, data, AI and industry-aligned solutions. At Cognizant, we remain focused on helping clients modernize, innovate and realize tangible business value from their Oracle Cloud journeys—across professional services, managed services and OCI solutions. We see this placement as strong validation of our strategy and a motivator to continue raising the bar for our clients globally.” “Through our AI Builder approach, we are helping clients operationalize AI responsibly and at scale on Oracle Cloud—turning innovation into tangible business value.”

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About ISG Provider Lens™  

The ISG Provider Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical, data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world experience and observations of ISG’s global advisory team. Enterprises will find a wealth of detailed data and market analysis to help guide their selection of appropriate sourcing partners, while ISG advisors use the reports to validate their own market knowledge and make recommendations to ISG’s enterprise clients. The research currently covers providers offering their services across multiple geographies globally.