Recognition highlights Cognizant’s AI-led, engineering-driven transformation capabilities, including its three-vector AI strategy, Agent Foundry platform and strategic ecosystem investments across NVIDIA, Anthropic, Palantir and Palo Alto Networks

May 22, 2026 – Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the High-Tech Digital Services 2026 RadarView™ report, published by Avasant, a leading global management consulting and research firm. Avasant evaluated 74 service providers, recognizing 8 as Leaders that delivered the most value to the market over the past 12 months across practice maturity and future-proofing dimensions. Cognizant’s classification as a Leader reflects the breadth and depth of its AI-led, engineering-driven approach to high-tech digital transformation.

In its profile of Cognizant, Avasant recognized the company for driving high-tech transformation through agentic AI frameworks and a strong partner ecosystem, supported by global delivery expansion and workforce enablement to mitigate supply chain disruptions. The report highlights Cognizant’s portfolio of over 50 industry-specific IP assets, combining proprietary platforms and ecosystem partnerships to enable end-to-end product-to-platform transformation. Key platforms cited include Flowsource™, which embeds generative AI across the software development life cycle (SDLC) to support and automate selected aspects of software development; the Neuro^® AI suite, which scales AI adoption through reusable accelerators and multi-agent frameworks; and APEx, an IIoT-enabled Industry 4.0 platform for plant maintenance and operations.

The report also highlights Cognizant’s three-vector AI strategy as a key differentiator: Vector 1 enhances generative AI-led engineering; Vector 2 accelerates AI product innovation; and Vector 3 enables agentic transformation. Underpinning this strategy is the Agent Foundry, a modular, AI-first orchestration platform built on the BASIS framework, designed to help enterprises design, build and scale autonomous agents responsibly across the enterprise. Together, these capabilities are intended to help high-tech enterprises accelerate intelligent product development, industrialize AI adoption, and scale agentic transformation across engineering, product, and workflows.

Avasant’s recognition also points to Cognizant’s significant investments in innovation infrastructure. The company has opened five new innovation labs and centers across the globe. The acquisition of 3Cloud further strengthens Vector 2 by accelerating cloud-native, enterprise-grade AI solutions at scale. Cognizant’s workforce enablement efforts—including over 1,000 professionals with experience in agentic AI and 21,000 professionals with generative AI skills—and its Synapse Skilling Initiative, which targets training two million digitally skilled individuals by 2030, were also noted as key investment and innovation drivers. The report further notes Cognizant’s blockchain-based traceability solutions, fulfillment control towers, AI-driven decision analytics and geo-diversified delivery capabilities, which strengthen supply chain resilience by supporting regionalized operations and sovereign sourcing. Strategic partnerships with NVIDIA, Anthropic, Palantir and Palo Alto Networks extend Cognizant’s capabilities in physical AI, multi-agent workflows and AI-driven cybersecurity.

“High-tech enterprises are accelerating toward AI-native engineering, distributed intelligence, and regionalized supply chains amid rising geopolitical pressures and trade restrictions. With growing adoption of Edge AI, intelligent products and multicloud environments, organizations are embedding intelligence across product engineering, connected devices and software development workflows to improve operational efficiency and real-time decision-making. Cognizant supports this transformation through AI-led, engineering-driven solutions. Its portfolio includes Flowsource™ for Gen AI-enabled SDLC automation, Neuro^® Edge for intelligent Edge applications and APEx for Industry 4.0-enabled manufacturing and connected operations. Through its three-vector AI strategy and the Agent Foundry platform, it enables enterprises to accelerate intelligent product development, industrialize AI adoption and scale agentic transformation across engineering, product and workflows,” said Norkit Lepcha, Lead Analyst, Avasant. “Additionally, its blockchain-based traceability solutions, fulfillment control towers, AI-driven decision analytics and geo-diversified delivery capabilities strengthen supply chain resilience by supporting regionalized operations and sovereign sourcing. Reinforcing this focus, it continues to invest in innovation labs, workforce enablement and ecosystem expansion. Its acquisition of 3Cloud enhances its cloud AI capabilities, while partnerships with NVIDIA, Anthropic, Palantir and Palo Alto Networks strengthen its capabilities in physical AI, multi-agent workflows and AI-driven cybersecurity, reinforcing its classification as a Leader in Avasant’s High-Tech Digital Services 2026 RadarView.”

“Being recognized by Avasant as a Leader in the High-Tech Digital Services 2026 RadarView™ is a testament to the strength and depth of what we are building for our clients,” said Anurag Sinha, Senior Vice President and Communications, Media and Technology Business Unit Leader, Cognizant. “High-tech enterprises are navigating an era of profound disruption—from AI-native engineering to regionalized supply chains and intelligent edge ecosystems. Our three-vector AI strategy, Agent Foundry platform and purpose-built solutions are designed to help clients move with speed and confidence through this transformation. Combined with our innovation lab investments and ecosystem partnerships, we are working to provide end-to-end, AI-enabled capabilities intended to support clients as they develop products, strengthen operations and explore agentic enterprise initiatives. This recognition reinforces the momentum behind our AI-led approach and our commitment to turning AI ambition into measurable enterprise value.”

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Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is an AI builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.