- Cognizant and Google Cloud expand
long-standing strategic alliance to offer innovative industry
solutions founded on the tenet of responsible artificial
intelligence
- Powered by Google Cloud's suite of industry-leading AI
products, the alliance will support enterprise customers along
their AI journey to create, migrate, and modernize
- Cognizant will open new Google Cloud AI
Innovation Centers in Bangalore,
London, and San Francisco, scaling their industry-leading
AI capabilities
- New Cognizant Google Cloud AI University to train 25,000
Cognizant professionals plus clients
TEANECK, N.J., May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (NASDAQ:
CTSH), a leading global professional services company, and Google
Cloud, a leading provider of enterprise cloud computing, today
announced an expanded partnership to accelerate the adoption of
artificial intelligence (AI) by businesses around the world. This
effort will help clients create, migrate, and modernize their AI
journeys, meeting them where they are.
"I'm extremely excited by the recent breakthroughs in generative
AI that can help us move toward transforming our clients'
businesses while accelerating their productivity and thereby
driving significant impact," said Ravi
Kumar, CEO of Cognizant. "By expanding our long-standing
alliance with Google Cloud to leverage our existing technology
capabilities, upskill our talent, and deliver advanced technologies
to our clients, Cognizant will play a critical role in supporting
the global shift to responsible AI use."
"Generative AI has the potential to create significant business
value by streamlining how we work, creating new consumer
experiences, helping people better utilize data, and much more,"
said Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google
Cloud. "Our partnership with Cognizant will accelerate enterprises'
application of generative AI with more highly skilled AI experts,
new solutions focused on creating business value, and deep
experience applying Google Cloud technologies to industries like
financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and retail."
In deepening the alliance, Cognizant will invest in expanding
its product offerings, providing robust training resources for tech
talent development on Google Cloud, and launching innovation hubs
in key technology centers worldwide to prompt collaboration and
innovation around the responsible use of AI.
Building further on Cognizant's existing Data Modernization and
Data Analytics specializations on Google Cloud, Cognizant will
build a suite of transformative solutions for all industries,
leveraging Google Cloud's generative AI, predictive AI, and
analytics capabilities. The first solution suites to be offered
will be for the banking, insurance, life sciences, and retail
industries.
Cognizant's solution suites will utilize Google Cloud's new
suite of generative AI products, including large language models
(LLMs) and Gen App
Builder. Gen App
Builder exploits the full power of Google Cloud
generative AI to significantly lower rollout barriers (lead times,
skill required, and effort) for high-value enterprise use cases
such as Conversational AI and Enterprise Search. Google Cloud also
offers direct Application Programming Interface (API) access to the
underlying LLMs via generative AI support in Vertex AI. Additional
foundation model choices are available in the Vertex AI
Model Garden, which offers a variety of first-party,
third-party and open-source models, each optimized for a different
task and/or domain, providing a broad range of choices tailored for
client needs.
"Organizations must navigate a wide spectrum of challenges
throughout their AI adoption journeys, and with the advent of
generative AI, the journey has gotten even more complex," said
Jennifer Hamel, research director,
Analytics and Intelligent Automation Services, at IDC. "Partnering
with trusted providers of professional services and technology
solutions will be critical to address these challenges while
accelerating AI innovation and deployment at scale."
Cognizant's investments in developing generative AI capabilities
include launching the Cognizant Google Cloud AI University, a new
program that will train 25,000 Cognizant professionals on Google
Cloud AI technologies, which will also be offered to Cognizant
clients. The university will offer a variety of courses, including
introductory courses on AI fundamentals, advanced courses on Google
Cloud's solutions, and specific AI use cases.
Cognizant will also open a series of Google Cloud AI Innovation
hubs in Bangalore,
London, and San Francisco. These hubs will bring together
Cognizant experts, Google Cloud experts, customers, and university
students to collaborate on responsible AI projects and
solutions.
Cognizant is a premier Global Systems Integrator partner for
Google Cloud and a Luminary Sponsor for the 2023 Google Cloud Next
conference. In 2021, Cognizant expanded its relationship with
Google Cloud by creating a
dedicated Google Cloud Business Group
(GBG) to help accelerate shared clients' cloud
modernization journeys across key vertical markets. Cognizant
currently holds several partner specializations and expertise
credentials on Google Cloud and has one of the largest global
resource pools of Google-certified architects and engineers.
About Google Cloud
Google Cloud accelerates every
organization's ability to digitally transform its business. We
deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's
cutting-edge technology — all on the cleanest cloud in the
industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn
to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve
their most critical business problems.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers
modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology,
reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay
ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving
everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
For more information, contact:
Cognizant
U.S.
Josh
Blumenthal
joshua.blumenthal@Cognizant.com
Cognizant
India
Rashmi
Vasisht
rashmi.vasisht@Cognizant.com
Cognizant Europe /
APAC
Christina
Schneider
christina.schneider@cognizant.com
|
|
press@google.com
|
Logo -
https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1794711/Cognizant_Logo.jpg
Logo -
https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2072372/Google_Cloud_Logo.jpg
View original
content:https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/cognizant-and-google-cloud-expand-alliance-to-bring-ai-to-enterprise-clients-301818897.html