Featured Enterprise AI Builder: Cognizant

Cognizant positions itself as a leader in the Enterprise AI market, particularly in Generative AI and emerging agentic AI (autonomous, goal-oriented AI agents and multi-agent systems).

It is recognized by Everest Group as a Leader and Star Performer in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI Services (per the 2025 PEAK Matrix® Assessment), driven by its Neuro® AI platform, expanding agentic AI solutions, responsible innovation, strong partnerships, and delivery expertise.

Cognizant’s Enterprise AI portfolio spans advisory, platforms, data management, modernization, and specialized agent development. This enables clients to transition from AI experimentation to scalable, enterprise-wide transformation.

Addressing the “AI velocity gap”

The company emphasizes being an “AI builder” — focusing on purpose-built, enterprise-grade solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes, governance, security, and compliance (e.g., first IT services provider with ISO 42001:2023 certification for AI management).

Cognizant addresses the “AI velocity gap” by accelerating adoption, operationalizing AI at scale, and bridging infrastructure investments with real ROI.

Recent developments (2025–2026) highlight heavy investment in agentic AI, with expanded partnerships (e.g., Google Cloud for operationalizing agentic AI using Gemini Enterprise, Adobe for AI-driven content and customer experience, Microsoft, Anthropic) and acquisitions (e.g., 3Cloud for Azure/AI capabilities).

De-Fearing the Future: How AI Is Reshaping Enterprise Work Today

Cognizant Agent Foundry is an enterprise-grade, platform-agnostic framework to help organizations design, build, deploy, orchestrate, and scale autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems.

It enables enterprises to transition from isolated AI pilots and experimentation to production-grade, agentic AI networks that “think, act, and learn” across business functions. This supports the shift toward becoming an “agentic enterprise,” where humans and AI agents collaborate to drive adaptive operations, real-time decision-making, personalized experiences, productivity gains, faster decisions, and cost efficiencies.

Cognizant also offers the keynote executive insights and thought leadership to help boards navigate these dramatic transformations.

AI is already reshaping enterprise work, but the real challenge isn’t the technology. It’s how organizations help people navigate fear, build relevance, and redesign work in a world where humans and AI agents operate side by side.

In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell is joined by Ganesh Ayyar to explore what enterprise transformation actually looks like in the AI era. Ganesh breaks down why job cuts are a flawed response to AI disruption and why skilling must be treated as core enterprise infrastructure.

He shares how leading organizations are rethinking operating models, governance, and accountability as AI moves from experimentation to scale and why context, not raw intelligence, is what unlocks real enterprise value. From managing human and digital labor together to designing systems where AI augments judgment rather than replaces it, the conversation focuses on what works in practice.