Cognizant Accelerates Enterprise AI Adoption with Snowflake Cortex-Powered AI Agents

Cognizant Corporation (Headquarters: New Jersey, USA, CEO: Ravi Kumar S, hereinafter referred to as Cognizant) announced at "Snowflake Summit 2026" that it is expanding its collaboration with Snowflake to accelerate enterprise AI adoption through the "Snowflake CoCo" platform.

Cognizant was selected as a "Priority Launch Partner" for CoCo and received the "CoCo Catalyst Partner of the Year for Impactful Customer Story" award in fiscal year 2026. The company is currently expanding its offerings of agent-based AI to support and enhance data engineering, analytics, and business decision-making workflows, assisting companies in moving rapidly and reliably from the proof-of-concept stage to full-scale operation.

While many companies are being pressured to implement AI, legacy systems, fragmented data environments, and the complexity of integrating AI into business workflows remain significant barriers. Cognizant's AI Builder strategy is designed to directly address these challenges. This approach combines advanced AI platforms, deep industry knowledge, and workflow-centric design to guide enterprises from AI experimentation to value creation. This significantly reduces the time required for the entire AI implementation process, from model generation and agent collaboration to properly managed analytics and streamlined validation processes, enabling the deployment of production-level AI agents at a speed that traditional development models cannot match.

Navin Sharma, Senior Vice President and Practice Lead for AI & Analytics at Cognizant, stated, "Development time is dramatically reduced when the data foundation is AI-ready and business context is properly incorporated. That is the value Cognizant's AI Builder provides, and by leveraging Snowflake CoCo, we are achieving production-level AI operational implementation, which typically takes weeks, in just a few hours."

Proven Track Record Supporting Large-Scale AI Implementation

The expansion of this collaboration is underpinned by the strong adoption of the CoCo platform within Cognizant's AI & Analytics division. The achievements are as follows:

Number of Users: Over 2,250 across Cognizant's labs and customer environments

Implemented Use Cases: Over 30

Deployment Support Provided: Over 260 hours

Development Achievements: Over 12 custom CoCo skills, more than 90 ready-to-use development acceleration tools

AI Request Processing Volume: Supported over 1.3 million requests, demonstrating company-wide adoption and large-scale practical utilization

Amy Codell, SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels at Snowflake, commented, "Companies are now at a critical juncture where they need to transition their AI initiatives from 'experiments' to 'tangible business-wide results.' Our collaboration with Cognizant merges the power of the CoCo platform with deep industry and operational expertise. This will help companies operationalize AI faster, turn data into decisions, and generate significant business outcomes at scale."

Case Study: Business Transformation with A+E Global Media

A prime example of an investment in AI translating into concrete business results is A+E Global MediaTM. Cognizant implemented an "Interactive Analytics Agent" built on Snowflake CoCo, significantly overhauling their broadcast log processing.

Key Benefits of Implementation:

Automation of Multi-Stage Processes: Streamlined manual analysis workflows and automated data set preparation.

Natural Language Data Analysis: Enabled business users to ask questions in natural language, facilitating investigations into discrepancies in ad delivery and the creation of individual reports on specific product categories.

Significant Improvement in Operational Efficiency: Reduced approximately 200 hours of manual work across the commercial, legal, and business departments, accelerating decision-making while controlling labor costs.

Functionality as an AI Copilot: Snowflake CoCo supported complex SQL creation, data quality validation, and exploratory data analysis, reducing development time and improving accuracy.

Bruno Satian, VP of Corporate Application Engineering and Enterprise Data at A+E Global Media, stated, "We leverage Snowflake's AI-native cloud platform, including Cortex agents, to enable intelligent access to broadcast and advertising operations data. This allows our advertising operations and legal departments to interact directly with data, make faster and more accurate decisions, and significantly reduce manual work. Cognizant is a strong strategic partner that helps us realize these innovative AI solutions."

AI Programs Scaling on a Proven Foundation

Cognizant continues to expand its CoCo-leveraged use cases across a wide range of areas, including analytics, contract intelligence, compliance automation, financial workflows, and anomaly detection. Other representative implementation results include a reduction in work hours by up to 70% for a global biopharmaceutical company. Additionally, a sports & entertainment company achieved cost savings of approximately $85,000 annually and created about 1,300 hours of operational time, while a North American telecommunications provider reduced the time required for impact analysis during system changes by 99%, demonstrating significant effects across diverse industries.

Cognizant plans to continue investing in industry-specific CoCo skills, pre-built agent templates, and cross-system integration capabilities, building on success stories like A+E Global Media, to support enterprises in scaling their agent-based AI programs on a secure foundation.

About Cognizant

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider that bridges AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for its clients. Leveraging its deep expertise in industry, business processes, and engineering, the company integrates organization-specific business environments into technology systems. This maximizes human potential, delivers tangible results, and helps global enterprises stay one step ahead in a rapidly changing world.

For more information, visit www.cognizant.com or follow @cognizant.

*This release is a translation of the US headquarters' "Cognizant Accelerates Enterprise AI Adoption with Snowflake's Cortex-Powered Intelligent Agents."

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