Cognizant scales Gemini Enterprise with Google Cloud, expands Wallenius Wilhelmsen partnership

Cognizant moves from integration to enterprise execution with Google Cloud

Scaling agentic AI: Gemini Enterprise and Google Workspace go live

Cognizant announces a new phase in its strategic partnership with Google Cloud that shifts the relationship from platform integration to enterprise-scale execution aimed at operationalizing agentic AI. Building on a recent move to adopt Google’s Gemini Enterprise model, Cognizant is deploying Gemini alongside Google Workspace internally to lift productivity, employee experience and delivery velocity, and is packaging a combined Gemini–Workspace productivity offering for clients to convert manual, fragmented tasks into AI-driven workflows such as collaborative content creation and supplier communications.

The company is positioning itself as an “AI builder” and establishes a dedicated Gemini Enterprise Center of Excellence while operationalizing delivery through its Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC), which spans AI design and blueprinting through implementation, validation and production rollout. Cognizant says it will leverage tools such as Cognizant Ignition, enabled by Gemini, to accelerate discovery, prototyping and data foundation optimization, and scale delivery investments and enterprise-wide deployment and commercial execution. Annadurai Elango, President of Core Technologies and Insights at Cognizant, emphasizes a focus on purpose-built, industry-specific agentic solutions that embed context and business rules into production systems.

Google Cloud underlines the aim to deliver enterprise-ready AI with measurable impact. Kevin Ichhpurani, President of Global Ecosystem and Channels at Google Cloud, notes the collaboration seeks to translate AI strategy into governed, deployed systems at scale, enabling businesses to move from experimentation to repeatable, measurable outcomes. Cognizant frames the initiative as a multi‑year investment in repeatable implementation models and industry-tailored platforms, intending to co-create agentic solutions aligned to specific client needs across sectors and to support commercial execution that turns AI potential into operational results.

Strategic client transformation: Wallenius Wilhelmsen partnership expands

Separately, Cognizant expands a long-running technology relationship with Wallenius Wilhelmsen, moving from a services provider role to a strategic partner charged with modernizing the shipping firm’s core applications and infrastructure. The engagement focuses on simplifying digital operations, introducing practical AI‑driven efficiencies and strengthening the company’s digital foundation to support its integrated supply chain ambitions, executives say.

Cognizant frames the deal as evidence of its capability to support complex, global organizations and to advance forward-looking digital initiatives that modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences. Wallenius Wilhelmsen operates roughly 125 vessels across 15 trade routes to six continents, supported by a global inland network and about 70 processing centers, underscoring why robust, modernized systems and targeted AI improvements are central to the carrier’s next phase of digital transformation.