Google Cloud partners with Cognizant to open new AI innovation centre in London

Cognizant, a global professional services company, and Google Cloud, a 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 modernise their AI journeys, meeting them where they are.

Ravi Kumar, CEO of Cognizant, commented: “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.

“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.”

Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud, added: “Generative AI has the potential to create significant business value by streamlining how we work, creating new consumer experiences, helping people better utilise data, and much more.

“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 centres worldwide to prompt collaboration and innovation around the responsible use of AI.

Building further on Cognizant’s existing Data Modernisation and Data Analytics specialisations 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.

Jennifer Hamel, research director, Analytics and Intelligent Automation Services, at IDC, concluded: “Organisations 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.

“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 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.

By Matthew Neville – Senior Correspondent, Bdaily

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