Cognizant ties up with Microsoft to boost GenAI play

BENGALURU: Cognizant has expanded its partnership with Microsoft, with the goal of making MS’s generative AI and Copilots available to millions of users.

Cognizant has purchased 25,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats, along with 500 sales Copilot and 500 services Copilot to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and transform customer experiences. In addition, Cognizant will work to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot to a million users within their Global 2000 clients and across 11 industries.

Through Cognizant’s Synapse skilling programme, 35,000 Cognizant developers have been trained on GitHub Copilot, with an additional 40,000 developers slated to receive training.