Teaneck-based Cognizant announced a strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc. to accelerate AI-driven modernization across health care and enterprise operations.
As part of the collaboration, Cognizant will leverage Palantir Foundry and Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) to advance AI integration within its TriZetto health care business while jointly pursuing broader enterprise AI transformation opportunities for clients across industries.
The partnership advances Cognizant’s strategy to create purpose-built, enterprise-grade solutions that turn the potential of AI into real business value.
Cognizant will work with Palantir to explore how AIP can support AI-driven optimization across TriZetto’s health care platforms and BPaaS (Business Process as a Service) operations, with a focus on high-value workflows in highly regulated, labor-intensive environments.
“By combining Palantir’s AI platform capabilities with Cognizant’s deep industry expertise and global engineering scale, we are strengthening our ability to modernize mission-critical platforms like TriZetto while creating new opportunities to build purpose-driven, enterprise-grade solutions that help clients transform how they operate and deliver the experiences and outcomes their customers expect,” said Surya Gummadi, president, Americas, Cognizant.
Palantir brings deep experience deploying AI platforms in mission-critical environments in addition to its advanced data analytics capabilities.
“Enterprise AI doesn’t fail because models are weak. It fails when AI lacks a shared, governed understanding of how the business actually operates — something only the ontology can provide,” said Eric Lakin, U.S. commercial lead at Palantir.
Cognizant’s global delivery scale and domain expertise complement Palantir’s software-driven model, supporting both companies in expanding the reach and impact of AI-powered solutions while maintaining strong governance and security controls.
Both companies plan to collaborate on enterprise AI transformation initiatives beyond health care, expanding on their existing work across industries.
The partnership also reflects Palantir’s focus on ontology-driven AI — a governed deployment layer to help translate AI innovation into secure, real-world operations — paired with Cognizant’s ability to industrialize and deliver those capabilities across enterprise environments.
