Cognizant launches Gemini Enterprise practice with Google

Cognizant has launched a Gemini Enterprise Practise with Google Cloud and has been named a Google Cloud Diamond Partner.

The new practice will place forward-deployed engineers inside client environments to work with Google Cloud teams on Gemini Enterprise deployments. Cognizant is also preparing offerings for Google Cloud Marketplace.

The move expands a long-running relationship between the two companies as demand grows for generative AI projects that can move from pilots into day-to-day operations. Cognizant is investing in Gemini Enterprise certification and training across its global delivery teams to support that work.

Google Cloud's Diamond designation is the highest tier in its partner programme. Cognizant said the status reflects its AI Builder approach and its work bringing AI systems into production settings.

Embedded Teams

Cognizant said the model centres on senior engineers working directly within customer operations rather than delivering projects remotely. The aim is to shorten deployment times and resolve operational issues as systems go live.

The arrangement also gives Cognizant a formal route to sell joint products through Google Cloud Marketplace. Those products will sit alongside a broader portfolio of tools and services developed with Google Cloud for enterprise customers.

Annadurai Elango, President, Core Technologies and Insights at Cognizant, said the practice builds on methods the company has already tested internally. “This enhanced approach reflects what Cognizant's AI Builder strategy is designed to do,” he said. “Forward-deployed engineers working directly alongside Google Cloud's teams, solving real problems in production, on site. We have built this capability, proven it internally and are now accelerating how we bring it to joint clients at scale.”

Client Work

The Gemini Enterprise Practise is already being used with joint customers. Cognizant cited work for a North American telecommunications provider, where AI agents were deployed to address billing discrepancies linked to hundreds of millions in revenue.

That initial project has since identified more than a dozen additional Gemini Enterprise use cases across the client's business, spanning revenue recovery, invoice reconciliation and workflow automation.

The telecoms example is one of the first concrete illustrations of how the partnership is being applied in large operational settings. It also highlights both companies' focus on industry-specific deployments rather than general-purpose demonstrations.

Broader Portfolio

The announcement follows other joint products introduced by the two companies, including Cognizant Agentic Retail CX, a contact centre offering built around Gemini Enterprise for customer experience work.

They are also developing what they call the Agentic Employee Platform, designed to place AI agents into specific business roles such as project management, marketing, and learning and development. Cognizant said the platform operates under a human-led, agent-operated model and can automate 60-70 per cent of manual effort in targeted workflows while cutting deployment timelines from quarters to weeks.

The product reflects a broader shift among technology services firms and cloud providers towards packaged AI systems aimed at narrow business tasks. Rather than asking customers to assemble models, tools and governance processes on their own, vendors are increasingly offering pre-built frameworks tied to measurable business functions.

Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud, said the partnership is focused on operational use cases. “Scaling AI into production requires an enterprise-ready platform combined with partners who can engineer targeted outcomes directly in the field,” he said. “Together, we are combining Google Cloud's advanced agentic capabilities with Cognizant's implementation expertise to help customers move from AI potential to measurable production impact.”

The collaboration also strengthens Cognizant's standing within Google Cloud's services ecosystem, where partners are competing to establish specialist practices around generative AI products. Its internal use of Gemini Enterprise and Google Workspace across global operations has also informed how it develops customer deployments.

For Google Cloud, the arrangement strengthens a channel strategy that relies on large service providers to embed its AI tools within major enterprise accounts. For Cognizant, it creates a clearer route to package services, engineering support and software offerings around one of the market's most closely watched AI product lines.

The immediate focus is on embedding engineers with customers and expanding the range of offers available through Google Cloud Marketplace, as the two companies seek to turn experimental AI demand into longer-term operational work.