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Cognizant's New EMEA AI Unit: Transforming Business Through AI

Cognizant, a leader in technology solutions, has officially launched its EMEA AI Unit aimed at assisting businesses across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa in successfully scaling their agentic AI initiatives. This newly formed unit is a part of Cognizant's broader strategy to help organizations convert their AI ambitions into measurable business value.

The EMEA AI Unit integrates advisory, engineering, and implementation capabilities that align with Cognizant's AI Builder approach. The focus is to support organizations in developing, deploying, and managing agentic AI solutions that are tailored to their unique business context. The initiative emphasizes measurable results across various platforms, models, and cloud environments, prioritizing neutrality over vendor lock-in.

Bridging the Gap from Experimentation to Impact

A critical aspect of the new unit is its innovative Frontier Deployed Engineering offering, designed to aid clients in moving from AI experimentation to substantial business impact. This offering encompasses three distinct service models: Foundation, Accelerate, and Transform.

• - Foundation: This model aids organizations in establishing their AI strategy, governance, and making technological choices while developing the initial prototypes needed to kickstart their journey with agentic AI.
• - Accelerate: This phase focuses on swiftly identifying and producing high-value use cases for immediate deployment.
• - Transform: The Transform model supports organizations through comprehensive business transformation, employing multi-agent teams to redesign and automate workflows while taking responsibility for operational performance.

Delivering AI Solutions Tailored to Individual Needs

Currently, the EMEA AI Unit is supporting clients at various stages of their AI maturity journey. For instance, they are collaborating with one of Europe's leading online retailers to produce proven AI use cases using an AI factory model, decreasing development cycles from months to just days. This adoption of agentic workflows optimizes supply chain processes, inventory management, returns handling, and enhances customer experience while fortifying margin protection.

In addition, the unit is working with a major pharmaceutical company to transform its R&D processes using multi-agent systems for drug discovery, clinical trial design, and regulatory submission preparation.

A Neutral Approach to AI Development

Cognizant's EMEA AI Unit embodies the firm’s mission to create AI systems that truly work within the enterprise by bringing together people, platforms, and business contexts. As a neutral AI Builder, Cognizant partners with various cloud platforms and AI models, enabling clients to select and scale solutions tailored to their particular operational needs.

As highlighted by Manoj Mehta, President EMEA at Cognizant, “Many organizations across EMEA are excited about AI but are still searching for ways to convert that momentum into tangible business value.” The EMEA AI Unit's strategic framework aims to empower businesses to take their AI pilot projects and turn them into substantial, scalable results, all while ensuring compliance with regional requirements, such as data sovereignty and industry-specific operational standards.

About Cognizant

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a global leader in AI solutions and technological services, building the bridge between AI investments and business outcomes through full-stack AI solutions tailored to each client's unique context. With deep sector, process, and technical expertise, Cognizant reinforces human potential and delivers tangible returns while driving global enterprises to the forefront of a rapidly changing environment. For more information, visit Cognizant.