Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) announced it has been selected by OpenAI as a partner to deploy Codex across enterprise clients globally. The technology services company is integrating Codex into its Software Engineering Group workflows as a standard capability for software development and delivery.

OpenAI selected Cognizant among a group of global systems integrators based on their ability to deploy and scale Codex within complex enterprise environments. The partnership allows Cognizant to offer Codex-driven development services to clients across multiple industries.

"The best engineering organizations of the next decade will not be defined by how many engineers they have, but by how effectively human judgment and AI capability work as one," said Rajesh Varrier, President – Operations, and Chairman and Managing Director, Cognizant India.

Cognizant engineers are applying Codex across software development lifecycle activities in client projects, including AI model development, code refactoring, and legacy system modernization. The company reports these deployments demonstrate Codex's ability to accelerate delivery cycles and support code quality improvements.

"Codex is becoming a powerful workspace for managing agents across software development and business workflows," said Denise Dresser, Chief Revenue Officer at OpenAI. She noted that Cognizant's expertise in large-scale software transformation enables enterprises to deploy Codex across areas including legacy code modernization, code review automation, and vulnerability detection.

The partnership adds OpenAI's Codex capabilities to Cognizant's existing AI platform offerings. The companies plan to collaborate on delivering AI-powered engineering, modernization and security compliance capabilities to enterprise clients, according to the press release.