Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) and Snowflake announced an expanded collaboration to accelerate enterprise AI adoption through the Snowflake CoCo platform, according to a company statement. The announcement was made at Snowflake Summit 26.

Cognizant serves as a Preferred Launch Partner for CoCo and received recognition as Snowflake's 2026 CoCo Catalyst Partner of the Year for Impactful Customer Story. The company is deploying AI-powered intelligent agents that support data engineering, analytics and business decision workflows.

The CoCo platform has expanded to more than 2,250 users across Cognizant labs and client environments. The company has operationalized over 30 enterprise use cases and delivered more than 260 hours of enablement. Cognizant has developed 12 custom CoCo skills and over 90 accelerators, supporting more than 1.3 million AI-driven requests.

"When the data foundation is AI-ready and business context is built in, build cycles collapse," said Naveen Sharma, Senior Vice President and Practice Head, AI & Analytics at Cognizant. "That is exactly what Cognizant's AI Builder approach delivers, and with Snowflake CoCo, we are putting production-grade AI into enterprise workflows in hours, not weeks."

A+E Global Media implemented an AI-powered conversational analytics agent built on Snowflake CoCo to transform Creative Airing Logs. The solution automated dataset preparation and enabled business users to ask natural language questions and investigate trafficking discrepancies. The implementation helped A+E Global Media reclaim approximately 200 hours of manual effort for business users.

Cognizant reported outcomes from other implementations including up to 70% effort reduction for a global biopharma company, approximately $85,000 in annual savings and 1,300 hours reclaimed for a sports and entertainment company, and a 99% reduction in change impact analysis time for a North American telecom provider.