At Snowflake Summit 2026, held in early June, Cognizant announced a significant expansion of its partnership with Snowflake to accelerate enterprise AI adoption through the Snowflake CoCo platform (formerly Cortex Code) (investors.cognizant.com).
Cognizant, recognized as Snowflake’s 2026 CoCo Catalyst Partner of the Year for Impactful Customer Story, is deploying a growing portfolio of AI‑powered intelligent agents that enhance data engineering, analytics, and decision workflows. These agents are designed to help enterprises move beyond pilot projects and into full-scale production with speed and confidence (investors.cognizant.com).
To date, Cognizant has onboarded over 2,250 users across its labs and client environments, operationalized more than 30 enterprise use cases, delivered over 260 hours of enablement, and processed more than 1.3 million AI‑driven requests. The firm has also developed 12+ custom CoCo skills and over 90 revenue‑ready accelerators, demonstrating sustained, enterprise‑wide adoption and real consumption at scale (investors.cognizant.com).
A standout deployment is with A+E Global Media, where Cognizant implemented an AI‑powered conversational analytics agent built on Snowflake CoCo. This agent transformed Creative Airing Logs workflows—automating dataset preparation, enabling natural‑language querying, and streamlining ad‑hoc reporting. The result: approximately 200 hours of manual effort reclaimed, reduced labor costs, and accelerated decision‑making across Commercial Operations and Legal & Business Affairs teams (investors.cognizant.com).
Other client outcomes include up to 70% effort reduction for a global biopharma leader, around $85K 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—underscoring Cognizant’s ability to translate AI innovation into tangible enterprise value (investors.cognizant.com).
Cognizant plans to deepen its investment in industry‑specific CoCo skills, pre‑built agent templates, and cross‑platform orchestration capabilities to help enterprises scale their agentic AI programs on a governed, proven foundation (investors.cognizant.com).
This development marks one of the most significant enterprise AI advances in the past 24–48 hours—highlighting how agentic AI is moving from experimentation to operational reality, with measurable business impact.