Cognizant expands Google Cloud partnership with new Google Business Group

Cognizant has now launched a Google Business Group (GBG) to help shared customers accelerate their cloud modernization journeys.

The program is an expansion of Cognizant's long-standing relationship with Google Cloud. Cognizant is expanding its combined service capabilities and joint solutions development to accelerate the customer cloud transformation.

Sanjiv Gossain, Global Head of Google Cloud Business Group and Head of AI, Cognizant, said, "The creation of the new Google Business Group at Cognizant demonstrates our expanded commitment to helping customers modernize their business infrastructure in the cloud. Google Cloud and Cognizant share common goals to accelerate cloud-led digital transformation, solve business challenges and drive long-term business benefits for our clients through industry solutions, data analytics, AI, process automation and application modernization."

Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate Vice President, Head of Global Ecosystem and Business Development, Google Cloud, said, "Businesses and industries across the globe are looking to Google Cloud to modernize business processes and create new digital customer experiences. We're thrilled about the new Cognizant Google Business Group, which brings together Cognizant's deep cloud and transformation expertise with Google Cloud's powerful technology to help accelerate our joint customers' business transformations in a time when the need has never been greater."

Cognizant's cloud relationship with Google Cloud has been spread across the four major pillars – Infrastructure Modernization, Smart Analytics, Application Modernization, and Artificial Intelligence.

As a part of the collaboration, Google Cloud and Cognizant will collaborate to deliver new industry solutions for key vertical markets. These verticals include financial services, healthcare, retail, and life sciences, and it will help drive business outcomes across the high-growth industries.

The industry solutions include the development and continuity of agile, modern infrastructures so that businesses can take full advantage of the cloud technology to optimize employee and customer experiences, capturing real-time and reimagining operations, intelligent insights at scale to inform new products, and services.

Cognizant’s in-house Google Cloud certified experts already offer cloud and industry expertise which is needed to deliver consulting, management, implementation, migration, and assurance services at scale for the shared global customers using the Google Cloud Technologies.