Cognizant partners Palantir to scale AI-led modernisation in healthcare, enterprises

IT services firm Cognizant on Friday announced a partnership with US-based Palantir Technologies to accelerate artificial intelligence-led modernisation across healthcare platforms and broader enterprise operations.

Under the partnership, Cognizant will use Palantir Foundry and Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) to deepen AI integration within its TriZetto healthcare business, while jointly pursuing enterprise AI transformation opportunities for clients across industries.

The collaboration is aimed at deploying purpose-built, enterprise-grade AI solutions in highly regulated and data-intensive environments, with an initial focus on healthcare workflows and Cognizant’s business process as a service (BPaaS) operations.

Cognizant said the partnership will explore how Palantir’s AIP can support AI-driven optimisation across TriZetto’s core platforms, which are used by payers and healthcare organisations to manage claims, benefits and care delivery.

“By combining Palantir’s AI platform capabilities with Cognizant’s deep industry expertise and global engineering scale, we are strengthening our ability to modernise mission-critical platforms like TriZetto,” said Surya Gummadi, president, Americas, Cognizant.

Palantir brings experience in deploying AI platforms in mission-critical environments, with a focus on what it calls ontology-driven AI—a governed deployment layer designed to ensure AI systems operate with a shared and auditable understanding of business processes.

“Enterprise AI doesn’t fail because models are weak. It fails when AI lacks a governed understanding of how the business actually operates,” said Eric Lakin, US commercial lead at Palantir.

Beyond healthcare, the two companies plan to collaborate on enterprise AI initiatives across sectors, combining Palantir’s software-led approach with Cognizant’s global delivery and industry domain expertise, while maintaining governance and security controls.

The announcement comes only a day after Cognizant reported fourth-quarter revenue of $5.3 billion, up 4.9% year-on-year, or 3.8% in constant currency, while full-year revenue rose 7% to $21.1 billion. Annual operating margin expanded 140 basis points to 16.1%. 

Strong large-deal momentum continued to support growth, with twelve-month bookings rising 5% to $28.4 billion and fourth-quarter bookings increasing 9%. Cognizant secured 28 large deals in 2025, including 12 in the December quarter, as enterprises stepped up investments in cloud modernisation, automation and AI-led transformation. The company described 2025 as a turning point for its AI strategy, with Chief Executive Ravi Kumar S saying Cognizant has shifted its “AI builder” model into execution, supported by platform investments, ecosystem partnerships and workforce upskilling to scale enterprise AI adoption.