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Cognizant Technology Solutions Expands Collaboration With Snowflake

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Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) and Snowflake (SNOW) said Wednesday they have expanded their collaboration to accelerate enterprise artificial intelligence adoption via the Snowflake CoCo platform.

The collaboration is underpinned by solid adoption of the CoCo platform within Cognizant's AI and analytics practice, according to a statement.

As a preferred launch partner for CoCo, Cognizant is launching AI agents to support data engineering, analytics, and business workflows, according to the companies.

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