Cognizant Embeds OpenAI Codex Across Engineering Workflows via New Partnership

Summary

Cognizant was named by OpenAI as one of a select group of global system integrators to deploy Codex in complex enterprise environments through the Codex Labs partner program. Cognizant is using Codex for code generation, refactoring, testing, documentation, and agentic workflow development. The partnership is layered on top of Cognizant's existing Claude deployment — 350,000 Cognizant employees now use Claude across Anthropic's Agent SDK, Claude Code, and MCP integrations — creating a dual-model