India, Feb. 25 -- As enterprises move from experimenting with AI to embedding it into core operations, the conversation is shifting from pilot programs to production-scale infrastructure, governance, and economics. Partnerships between global system integrators and hyperscalers are becoming critical in translating rapid advances in foundation models into tangible business outcomes. Against this backdrop, organisations are rethinking how platforms, data architectures, and security frameworks must evolve to support agentic workflows, while also addressing cost, sovereignty, and legacy modernisation challenges.

In this interview, Annadurai Elango, President - Core Technologies and Insights at Cognizant, outlines how the company is operation...