NICE and Cognizant announced the launch of a global strategic go-to-market partnership to accelerate customer experience (CX) transformation. This partnership leverages Cognizant's deep consulting and business transformation capabilities along with NICE CXone's industry-leading complete, integrated cloud platform to accelerate customer adoption of advanced CX solutions such as digital, analytics, and conversational AI. For both companies, this partnership will enable growth opportunities in their respective customer bases.

This partnership offers a comprehensive approach to bridge the gap between today's consumer expectations and organizations' delivery of extraordinary experiences. It is a step forward in transforming customer and agent experiences with a unified CCaaS suite encompassing omnichannel routing, AI, Analytics, WFO and Digital Self-Service offerings to redefine the way organizations engage and interact with customers. Previous collaboration between Cognizant and NICE has yielded impactful business outcomes, such as dramatically reduced answer and wait times as well as significantly accelerated platform deployments.

This strategic partnership will further evolve collaborative work. Cognizant's digital customer experience experts draw on strategy and research to link data to design, systems to stories, and insights to outcomes. Cognizant's experience-led offerings span the entire customer life cycle and drive value across vertical markets.

These solutions include customer and employee experience, content, and marketing services and omnichannel solutions.