Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) announced today a strategic, five-year, enterprise-wide partnership with The Andover Companies, Inc., one of the longest-standing mutual property and casualty insurance groups in the Northeast, to scale its core and portal systems, unify its data and help lay the foundation for responsible AI adoption in underwriting and claims.

Under the agreement, Cognizant will modernize integration of Andover's core policy administration platform to its digital properties, build a new enterprise data platform and strengthen the security of Andover's policyholder- and agent-facing digital portals, including support for NYDFS cybersecurity compliance, while helping Andover explore responsible AI use cases across IT, underwriting and claims.