Cognizant today commemorated a quarter-century partnership with Ace Hardware, underscoring its role in modernizing Ace’s retail cooperative across e-commerce, supply chain and store operations. Over 25 years, Cognizant has migrated Ace from legacy platforms to SAP, deployed Manhattan Warehouse Management across 10 U.S. distribution centers in the past two years and co-developed an enterprise pricing engine. These initiatives have helped Ace grow online sales by more than 450% since 2019, while preserving its neighborhood-store model and signature "Helpful Place" experience.

Cognizant and Kohler extended their collaboration in a multi-year agreement to build Kohler’s next-generation digital foundation, integrating advanced cloud management, AI-driven security and observability. Since 2021, Cognizant has scaled Kohler’s infrastructure for the carve-out and launch of Kohler Energy, improved system reliability by 40% and accelerated software delivery cycles by 30%. Under the renewed deal, Cognizant Neuro® IT Operations will bring generative-AI capabilities to enterprise systems, e-commerce platforms and data analytics, targeting a further 25% reduction in mean time to resolution for critical incidents.

Belcan Government Solutions, a Cognizant company, secured a ceiling of $151 billion on the Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The IDIQ covers design, software, manufacturing, supply chain and digital engineering solutions for layered homeland defense. Cognizant’s aerospace and defense arm expects the award to drive double-digit revenue growth in its government business segment, leveraging its 60-year track record and specialized engineering teams to deliver rapid-cycle prototyping and AI-enabled combat simulations.

Cognizant renewed a multi-million-dollar strategic collaboration with Travel + Leisure Co. to modernize technology infrastructure and infuse AI into member services. The partnership will optimize the application landscape supporting 800,000 owner families and six million annual vacation bookings, upgrade cloud scalability and introduce machine-learning-driven personalization across digital touchpoints. Executives project a 20% improvement in system uptime and a 15% lift in customer-satisfaction scores within the first 18 months of the renewed agreement.