HCLTech and Anthropic announced a Global Premier Partnership on October 12, 2026, to accelerate enterprise adoption of Agentic AI with a focus on safety and governance.
Business Unit and Center of Excellence
HCLTech will establish a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit alongside a Center of Excellence to build Agentic AI solutions. The CoE will provide secure sandbox environments for enterprise deployments of Claude through FDEs.
The initiative will also help clients adopt AI-native engineering practices, train their workforces, and build the organizational capabilities needed to operate Agentic AI safely at scale.
Product Integration and ISV Partnership
As part of the agreement, HCLSoftware becomes an Anthropic ISV partner. The partnership embeds Claude capabilities into select enterprise products across cybersecurity, automation, and application development, including HCL BigFix and HCL AppScan, while enabling Actian AI analyst.
Additionally, HCLTech will integrate Claude and Claude Code into its agentic software engineering platform AI Force across IT support, code remediation, and digital employee services.
Executive Perspectives
Daniela Amodei, Co-founder and President of Anthropic, stated that Claude is built to give companies the confidence to bring AI into their most sensitive and valuable work.
C Vijayakumar, CEO and Managing Director of HCLTech, noted that combining the scale of a global systems integrator with ISV product depth provides a rare advantage for engineering and deploying Agentic AI.
Key facts and where they come from
- HCLTech and Anthropic announced a Global Premier Partnership on October 12, 2026.
announced a Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic, to accelerate enterprise adoption of Agentic AI
- HCLSoftware becomes an Anthropic ISV partner to embed Claude and Claude Code into select enterprise products.
HCLSoftware becomes an Anthropic ISV partner, embedding Claude and Claude Code into select enterprise products with frontier safety guardrails
- HCLTech will establish a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit and Center of Excellence.
HCLTech will establish a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit with a Center of Excellence (CoE) to build Agentic AI solutions
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