Fri, 16 Oct 2026

HCLTech and Anthropic partner to scale governed agentic AI across global enterprises

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HCLTech has announced a Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic to accelerate enterprise adoption of Agentic AI, with a focus on safety, cybersecurity, and governance.

Daniela Amodei
Daniela Amodei

“AI can only be as useful as it is trustworthy, and we build Claude to give companies the confidence to bring it into their most sensitive and valuable work. HCLTech manages those kinds of systems for banks, hospitals, telecom companies and manufacturers, and we’re excited to partner with them as they integrate Claude and Claude Code. This partnership — and our broader commitment to advancing capability and safety together — is how AI will change the way entire industries run for the better,” said Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic.

Scaling governed Agentic AI

HCLTech’s services teams will develop industry solutions powered by Claude, Cowork, and Claude Code. As an Anthropic ISV partner, HCLSoftware will integrate these technologies into select enterprise products.

HCLTech will establish a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit and a Centre of Excellence to develop Agentic AI solutions and provide secure sandbox environments for enterprise Claude deployments through FDEs. The company will also help clients adopt AI-native engineering practices, train their workforces, and build the capabilities needed to operate Agentic AI safely at scale.

As an ISV, HCLSoftware will embed Claude capabilities and access advanced models to integrate into select enterprise products across cybersecurity, automation, business process applications, 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. These workfloPolicyeption handling and human oversight for high-impact cwill govern these workflows hanges.

C Vijayakumar
C Vijayakumar

“Our partnership with Anthropic further strengthens our capabilities to achieve the same,” said C Vijayakumar, CEO & managing director, HCLTech.

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