{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"166276","rtpr_id":"nPn9HVvBva-20261012","ticker":"HCLT","exchange":"NSE India","all_tickers":["HCLT"],"title":"HCLTech and Anthropic sign Global Premier Partnership to scale governed Agentic AI across global enterprises","author":"PR Newswire","published_at":"2026-10-12T11:57:21.297Z","article_body":"HCLTech and Anthropic sign Global Premier Partnership to scale governed Agentic AI across global enterprises\nPR Newswire\n\nSANTA CLARA, Calif. and NOIDA, India, Oct. 12, 2026\n\nHCLTech to establish a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit and Center of\nExcellence (CoE) to accelerate deployments of Claude in enterprise\nenvironments\n\nHCLSoftware becomes an Anthropic ISV partner, embedding Claude and Claude Code\ninto select enterprise products with frontier safety guardrails\n\nSANTA CLARA, Calif. and NOIDA, India, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- HCLTech\n(https://www.hcltech.com/)  (NSE: HCLTECH) (BSE: HCLTECH), a leading global\ntechnology company, today announced a Global Premier Partnership with\nAnthropic, to accelerate enterprise adoption of Agentic AI with a focus on\nsafety, cybersecurity and governance. HCLTech's services teams will build\nindustry solutions and offerings powered by Claude, Cowork and Claude Code,\nwhile HCLSoftware, as an Anthropic ISV partner, will embed these into its\nselect enterprise products.\n\nHCLTech will establish a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit with a Center of\nExcellence (CoE) to build Agentic AI solutions and provide secure sandbox\nenvironments for enterprise deployments of Claude through FDEs. It will also\nhelp clients adopt AI-native engineering practices, train their workforces and\nbuild the organizational capabilities needed to operate Agentic AI safely at\nscale.\n\nAs an ISV, HCLSoftware will embed Claude capabilities and have access to\nadvanced models to integrate into select enterprise products across\ncybersecurity, automation and business process application and application\ndevelopment, including HCL BigFix and HCL AppScan, while enabling Actian AI\nanalyst.\n\nAdditionally, HCLTech will integrate Claude and Claude Code in its agentic\nsoftware engineering platform AI Force across IT support, code remediation and\ndigital employee services. These workflows are supported by policy guardrails,\nexception handling and human oversight for high-impact changes.\n\n\"AI can only be as useful as it is trustworthy, and we build Claude to give\ncompanies the confidence to bring it into their most sensitive and valuable\nwork. HCLTech manages those kinds of systems for banks, hospitals, telecom\ncompanies and manufacturers, and we're excited to partner with them as they\nintegrate Claude and Claude Code. This partnership — and our broader\ncommitment to advancing capability and safety together — is how AI will\nchange the way entire industries run for the better,\" said Daniela Amodei,\nCo-founder and President of Anthropic.\n\n\"Few technology companies combine the scale of a global systems integrator\nwith the product depth of an ISV. That gives us a rare advantage to securely\nengineer and deploy Agentic AI at scale and deliver the business outcomes that\nmatter most to our clients. Our partnership with Anthropic further strengthens\nour capabilities to achieve the same,\" said C Vijayakumar, CEO & Managing\nDirector, HCLTech.\n\nThe collaboration builds on HCLTech's broader AI capabilities across\nengineering, data, cloud and software. By combining these capabilities with\nAnthropic's commitment to advancing AI and safety together, HCLTech will help\nclients move from AI experimentation to enterprise deployment safely and at\nscale.\n\nAbout HCLTech\n\nHCLTech (https://www.hcltech.com/)  is a global technology company, home to\nmore than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading\ncapabilities centered around AI, digital, engineering, cloud and software,\npowered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with\nclients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial\nServices, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology &\nServices, Semiconductor, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, Mobility and\nPublic Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026\ntotaled $14.8 billion. To learn how we can supercharge progress for you, visit\nhcltech.com (https://www.hcltech.com/) .\n\nFor further details, please contact:\nMeredith Bucaro, Americas - meredith-bucaro@hcltech.com\n(mailto:meredith-bucaro@hcltech.com)\nElka Ghudial, Europe - elka.ghudial@hcltech.com\n(mailto:elka.ghudial@hcltech.com)\nJames Galvin, APAC - james.galvin@hcltech.com\n(mailto:james.galvin@hcltech.com)\nNitin Shukla, India, Middle East & Africa- nitin-shukla@hcltech.com\n(mailto:nitin-shukla@hcltech.com)\n\nView original content to download\nmultimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hcltech-and-anthropic-sign-global-premier-partnership-to-scale-governed-agentic-ai-across-global-enterprises-302905626.html\n(https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hcltech-and-anthropic-sign-global-premier-partnership-to-scale-governed-agentic-ai-across-global-enterprises-302905626.html)\n\nSOURCE HCLTech\n\n\n\nPhoto: \nhttps://mmx.prnewswire.com/media/MS1659725/HCLTech-Logo.jpg?id=OA3012730\n\nCopyright (c) 2026 PR Newswire Association,LLC. All Rights Reserved.","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nPn9HVvBva-20261012","title":"HCLTech and Anthropic sign Global Premier Partnership to scale governed Agentic AI across global enterprises","author":"PR Newswire","ticker":"HCLT","created":"2026-10-12T11:57:21.297Z","tickers":["HCLT"],"exchange":"NSE India","article_body":"HCLTech and Anthropic sign Global Premier Partnership to scale governed Agentic AI across global enterprises\nPR Newswire\n\nSANTA CLARA, Calif. and NOIDA, India, Oct. 12, 2026\n\nHCLTech to establish a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit and Center of\nExcellence (CoE) to accelerate deployments of Claude in enterprise\nenvironments\n\nHCLSoftware becomes an Anthropic ISV partner, embedding Claude and Claude Code\ninto select enterprise products with frontier safety guardrails\n\nSANTA CLARA, Calif. and NOIDA, India, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- HCLTech\n(https://www.hcltech.com/)  (NSE: HCLTECH) (BSE: HCLTECH), a leading global\ntechnology company, today announced a Global Premier Partnership with\nAnthropic, to accelerate enterprise adoption of Agentic AI with a focus on\nsafety, cybersecurity and governance. HCLTech's services teams will build\nindustry solutions and offerings powered by Claude, Cowork and Claude Code,\nwhile HCLSoftware, as an Anthropic ISV partner, will embed these into its\nselect enterprise products.\n\nHCLTech will establish a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit with a Center of\nExcellence (CoE) to build Agentic AI solutions and provide secure sandbox\nenvironments for enterprise deployments of Claude through FDEs. It will also\nhelp clients adopt AI-native engineering practices, train their workforces and\nbuild the organizational capabilities needed to operate Agentic AI safely at\nscale.\n\nAs an ISV, HCLSoftware will embed Claude capabilities and have access to\nadvanced models to integrate into select enterprise products across\ncybersecurity, automation and business process application and application\ndevelopment, including HCL BigFix and HCL AppScan, while enabling Actian AI\nanalyst.\n\nAdditionally, HCLTech will integrate Claude and Claude Code in its agentic\nsoftware engineering platform AI Force across IT support, code remediation and\ndigital employee services. These workflows are supported by policy guardrails,\nexception handling and human oversight for high-impact changes.\n\n\"AI can only be as useful as it is trustworthy, and we build Claude to give\ncompanies the confidence to bring it into their most sensitive and valuable\nwork. HCLTech manages those kinds of systems for banks, hospitals, telecom\ncompanies and manufacturers, and we're excited to partner with them as they\nintegrate Claude and Claude Code. This partnership — and our broader\ncommitment to advancing capability and safety together — is how AI will\nchange the way entire industries run for the better,\" said Daniela Amodei,\nCo-founder and President of Anthropic.\n\n\"Few technology companies combine the scale of a global systems integrator\nwith the product depth of an ISV. That gives us a rare advantage to securely\nengineer and deploy Agentic AI at scale and deliver the business outcomes that\nmatter most to our clients. Our partnership with Anthropic further strengthens\nour capabilities to achieve the same,\" said C Vijayakumar, CEO & Managing\nDirector, HCLTech.\n\nThe collaboration builds on HCLTech's broader AI capabilities across\nengineering, data, cloud and software. By combining these capabilities with\nAnthropic's commitment to advancing AI and safety together, HCLTech will help\nclients move from AI experimentation to enterprise deployment safely and at\nscale.\n\nAbout HCLTech\n\nHCLTech (https://www.hcltech.com/)  is a global technology company, home to\nmore than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading\ncapabilities centered around AI, digital, engineering, cloud and software,\npowered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with\nclients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial\nServices, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology &\nServices, Semiconductor, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, Mobility and\nPublic Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026\ntotaled $14.8 billion. To learn how we can supercharge progress for you, visit\nhcltech.com (https://www.hcltech.com/) .\n\nFor further details, please contact:\nMeredith Bucaro, Americas - meredith-bucaro@hcltech.com\n(mailto:meredith-bucaro@hcltech.com)\nElka Ghudial, Europe - elka.ghudial@hcltech.com\n(mailto:elka.ghudial@hcltech.com)\nJames Galvin, APAC - james.galvin@hcltech.com\n(mailto:james.galvin@hcltech.com)\nNitin Shukla, India, Middle East & Africa- nitin-shukla@hcltech.com\n(mailto:nitin-shukla@hcltech.com)\n\nView original content to download\nmultimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hcltech-and-anthropic-sign-global-premier-partnership-to-scale-governed-agentic-ai-across-global-enterprises-302905626.html\n(https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hcltech-and-anthropic-sign-global-premier-partnership-to-scale-governed-agentic-ai-across-global-enterprises-302905626.html)\n\nSOURCE HCLTech\n\n\n\nPhoto: \nhttps://mmx.prnewswire.com/media/MS1659725/HCLTech-Logo.jpg?id=OA3012730\n\nCopyright (c) 2026 PR Newswire Association,LLC. 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