Box and Cognizant announced a collaboration that will help enterprises transform the way they work with Box Platform. The companies will build and deliver custom solutions for vertical industries that modernize business processes, drive productivity, and replace legacy infrastructure by moving enterprise content to the cloud.

"Box Platform represents a transformative way for businesses in every industry to create new digital experiences for their employees, customers and partners,” said Jeetu Patel, SVP of Platform and Chief Strategy Officer, Box. "We’re thrilled to partner with Cognizant and leverage their deep client relationships to deliver solutions that will help our joint customers achieve new levels of productivity and value.”

Cognizant and Box will develop industry-specific solutions for customers in a variety of markets, including healthcare, life sciences, financial services, insurance, media and entertainment, manufacturing and logistics, and retail. Cognizant will also be Box's preferred systems integrations partner for creating customized migration approaches for moving critical business content from legacy environments to Box. The two companies will provide training, consulting and custom services for customers.

“Documents still sit at the core of many business processes today,” said Sean Middleton, Chief Operating Officer, Emerging Business Accelerator, Cognizant. “As clients transform those processes, Box Platform enables us to quickly build flexible solutions that leverage enterprise-grade content management, collaboration and security capabilities.”