EPAM and Anthropic Forge Multi-Year AI Partnership to Accelerate Enterprise Transformation
Event summary
- EPAM Systems and Anthropic announced a multi-year partnership on May 6, 2026, to deliver safe, enterprise-grade AI solutions.
- EPAM is developing a dedicated practice of 10,000 Claude-certified architects, with 1,300 already certified and 5,000 expected by Q3 2026.
- Over 20,000 EPAM employees have completed training via the Anthropic Academy.
- The partnership combines EPAM's engineering expertise with Anthropic's Claude models and Agent SDK to automate workflows and analyze large-scale datasets.
The big picture
The partnership underscores the growing demand for service providers with complex engineering expertise to help enterprises transition from AI experimentation to full-scale implementation. As businesses seek to establish enterprise-wide autonomous AI, the collaboration between EPAM and Anthropic aims to set new standards for bridging technological speed with safety controls. This strategic move highlights the increasing importance of AI-native solutions in driving sustainable growth and operational resilience.
What we're watching
- Certification Pace
- Whether EPAM can sustain the rapid certification of 10,000 architects by the end of 2027.
- Market Differentiation
- How the partnership will position EPAM against competitors in the AI-native enterprise solutions space.
- Client Adoption
- The pace at which Global 2000 clients adopt the combined EPAM-Anthropic AI solutions.
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