HCLTech Forms Anthropic Business Unit Under Global Premier Partnership

What happened

HCLTech on October 12, 2026 announced a Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic, under which it will establish a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit and Center of Excellence and embed Claude and Claude Code into select HCLSoftware enterprise products as an Anthropic ISV partner. HCLTech said its services teams will build industry solutions and offerings powered by Claude, Cowork and Claude Code. Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, and its products and services include Claude and Claude Code.

According to the announcement, HCLTech will establish a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit with a Center of Excellence to build Agentic AI solutions and provide secure sandbox environments for enterprise deployments of Claude through Frontier Deployed Engineers, or FDEs. HCLTech said the unit 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.

Partnership Terms and Deployment Plans The announcement, datelined Santa Clara, USA and Noida, India, states that the partnership is aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of Agentic AI, with a focus on safety, cybersecurity and governance. HCLSoftware becomes an Anthropic independent software vendor partner under the agreement.

Key facts

• HCLTech on October 12, 2026 — announced: a Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic, under which it will establish a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit and Center of Excellence and embed Claude and Claude Code into select HCLSoftware enterprise products as an Anthropic ISV partner