DXC strikes global Claude AI alliance with Anthropic

DXC Technology has agreed a multi-year global alliance with Anthropic, becoming a Global Premier partner in the Claude Partner Network.

The partnership centres on bringing Anthropic's Claude AI models into the mission-critical systems DXC manages for large companies and government bodies.

DXC will build a dedicated workforce of Claude-certified engineers and builders to work inside customer environments. The team will be drawn from its existing engineering base and trained through the Anthropic Partner Academy, with additional certification developed by DXC for regulated and operationally complex settings.

The two companies are extending an existing relationship rather than starting from scratch. Claude is already used in DXC's own operations, including DXC OASIS, its orchestration platform for managed services, which is in production across more than 50 customers.

Claude was the main development tool used to build OASIS. DXC estimates the platform's software delivery process was accelerated tenfold, with more than 95% of code generated by Claude before human review.

DXC employs more than 115,000 people across 70 countries. The alliance will involve training tens of thousands of forward-deployed engineers and builders to put Claude into production in sectors including banking, aviation, insurance, manufacturing and government.

Priority areas

Initial work will focus on insurance, application modernisation, cybersecurity and enterprise application services. DXC already has a large services business in these areas, and both companies see demand for AI tools in complex operating environments.

In insurance, DXC plans to use Claude in work tied to core system change. In modernisation, it is applying the technology to the analysis, refactoring and transformation of legacy codebases for large customers.

Cybersecurity is another early target. A security engineer sub-agent within OASIS is built on Claude Security and will be used by DXC's security operations teams.

For application services, DXC is developing Anthropic-certified OASIS agents for application maintenance and management environments it runs on behalf of clients.

Internal use

The alliance also reflects a broader pattern in the AI market, as service providers try to demonstrate internal use cases before selling similar tools to external customers. DXC described this as a customer zero approach, saying it tested Claude within its own operations under security and compliance requirements comparable to those faced by clients.

Paul Smith, Chief Commercial Officer at Anthropic, set out the rationale for the tie-up.

"DXC helps the world's largest banks, airlines, insurers, and government agencies put new technology to work. They proved Claude inside their own operations first, under the same security and compliance requirements their customers face. Now we're bringing Claude inside those environments together, industry by industry, with engineers who have already done it themselves," said Smith.

Anthropic has been building a partner ecosystem around Claude as competition intensifies among AI model providers seeking routes into large corporate accounts. For providers such as Anthropic, alliances with outsourcing and systems integration groups offer access to established customer relationships, especially in industries where data governance, security controls and legacy infrastructure can slow adoption.

For DXC, the agreement gives it a formal role near the top of Anthropic's partner structure and a route to package AI-related consulting, deployment and operational work around sectors where it already runs core technology estates.

Raul Fernandez, President & Chief Executive Officer of DXC Technology, said the company sees the alliance as part of a broader shift in how AI will be used in large organisations.

"For more than fifty years, DXC and the companies it was built from have run the systems that run the world. We know what it takes to deliver in these environments. This alliance with Anthropic combines trust and experience with the most advanced AI technology available and gives our customers something they cannot get anywhere else. We are already using Claude across our own operations and our new DXC OASIS platform. Now we are scaling that capability directly into the mission-critical technology systems we run for our customers. This is a defining moment for DXC and for the industry," said Fernandez.