A Workforce of Tens of Thousands of Claude-Certified Engineers

The centerpiece of the alliance is a workforce transformation. DXC and Anthropic will build a dedicated team of Claude-certified forward-deployed engineers (FDEs), embedded directly inside customer organizations to bring Claude models into production . The companies consistently describe this as a team of “tens of thousands” of engineers and builders .

DXC plans to recruit these engineers from its existing pool of engineering professionals. They will undergo training and certification through Anthropic Academy, Anthropic’s training and certification program for partner engineers, supplemented by DXC’s own curriculum for mission-critical systems . A report from MarketWatch notes the goal is for participants to complete certification within 90 days, gaining daily access to Claude and acquiring practical skills in designing and deploying agentic AI systems .

This is not a small skunkworks project. It signals an intent to make Claude expertise a core competency across one of the world's largest IT services firms, a direct attempt to solve the enterprise bottleneck of not having enough people who can safely deploy generative AI.

The Four Initial Application Areas

The alliance begins in four specific domains where DXC already operates large-scale customer environments and where Claude’s agentic capabilities can deliver value quickly :

1. Insurance — DXC will use Claude to provide agentic solutions that modernize core insurance platforms, tailoring implementations to each customer’s business context, operating model, and strategic goals .
2. Modernization as a Service (MaaS) — Claude will help enterprise customers analyze, refactor, and modernize legacy codebases. The aim is to accelerate these historically slow, expensive projects with greater accuracy .
3. Cybersecurity — For the DXC OASIS platform, the companies are developing an always-on security engineer subagent built on Claude Security. This agent will be deployed across DXC’s security operations centers (SOCs) to augment threat detection and response .
4. Application Services — DXC is building OASIS agents that embed Claude directly into the application maintenance and management environments it operates for enterprise customers .

By targeting these specific operational areas rather than broad “innovation” categories, the alliance focuses on measurable improvements to core IT work: keeping systems secure, modernizing old code, and managing the applications that run global businesses.

The OASIS Foundation: Proven Results Before the Partnership

This alliance is not a speculative bet. The partnership formalizes and expands a relationship that was already delivering results.

In April 2026, DXC launched DXC OASIS, its AI-native orchestration platform for managed services. Claude is the default foundation model powering the platform’s agentic workflows . Before the global alliance was signed, DXC used Claude internally to build OASIS itself, and the metrics it reported were striking :

• Claude generated over 95% of the code for OASIS, with human engineers reviewing the output.
• DXC estimates Claude accelerated software development by a factor of 10x compared to traditional methods.
• As of the alliance announcement, OASIS was already in production with more than 50 joint customers and a global rollout underway .

By proving Claude could meet DXC’s own stringent security and compliance requirements internally, the company created a reference architecture that de-risks the model for its most regulated clients .

The Broader Context: Anthropic’s Partner Network Matures

The DXC alliance marks a significant escalation of Anthropic’s enterprise channel strategy. Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network on March 12, 2026, anchored by a $100 million commitment for the year and initial partnerships with the “Big Four” global consultancy firms: Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant, and Infosys .

Just days before the DXC announcement, on June 3, 2026, Anthropic added two major extensions to the network :

• A tiered Services Track with more than 100 launch partners. The program includes four tiers based on deployment experience, not company size, with plans to graduate the first cohort of potentially hundreds of partners around October 2026 .
• A new Claude Partner Hub, designed to help enterprises identify qualified partners to deploy and manage Claude-powered systems .

With DXC now joining as a Global Premier partner alongside the Big Four, Anthropic is signaling that it intends to build enterprise distribution through systems integrators who manage real IT operations, not just through advisory consultancies or direct sales . For regulated industries that cannot simply plug into a public API, this partner-driven model may be the only path to production at scale.

A Workforce of Tens of Thousands of Claude-Certified Engineers

The centerpiece of the alliance is a workforce transformation. DXC and Anthropic will build a dedicated team of Claude-certified forward-deployed engineers (FDEs), embedded directly inside customer organizations to bring Claude models into production . The companies consistently describe this as a team of “tens of thousands” of engineers and builders .

DXC plans to recruit these engineers from its existing pool of engineering professionals. They will undergo training and certification through Anthropic Academy, Anthropic’s training and certification program for partner engineers, supplemented by DXC’s own curriculum for mission-critical systems . A report from MarketWatch notes the goal is for participants to complete certification within 90 days, gaining daily access to Claude and acquiring practical skills in designing and deploying agentic AI systems .

This is not a small skunkworks project. It signals an intent to make Claude expertise a core competency across one of the world's largest IT services firms, a direct attempt to solve the enterprise bottleneck of not having enough people who can safely deploy generative AI.

The Four Initial Application Areas

The alliance begins in four specific domains where DXC already operates large-scale customer environments and where Claude’s agentic capabilities can deliver value quickly :

1. Insurance — DXC will use Claude to provide agentic solutions that modernize core insurance platforms, tailoring implementations to each customer’s business context, operating model, and strategic goals .
2. Modernization as a Service (MaaS) — Claude will help enterprise customers analyze, refactor, and modernize legacy codebases. The aim is to accelerate these historically slow, expensive projects with greater accuracy .
3. Cybersecurity — For the DXC OASIS platform, the companies are developing an always-on security engineer subagent built on Claude Security. This agent will be deployed across DXC’s security operations centers (SOCs) to augment threat detection and response .
4. Application Services — DXC is building OASIS agents that embed Claude directly into the application maintenance and management environments it operates for enterprise customers .

By targeting these specific operational areas rather than broad “innovation” categories, the alliance focuses on measurable improvements to core IT work: keeping systems secure, modernizing old code, and managing the applications that run global businesses.

The OASIS Foundation: Proven Results Before the Partnership

This alliance is not a speculative bet. The partnership formalizes and expands a relationship that was already delivering results.

In April 2026, DXC launched DXC OASIS, its AI-native orchestration platform for managed services. Claude is the default foundation model powering the platform’s agentic workflows . Before the global alliance was signed, DXC used Claude internally to build OASIS itself, and the metrics it reported were striking :

• Claude generated over 95% of the code for OASIS, with human engineers reviewing the output.
• DXC estimates Claude accelerated software development by a factor of 10x compared to traditional methods.
• As of the alliance announcement, OASIS was already in production with more than 50 joint customers and a global rollout underway .

By proving Claude could meet DXC’s own stringent security and compliance requirements internally, the company created a reference architecture that de-risks the model for its most regulated clients .

The Broader Context: Anthropic’s Partner Network Matures

The DXC alliance marks a significant escalation of Anthropic’s enterprise channel strategy. Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network on March 12, 2026, anchored by a $100 million commitment for the year and initial partnerships with the “Big Four” global consultancy firms: Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant, and Infosys .

Just days before the DXC announcement, on June 3, 2026, Anthropic added two major extensions to the network :

• A tiered Services Track with more than 100 launch partners. The program includes four tiers based on deployment experience, not company size, with plans to graduate the first cohort of potentially hundreds of partners around October 2026 .
• A new Claude Partner Hub, designed to help enterprises identify qualified partners to deploy and manage Claude-powered systems .

With DXC now joining as a Global Premier partner alongside the Big Four, Anthropic is signaling that it intends to build enterprise distribution through systems integrators who manage real IT operations, not just through advisory consultancies or direct sales . For regulated industries that cannot simply plug into a public API, this partner-driven model may be the only path to production at scale.