EPAM Systems and Anthropic Announce Multi-Year Deal — 10,000 Claude-Certified Enterprise Architects

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EPAM Systems and Anthropic announced a multi-year partnership on May 6, with EPAM committing to certify 10,000 architects on Claude for enterprise AI transformation deployments. This is significant because it signals the emergence of a Claude-specific enterprise services ecosystem — similar to the Salesforce and AWS partner certification models — and suggests Anthropic is building an enterprise moat through professional services lock-in rather than just API pricing.