Accenture and Anthropic have announced a major expansion of their partnership, forming the Accenture Anthropic Business Group to help enterprises transition from AI experimentation to full-scale deployment. The initiative includes training approximately 30,000 Accenture professionals on Anthropic's Claude models and launching a new joint offering to scale AI-powered software development for CIOs.
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Accenture and Anthropic form a new business group to scale enterprise AI deployment.
Approximately 30,000 Accenture professionals will be trained on Anthropic's Claude models.
A new joint offering for CIOs focuses on scaling AI-powered software development with Claude Code.
The partnership will co-develop solutions for regulated industries like finance, healthcare, and life sciences.
Accenture will establish a Claude Center of Excellence and integrate Claude into its Innovation Hubs.
The alliance combines Anthropic's frontier models with Accenture's industry expertise and global scale.
The cornerstone of the expanded partnership is the formation of the Accenture Anthropic Business Group, designating Anthropic as one of Accenture's select strategic partners. Approximately 30,000 Accenture professionals will receive training on Claude, creating one of the world's largest ecosystems of Claude practitioners. This talent pool, combining Accenture's industry and functional expertise with Anthropic's models, is designed to provide enterprises with a ready-made bench of experts to accelerate AI deployment from pilot to production with reduced risk.
The first concrete product from this alliance is a new joint offering tailored for CIOs to measure value and drive large-scale AI adoption across engineering organizations. This offering places Claude Code at the center of the software development lifecycle, augmented by Accenture's frameworks for quantifying ROI, redesigning AI-first workflows, and managing organizational change. The goal is to transform developer productivity—where junior developers can produce senior-level code and senior developers can focus on strategic oversight—into faster product releases and shorter development cycles enterprise-wide.
The partnership will also co-develop industry-specific solutions, with an initial focus on highly regulated sectors such as financial services, life sciences, healthcare, and the public sector. These solutions will leverage Claude's ability to process complex documents and Accenture's deep regulatory expertise to automate compliance, streamline clinical trials, and improve citizen services. The collaboration is underpinned by a shared commitment to responsible AI, combining Anthropic's constitutional AI principles with Accenture's governance expertise to ensure safe, transparent deployments.
To facilitate hands-on enterprise engagement, Accenture will integrate Claude into its global network of Innovation Hubs, creating safe environments for co-creation and prototyping. The companies will also co-invest in a Claude Center of Excellence within Accenture for designing tailored AI offerings. This expansive partnership signifies a critical step in industrializing generative AI, providing enterprises with the integrated talent, technology, and trust frameworks needed to embed AI responsibly at scale.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading solutions and global professional services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 779,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most AI-enabled, client-focused, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at accenture.com.
About Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI research and development company that creates reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Anthropic’s flagship product is Claude, a family of foundational AI models designed for enterprise applications. Learn more about Anthropic and Claude at anthropic.com.
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