Accenture and Anthropic have announced an expanded partnership to help businesses move from testing AI to fully using it in their operations. They are creating the Accenture Anthropic Business Group, which will train around 30,000 professionals to use Anthropic's AI models, including Claude. This initiative will help businesses adopt AI faster with less risk by giving ready-made AI expertise.
The partnership also introduces a new joint product for CIOs, planned to help companies scale AI-powered software development. The product will utilize Claude Code to enhance how enterprise artificial intelligence is made, making development faster as well as more efficient. It will also help businesses measure the value of AI and boost productivity, enabling quicker releases, shorter development cycles, and faster product launches.
The new offering will connect Accenture's expertise in AI, industries, as well as cloud services, with Anthropic's Claude models, making it simple for companies in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, the public sector, etc., to leverage AI services. The partnership focuses on driving large-scale AI adoption, improving developer productivity as well as accelerating the development process for businesses.
The partnership is focused on guaranteeing responsible AI. It combines Anthropic's AI principles with Accenture's expertise in AI governance, helping businesses use AI safely, transparently, and responsibly.
To help large companies use AI, Accenture is bringing Claude into its Accenture Innovation Hubs. These hubs will let companies test as well as develop AI solutions in safe, controlled environments before using them on a larger scale. This will help businesses experiment with AI without risking their main systems or sensitive data.
Executive Statement
According to Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO, Accenture, this exciting expansion of our partnership with Anthropic will help their clients accelerate the shift from experimenting with AI to using it as a catalyst for reinvention across the enterprise. With the powerful combination of Anthropic’s Claude capabilities and Accenture’s AI expertise and industry and function domain knowledge, organizations can embed AI everywhere responsibly and at speed—from software development to customer experience—to drive innovation, unlock new sources of growth and build their confidence to lead in the age of AI.
