Accenture, NVIDIA partner to accelerate enterprise AI adoption
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES—Accenture and NVIDIA have announced an expanded partnership to revolutionize enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) adoption.
This collaboration introduces the new Accenture NVIDIA Business Group, designed to help global enterprises rapidly scale their AI implementation.
New business group to drive AI innovation
The Accenture NVIDIA Business Group will be supported by over 30,000 professionals receiving specialized training to help clients reinvent processes and scale enterprise AI adoption.
“We are breaking significant new ground with our partnership with NVIDIA and enabling our clients to be at the forefront of using generative AI as a catalyst for reinvention,” said Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO, Accenture.
The group will leverage Accenture’s AI Refinery platform, which utilizes the full NVIDIA AI stack, including NVIDIA AI Foundry, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, and NVIDIA Omniverse.
“Accenture AI Refinery will create opportunities for companies to reimagine their processes and operations, discover new ways of working, and scale AI solutions across the enterprise to help drive continuous change and create value,” Sweet added.
Global network of AI engineering hubs
To support the initiative, Accenture is expanding its network of AI Refinery Engineering Hubs. Building on existing facilities in Mountain View, California, and Bangalore (India), new hubs will be established in Singapore, Tokyo (Japan), Malaga (Spain), and London (United Kingdom).
These hubs will serve 57,000 Accenture AI practitioners, providing expertise in agentic architecture and foundation model development. This global network will focus on the selection, fine-tuning, and large-scale inferencing of foundation models, addressing critical challenges in accuracy, cost, latency, and compliance.
Real-world applications and results
The partnership is already yielding tangible results across various sectors:
- Industrial Automation: Accenture will implement a new NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprint for virtual facility robot fleet simulation at Eclipse Automation, an Accenture-owned manufacturing automation company. This integration is expected to deliver up to 50% faster designs and a 30% reduction in cycle time for clients.
- Marketing Optimization: Accenture’s marketing function is integrating the AI Refinery platform with autonomous agents, resulting in a 25-35% reduction in manual steps, 6% cost savings, and an anticipated 25-55% increase in speed to market.
A global leader in professional services, Accenture’s revenue for the fourth quarter was $16.4 billion, reflecting a 3% increase in U.S. dollars and a 5% rise in local currency compared to the previous year.
The company operates in more than 120 countries and has an approximately 750,000-person workforce. For the second consecutive year, it ranked #1 in the OA500 2024, an objective index of the world’s top 500 outsourcing companies.
