Accenture announced a multi‑year partnership with AI research firm Anthropic, creating an Accenture‑Anthropic Business Group that will train roughly 30,000 Accenture employees on Claude, the company’s generative‑AI model, and Claude Code, its coding‑assistant tool.
The deal deepens Accenture’s AI portfolio and positions the consulting giant to embed Claude’s enterprise‑grade models across its consulting, technology, and managed‑services offerings, with a particular focus on regulated sectors such as financial services, life sciences, healthcare and the public sector. By partnering with Anthropic, Accenture can accelerate the transition of clients from AI pilots to production‑ready systems, expanding its market reach in high‑regulation environments.
Training 30,000 employees is part of Accenture’s broader AI investment strategy. In Q1 FY2025 the company booked $1.2 billion in new generative‑AI revenue, a 9% year‑over‑year increase that helped lift total revenue to $17.7 billion and prompted a 4%–7% revenue‑growth outlook for the full fiscal year. The partnership aligns with that momentum and signals a continued focus on AI‑driven growth.
Julie Sweet, Accenture’s chair and CEO, said the partnership “will help our clients accelerate the shift from experimenting with AI to using it as a catalyst for reinvention across the enterprise.” She added that the combination of Anthropic’s Claude capabilities and Accenture’s industry expertise will enable responsible, rapid AI deployment from software development to customer experience, unlocking new growth opportunities.
Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, noted that the partnership represents the company’s largest deployment to date, with tens of thousands of Accenture developers using Claude Code. He emphasized that the new business group will help enterprise clients harness Anthropic’s smartest AI models to achieve major productivity gains.
The partnership is expected to reinforce Accenture’s competitive position in the AI services market, where the firm is already a leader in AI‑enabled transformation. By integrating Claude’s models into its offerings, Accenture can offer clients a broader, more advanced AI toolkit, potentially driving higher‑margin AI services and new revenue streams in regulated industries that demand robust compliance and security.
Overall, the Accenture‑Anthropic partnership signals a sustained commitment to AI, reinforcing the company’s strategy to deliver AI‑powered solutions at scale and to capture growing demand for responsible, high‑impact AI across its global client base.
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