Accenture Leverages AI With A Series of Investments & Acquisitions
Accenture and Databricks Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of AI Applications and Agents at Scale
- Clients across industries, such as Albertsons, BASF, and Kyowa Kirin International are working with Accenture and Databricks to build agent-ready databases and AI applications on their enterprise data
- New Accenture Databricks Business Group will be supported by more than 25,000 Databricks-trained professionals—including the largest certified talent pool in the ecosystem—to support joint customers in deploying and scaling Lakebase, Genie, Agent Bricks, and Lakehouse
New York, NY (Mar. 17, 2026) – Accenture and Databricks, the Data and AI company, are helping global organizations unlock the full potential of their enterprise data and scale adoption of AI applications and agents. As part of a strategic expansion of their partnership, the companies are launching the Accenture Databricks Business Group, with a focus on helping clients adopt Databricks as their core data and AI platform. Together, the companies will help clients leverage Databricks’ newest innovations including Lakebase for serverless Postgres databases built for AI, Genie to let any employee chat with their data, and Agent Bricks for high-quality agents built on enterprise data.
Organizations struggle to scale AI due to fragmented data and legacy infrastructure that silo information and stall innovation. To deliver real impact, companies need a unified data foundation and industry expertise to centralize governance, move AI from experimentation to production and make data and AI more accessible to teams across the business. Accenture and Databricks help to bridge the gap between data potential and business performance by combining the Databricks platform with global industry expertise to help enterprises build and scale AI applications and agents.
“With Databricks, we’re helping clients modernize their data foundation so they can build, scale and govern AI applications and agents with confidence,” said Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO, Accenture. “Together, Accenture’s reinvention expertise and the Databricks platform help accelerate the shift from experimentation to production, safely scaling AI that delivers real business outcomes.”
“AI has reached a point where business impact is the only metric that matters,” said Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-Founder of Databricks. “More enterprises are using Lakebase to create operational databases that can scale with agents and Genie to get AI in the hands of every employee. Our work with Accenture allows us to help more organizations deploy AI securely and responsibly so they can achieve the outcomes they care about most.”
Delivering Client Value Across Geographies
Accenture and Databricks are already helping clients like Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, deliver an agentic solution to reimagine pricing intelligence. Combining lookback analysis, forward looking intelligence and explainability, a “merchant twin” puts a hyper-precision capability in the hands of merchants and category managers. This actionable information drives margin expansion and revenue growth through a carefully balanced strategic category plan and tactical promotion calendar.
“Albertsons Companies is committed to leading the future of retail intelligence through purposeful investments in technology and AI,” said Anuj Dhanda, EVP and Chief Technology and Transformation Officer at Albertsons Companies. “By strategically partnering with tech leaders including Accenture, Databricks and OpenAI, we are tapping into the power of our data and applying AI-powered solutions to operations, enabling our people to make smarter, faster and more consistent decisions, while strengthening our customer value proposition to better serve over 36 million customers in stores and online each week.”
BASF is a German multinational and the world’s largest chemical company. Working with Accenture and Databricks, BASF built an internal digital assistant, FOX, for Finance and Controlling functions. Built on the Databricks platform, FOX is designed to act as a digital colleague that brings structure, guidance, and clarity to daily work, rather than adding another standalone tool.
“We worked alongside Accenture and Databricks to create a digital assistant that understands our processes and supports our colleagues,” said Alican Polat, Divisional AI lead, BASF. “Today, FOX answers questions when they are asked. In the future, FOX will look at the data independently, detect patterns earlier and prepare insights before someone even requests them.”
Global specialty pharmaceutical company Kyowa Kirin International (KKI) is committed to the robust management and governance of data to ensure ethical and compliant practices. Accenture and Avanade helped KKI to modernize their data infrastructure using Databricks Lakehouse and medallion architecture to empower employees with accurate, timely data and insights.
“We wanted to become a data-led organization, and we knew that the power of data starts with trust. Once you start believing in your data, the sky’s the limit,” said Sudeep Gupta, Director of Data, KKI. “Now, Accenture is helping us look at the art of the possible and how we can use the Databricks platform to continue innovating and improving patient outcomes.”
Introducing the Accenture Databricks Business Group
The Accenture Databricks Business Group will be supported by more than 25,000 Databricks-trained professionals, including the largest certified talent pool in the ecosystem. Through the new group, the companies can help even more enterprises scale Lakebase, Genie, Agent Bricks, and Lakehouse within their technology environments to democratize data and AI. Together, the companies are focused on delivering the following capabilities to global clients:
- Databases reimagined for the AI era: Helping more enterprises leverage Lakebase to develop an open, scalable transactional database, designed for building AI apps and agents.
- Putting data and AI in the hands of every team: Helping data teams implement and scale Genie, Databricks’ conversational AI assistant, so any employee can ask questions in plain language and get accurate answers from governed data to make faster, more confident decisions.
- Multi-agent systems for the enterprise: Supporting organizations with the development of production-ready AI agents that reason on their enterprise data. Enterprises are shifting from single chatbots to multi-agent systems, reporting a 327% increase in these systems in just four months.
- Industry-specific solutions: Tailoring data and AI use cases across industries, including financial services, retail, life sciences, telecommunications, and the public sector, to address sector-specific challenges and opportunities.
- Multi-cloud flexibility: Enabling enterprises to scale Databricks on their preferred cloud, accelerating time to value while optimizing cost, resilience, and governance.
- Data migrations and modernization: Helping enterprises move from legacy systems to Databricks for unified data management and governance.
Accenture and Databricks also recently launched a university program across India to train final-semester students from top engineering institutes who will join Accenture after graduation, equipping them to deliver customer value from day one. This initiative supports Databricks’ commitment to invest $250 million in India over the next three years.
Accenture has been recognized as Databricks’ Global SI Partner of the Year for seven consecutive years, reflecting the strength of the partnership in delivering industry-leading solutions, accelerating customer transformation, and driving client success.
Learn more about Accenture and Databricks’ partnership here.
About Accenture
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is a leading solutions and 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 786,000 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 client-focused, AI-enabled, 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. Learn more at www.accenture.com.
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide—including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500—rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Genie, Lakebase, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. For more information, visit www.databricks.com.
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Accenture Launches Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineering Practice to Help Organizations Scale AI Across the Enterprise
AI-first, industry-aligned practice to accelerate frontier transformation powered by Microsoft AI
New York, NY (Mar. 18, 2026) – Accenture is collaborating with Microsoft to launch a forward deployed engineering (FDE) practice, designed to help organizations more rapidly design, build, and operationalize AI across the enterprise.
Most enterprise AI initiatives stall not for lack of technology, but for lack of the right engineering expertise applied in the right place. Through the new practice, Accenture and Microsoft will bring together thousands of AI-skilled engineers to work directly with clients—pairing Microsoft’s frontier AI capabilities with Accenture’s deep industry and workflow experience to help break through barriers and deliver outcomes at scale.
“AI value does not come from technology access but from the ability to convert it into sustained business impact,” said Manish Sharma, chief strategy and services officer at Accenture. “Enterprise AI succeeds when strategy and engineering operate as one. This collaboration with Microsoft establishes a new model that puts engineers at the center of AI transformation—one that moves from ambition to measurable outcomes at enterprise scale.”
“What customers are asking us for is a clear path to business outcomes powered by AI,” said Nick Parker, executive vice president and chief business officer, Microsoft. “Microsoft’s end-to-end AI platform for both intelligence and trust combined with Accenture’s industry expertise will enable the FDE crews to quickly create the highest quality outcomes for customers.”
Together, the companies will work shoulder-to-shoulder with clients to help take AI from idea to production in days, not months. Microsoft will provide the platform and technology innovation, while Accenture leads change management, process redesign, industry workflows and global deployment at scale. Joint teams will co-innovate directly with clients using Microsoft’s Frontier Suite of products, and proven accelerators to help deliver and scale measurable AI impact.
This practice builds on Accenture and Microsoft’s longstanding strategic partnership. The new FDE practice will serve as the gateway for enterprise AI transformation, helping thousands of clients achieve end-to-end reinvention through the practical application of AI.
About Accenture
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is a leading solutions and 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 786,000 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 client-focused, AI-enabled, 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. Learn more at www.accenture.com.
Accenture Collaborates with Microsoft to Bring Agentic Security and Business Resilience to the Front Lines of Cyber Defense
New York, NY (Mar. 19, 2026) – Accenture has announced new assets and capabilities for its Adaptive Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR), empowering clients to augment their Microsoft Security platforms with advanced, integrated solutions. Accenture and Microsoft, together with their joint venture Avanade, will deliver more advanced agentic AI-driven cybersecurity solutions and better data analytics designed to help organizations mitigate threats faster, optimize security operations and strengthen overall business resilience.
According to Accenture’s latest State of Cybersecurity Resilience research, 74% of CEOs worry about their organization’s ability to minimize cyberattacks. This concern highlights the urgent need for modern, agentic AI-powered cybersecurity solutions like Accenture MxDR for Microsoft, which autonomously addresses these needs, minimizes the impact of cyberattacks and helps organizations build true business resilience.
“Cybersecurity teams have long faced significant challenges in managing massive datasets, and scaling security management tools and overcoming staffing resource limitations,” said Harpreet Sidhu, global lead, Accenture Cybersecurity. “With Accenture MxDR for Microsoft, we’re helping organizations harness agentic AI-powered solutions to supercharge cyberattack detection and proactive remediation, enabling security teams to focus on strategic priorities and driving risk reduction while autonomous agents handle routine threat scenarios.”
Key features and benefits of the Accenture MxDR for Microsoft include innovative agentic AI capabilities that will help provide dynamic protection and prevention against cyber threats:
- Unifies security data for faster, smarter cyber defense – it rapidly allows activating or onboarding Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Threat Intelligence and Identity, and other security capabilities to centralize telemetry from multiple sources to provide an enhanced understanding of emerging threats. This will also use the new Sentinel data lake, allowing for faster and more accurate threat detection with AI-powered analytics for rapid investigation, containment and response. The integration breaks down silos and helps cybersecurity teams operate with greater speed and precision.
- MxDR AI Agents for enhanced visibility – Used in combination with Microsoft Security AI agents and unified Threat Intelligence, delivers proprietary agentic AI capabilities to help operational teams proactively identify areas of improvement, remove common blind spots such as a lack of visibility across different security layers and dynamically reduces noise.
- Comprehensive, centralized Accenture Content Library and Factory – Protects against well-known and future threats by utilizing an engineering Factory that develops telemetry collectors, detection mechanisms, response workflows, threat hunting data models, dashboards, reports and AI agents enabling seamless deployment on enterprise systems via an Industry specific Library.
- Accenture E5 Acceleration Packages for improved resiliency – Provides a guided approach for adopting Microsoft Security capabilities such as Purview, Entra, Intune and others with pre-packaged content from Accenture’s Content Library to strengthen organizational protection and resiliency. It enables accelerated implementation and can deliver a faster, better, and more cost-effective path to resiliency.
“We’re proud to deepen our collaboration with Accenture to help customers secure their digital estates with end-to-end visibility and faster response times,” said Steve Dispensa, Corporate Vice President, Security Solution Area, Microsoft. “The Accenture Adaptive MxDR for Microsoft combines Accenture’s managed services and security expertise with the breadth of Microsoft’s AI-powered platform to help organizations reduce complexity, strengthen defenses and scale resilience.”
Learn more about how Accenture and Microsoft are co-investing in the development of advanced, generative AI-driven cybersecurity solutions, helping organizations stay ahead of evolving threats and optimize operational costs here.
About Accenture
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is a leading solutions and 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 786,000 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 client-focused, AI-enabled, 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. Learn more at www.accenture.com.
Accenture Invests in DaVinci Commerce to Advance Agentic AI-Led Shopping
Las Vegas, NV (Mar. 23, 2026) – Accenture has announced an investment in DaVinci Commerce, a leader in agentic AI-powered commerce—a rapidly emerging channel, where AI systems increasingly shape how products are discovered, evaluated and purchased. The investment, made through Accenture Ventures, includes a strategic partnership with Accenture Song.
As AI becomes a primary interface for shopping, commerce is shifting upstream—from human-led search and browsing to AI agents that research, recommend and increasingly transact on behalf of consumers. This evolution is opening a new competitive arena of agentic commerce, where brands must be designed not only for people, but for how AI systems interpret, recommend and act.
Through the partnership, Accenture Song will work with DaVinci Commerce to help clients operationalize agentic commerce across the full value chain—from discovery and merchandising through checkout, fulfilment and loyalty. The collaboration reflects growing demand from brands looking to modernize owned commerce platforms and commerce media strategies for AI-driven engagement.
“AI is rapidly reshaping how consumers engage with every brand,” said Ndidi Oteh, CEO of Accenture Song. “As people increasingly rely on AI‑assisted recommendations and begin delegating decisions to intelligent agents—being discoverable is no longer enough. Brands must be relevant, personable, and ready to transact in agent‑led environments. DaVinci Commerce enables exactly that. Combined with Accenture Song’s strengths in design, data, commerce, and marketing, it empowers clients to move faster and act with confidence.”
DaVinci Commerce uses agentic AI to transform brand assets into AI-native, immersive shopping experiences that can operate across commerce media networks, digital marketplaces and LLM-driven environments. Accenture Song’s design experience and insights can ensure that customer touchpoints are compelling and forward-thinking.
“Agentic commerce changes both when a purchase begins and how value is captured,” said Diaz Nesamoney, founder, DaVinci Commerce. “Working with Accenture allows us to connect AI-native commerce execution with enterprise-scale capabilities in data, payments, supply chain and experience design—areas that will increasingly determine who wins as AI takes on a larger role in shopping.”
Accenture’s investment underscores its broader commitment to helping clients navigate structural shifts in commerce driven by generative AI. With deep experience across strategy, technology, creative, data, supply chain and managed services—and an open ecosystem of partners—Accenture is uniquely positioned to help organizations compete in a world where AI agents increasingly mediate demand and transaction.
Accenture and DaVinci Commerce will be at the Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas from March 24-26, 2026, to showcase how agentic commerce is fundamentally reshaping customer engagement and driving new growth. The companies will co-host an exclusive C-level roundtable and media event, featuring Sucharita Kodali, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, who will provide expert insights into the evolution of commerce media and AI-powered storefronts. For more details, please contact DaVinci Commerce.
About Accenture
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is a leading solutions and 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 786,000 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 client-focused, AI-enabled, 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. Learn more at www.accenture.com.
About DaVinci Commerce
DaVinci Commerce is an AI-powered Commerce Experience Platform (CEP). The company enables global brands to shape how shoppers discover and engage in AI-driven commerce. Its two core products—DaVinci Agentic BrandStore™ and DaVinci Commerce Marketing—work together to give brands control over discovery and activation across modern commerce ecosystems.
DaVinci Agentic BrandStore powers branded, governed conversational experiences inside major large language models, transforming product feeds and brand content into intent-driven discovery journeys. DaVinci Commerce Marketing enables rapid, AI-powered personalization and activation across retail media networks and channels, launching compliant campaigns in minutes.
Together, DaVinci Commerce connects personalized consumer experiences to measurable commerce outcomes—helping brands control discovery and activate at scale.
Trusted by Nestlé, Diageo, Giant Eagle, Nordstrom, and many more, we deliver speed, scale, precision personalization—and measurable growth.
Accenture and Anthropic Team to Help Organizations Secure, Scale AI-Driven Cybersecurity Operations
New York, NY (Mar. 25, 2026) – Accenture has launched Cyber.AI, a new solution powered by Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, that enables organizations to transform their security operations, moving from human-speed response to continuous AI-driven cyber capabilities.
By combining Accenture’s extensive library of proprietary agents with Claude, Cyber.AI builds on more than two decades of Accenture cybersecurity delivery expertise. Together, Cyber.AI and Accenture’s 30,000+ cybersecurity professionals can help clients move faster and make informed decisions at scale. It includes Agent Shield, part of the Cyber.AI Secure AI and Agents capabilities, which helps organizations protect, identify, monitor and govern autonomous AI agents in real-time.
Claude serves as the reasoning engine at the core of Cyber.AI, helping synthesize security data and provide contextual insights across the security lifecycle. Within Cyber.AI, its agentic capabilities support automated workflows by enhancing reasoning, analysis, and decision-making. Cyber.AI leverages Claude’s built-in safety guardrails and enhances them with enterprise-grade governance and controls, including Agent Shield, helping to ensure agents operate in line with organizational policies and risk tolerance.
This solution comes as organizations face a structural shift in the threat landscape. Nearly nine in 10 organizations identify AI-related vulnerabilities as the fastest-growing cyber risk, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Cyber Outlook Report 2026, produced in collaboration with Accenture.
“Adversaries are using AI to compress attack timelines from weeks to hours, while traditional controls are built for human-speed threats,” said Damon McDougald, global Cybersecurity Services lead at Accenture. “With Anthropic’s Claude at the core of Cyber.AI, we can help organizations operate at machine speed and scale, while ensuring the AI systems they deploy are secure and governed from day one.”
Cyber.AI helps organizations protect complex digital environments and manage expanding attack surfaces with greater consistency, without increasing manual effort. By accelerating activities across the cybersecurity lifecycle, from design and deployment through detection and response, the solution helps deliver faster, more measurable outcomes and improve overall cybersecurity posture. It’s an Accenture solution that enables more proactive, intelligence-driven operations while integrating seamlessly with any existing technology environment.
Cyber.AI is demonstrating real-world results across industries. A global Fortune 500 agriculture organization leveraged Cyber.AI agentic capabilities to enhance its identity and access management (IAM) operations and accelerate identity platform migrations with greater precision and confidence. This approach is automating complex cybersecurity processes, strengthening resilience and fundamentally transforming how the organization operates IAM at scale.
By orchestrating AI-driven “missions”, from assessments and triage to remediation and transformation, Cyber.AI helps teams to identify and deploy the right agents to automate specific tasks across the cybersecurity lifecycle. The solution draws from a curated library of agents spanning critical domains such as identity security, cyber defense, secure digital core and cyber resiliency. Within Cyber.AI’s Secure AI and Agents capabilities, Agent Shield will deliver identity controls, threat detection and runtime protection to help secure and govern AI systems at scale.
“Cybersecurity demands AI that can reason across vast amounts of data, act autonomously through complex workflows, and operate within strict governance boundaries,” said Michael Moore, Head of Cybersecurity Products at Anthropic. “That’s what Claude was built for—and it’s why we’re seeing security operations as one of the most impactful applications of agentic AI. Accenture is putting that to work at scale for some of the world’s most complex enterprises.”
Accenture has already deployed Cyber.AI within its own global IT infrastructure to secure 1,600 applications and over 500,000 APIs, resulting in a significant shift in operational efficiency and risk reduction. Through this deployment, scan turnaround times were reduced from three to five days to under one hour, while security testing coverage expanded from approximately 10% to over 80%. This increased efficiency allowed for a dramatic reduction in the backlog of critical vulnerabilities. Additionally, service delivery improved by 35% contributing to consistent year-over-year cost reductions.
“As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are facing a fragmented cybersecurity landscape driven by the rapid growth of non-human identities and autonomous agents,” said Craig Robinson, Research Vice President, IDC. “To keep pace, organizations need to orchestrate agents across their security ecosystem with coordination and scale. With Cyber.AI, Accenture and Anthropic are helping clients modernize their defense operations through purpose-built, on-demand agentic AI security, reshaping how cybersecurity teams will operate.”
About Accenture
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is a leading solutions and 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 786,000 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 client-focused, AI-enabled, 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. Learn more at www.accenture.com.
Accenture Acquires Keepler to Boost Its AI and Data Business in Spain
Madrid, Spain (Apr. 8, 2026) – Accenture has acquired Keepler Data Tech, a Spanish cloud-native AI and data company. The acquisition will expand Accenture’s capabilities to help clients across industries reinvent their core business processes with AI solutions grounded in strong data foundations.
Founded in 2018, Keepler offers AI and data capabilities that cover the end-to-end value chain, from defining a data strategy and building cloud-native data foundations to deploying advanced analytics, gen AI and agentic AI that embed intelligence into core business processes. With a value-realization approach supported by secure, modern data platforms and data readiness, Keepler focuses on industrialized delivery, ethics, compliance and robust observability to optimize automation and decision-making. This comprehensive model helps organizations modernize their data architecture, implement DataOps and MLOps at scale and activate AI across the enterprise to deliver tangible business impact.
More than 240 Keepler professionals will join Accenture. The company, with presence in Madrid, London and Lisbon, has a team that includes technical architects, data scientists, analysts and software engineers among others. They will further strengthen Accenture’s ability to scale AI for clients in Spain and beyond.
Technology is evolving at extraordinary speed, and AI and data are now central to how companies reinvent their businesses, stay competitive and improve their resilience in the current context,” said Mercedes Oblanca, Market Unit Lead for Spain and Portugal at Accenture. “By bringing Keepler into Accenture, we further strengthen our end-to-end AI and data capabilities as well as our agentic AI solutions. Combined with our deep industry, functional and technology expertise, this enables us to support clients as they transform their organizations by harnessing the full potential of AI adoption across their value chains in a secure and responsible way.”
“From day one, our mission at Keepler has been to help organizations turn data and AI into real, scalable outcomes,” said Juan María Aramburu, CEO of Keepler. “By joining Accenture, we accelerate that mission. Together, we will further scale our solutions and drive innovation to clients across Spain and EMEA, empowering them to activate AI with confidence and transform how they operate.”
This acquisition is part of Accenture’s ongoing investments in AI to accelerate clients’ reinvention. Keepler is the latest in a series of strategic acquisitions aimed at expanding Accenture’s AI capabilities, including Faculty; the Palantir consultancy Decho; Palantir certified partner RANGR Data; Salesforce AI consultancy NeuraFlash; and AI company Halfspace.
Terms of the transaction—including the acquisition of the stake held by private equity investment firm DTCP—were not disclosed.
About Accenture
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is a leading solutions and 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 786,000 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 client-focused, AI-enabled, 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. Learn more at www.accenture.com.
Accenture Invests in Replit to Advance AI-Driven Software Development for Enterprises
New York, NY (Apr. 9, 2026) – Accenture has invested, through Accenture Ventures, in Replit, an AI-powered software creation platform company, to help enterprises accelerate the creation of new digital platforms using AI-driven software development. As part of this investment, the two companies are also entering into a strategic partnership.
As organizations across industries pursue AI-driven reinvention, the way software is built is beginning to shift. Traditional development cycles—often slowed by complex environments, infrastructure setup, and lengthy coding processes—are giving way to AI-native approaches that enable teams to move from idea to working application in significantly less time using natural language prompts and agentic AI—an approach increasingly referred to as “vibe coding.”
As part of this partnership, Accenture will collaborate with Replit to explore how AI-driven development can be applied to enterprise environments. The teams will work together to identify practical use cases and new development workflows that can be scaled to Accenture’s clients globally.
“Every enterprise wants to move faster—from idea to working application, and from prototype to production,” said Ram Ramalingam, global lead for Software and Platform Engineering at Accenture. “Our collaboration with Replit puts that capability in the hands of more teams, breaking down the barriers between business vision and technical execution.”
Replit provides a cloud-based platform that combines coding environments with AI-powered development assistance, collaboration tools, and hosting infrastructure in a single workspace. With AI agents capable of generating and modifying code from natural language prompts, teams can rapidly build prototypes, iterate ideas, and deploy applications without the traditional complexity of configuring development environments.
“Our mission has always been to make software creation accessible to anyone with an idea,” said Ghazi Masood, Chief Revenue Officer at Replit. “Partnering with Accenture will allow us to bring AI-driven software development to more enterprises and jointly help teams move from ideas to production faster than ever.”
By combining Accenture’s expertise in scaling emerging technologies for large organizations with Replit’s cloud-based software creation platform, this partnership aims to help enterprises adopt AI-driven development safely while integrating it into existing engineering practices and technology ecosystems.
Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
About Accenture
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is a leading solutions and 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 786,000 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 client-focused, AI-enabled, 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. Learn more at www.accenture.com.
About Replit
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. The company, founded in 2016, has over 50 million users worldwide, including users at 85% of the Fortune 500 companies. Teams at enterprises including Atlassian, Adobe, Databricks and Zillow use Replit to build apps, and the company has partnerships with Google, Stripe and Slack among others. Replit, headquartered in San Francisco, United States, recently introduced Agent 4, its most powerful product yet. For more information, visit replit.com.
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These risks include, without limitation, risks that: the transaction might not achieve the anticipated benefits for Accenture; Accenture’s results of operations have been, and may in the future be, adversely affected by volatile, negative or uncertain economic and geopolitical conditions and the effects of these conditions on the company’s clients’ businesses and levels of business activity; Accenture’s business depends on generating and maintaining client demand for the company’s solutions and services including through the adaptation and expansion of its solutions and services in response to ongoing changes in technology and offerings, and a significant reduction in such demand or an inability to respond to the evolving technological environment could materially affect the company’s results of operations; risks and uncertainties related to the development and use of AI, including advanced AI, could harm the company’s business, damage its reputation or give rise to legal or regulatory action; if Accenture is unable to match people and their skills with client demand around the world and attract and retain professionals with strong leadership skills, the company’s business, the utilization rate of the company’s professionals and the company’s results of operations may be materially adversely affected; Accenture faces legal, reputational and financial risks from any failure to protect client and/or company data from security incidents or cyberattacks; the markets in which Accenture operates are highly competitive, and Accenture might not be able to compete effectively; if Accenture does not successfully manage and develop its relationships with its ecosystem partners or fails to anticipate and establish new alliances in new technologies, the company’s results of operations could be adversely affected; Accenture’s ability to attract and retain business and employees may depend on its reputation in the marketplace; Accenture’s profitability could materially suffer due to pricing pressure, if the company is unable to remain competitive, if its cost-management strategies are unsuccessful or if it experiences delivery inefficiencies or fail to satisfy certain agreed-upon targets or specific service levels; changes in Accenture’s level of taxes, as well as audits, investigations and tax proceedings, or changes in tax laws or in their interpretation or enforcement, could have a material adverse effect on the company’s effective tax rate, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition; Accenture’s results of operations could be materially adversely affected by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; Accenture’s debt obligations could adversely affect its business and financial condition; as a result of Accenture’s geographically diverse operations and strategy to continue to grow in key markets around the world, the company is more susceptible to certain risks; if Accenture is unable to manage the organizational challenges associated with its size, the company might be unable to achieve its business objectives; Accenture might not be successful at acquiring, investing in or integrating businesses, entering into joint ventures or divesting businesses; Accenture’s business could be materially adversely affected if the company incurs legal liability; Accenture’s work with government clients exposes the company to additional risks inherent in the government contracting environment; Accenture’s global operations expose the company to numerous and sometimes conflicting legal and regulatory requirements; if Accenture is unable to protect or enforce its intellectual property rights or if Accenture’s solutions or services infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others or the company loses its ability to utilize the intellectual property of others, its business could be adversely affected; Accenture may be subject to criticism and negative publicity related to its incorporation in Ireland; as well as the risks, uncertainties and other factors discussed under the “Risk Factors” heading in Accenture plc’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this news release speak only as of the date they were made, and Accenture undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements made in this news release or to conform such statements to actual results or changes in Accenture’s expectations.
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