- Accenture to equip tens of thousands of its professionals with ChatGPT Enterprise and have the largest number of professionals upskilled through OpenAI Certifications
- OpenAI will be one of Accenture's primary AI partners for its next generation of AI-powered services
- Flagship AI client program launched to help organizations bring AI into every part of their business
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and OpenAI today announced a collaboration to help enterprise clients unlock new levels of innovation and growth by bringing agentic AI systems into the core of business. As part of the agreement, Accenture will equip tens of thousands of its professionals with ChatGPT Enterprise, leveraging it in its consulting, operations and delivery work, and will help OpenAI scale its capabilities to enterprises.
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Accenture and OpenAI today announced a collaboration to help enterprise clients unlock new levels of innovation and growth by bringing agentic AI systems into the core of business.
"By combining OpenAI breakthrough technologies with Accenture's deep industry and functional expertise and global delivery capabilities, we will accelerate enterprise reinvention and business outcomes for our clients," said Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO of Accenture. "We are also excited to help Open AI become its own best credential."
"Accenture plays an important role in helping companies adopt the technologies that define each new era, and we're excited to partner with them to accelerate the AI transformation of the largest enterprises," said Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI. "In addition, Accenture is now putting ChatGPT in the hands of tens of thousands of its professionals to help teams and clients move faster, strengthen their workflows, and generate real economic value."
Introducing flagship AI program to help enterprises scale agentic AI
To extend the impact of their collaboration to clients, OpenAI and Accenture are launching a new flagship AI program that combines OpenAI enterprise products with Accenture's AI expertise and industry and function domain knowledge. The program will equip Accenture with the latest OpenAI implementation playbooks, industry use-cases, security and deployment insights, and hands-on expertise to help clients adopt AI in real business workflows.
The flagship AI program will help enterprises in industries—including financial services, healthcare, the public sector and retail—turn legacy processes into AI-powered workflows. The program will enable joint clients to adopt OpenAI agentic capabilities—innovative products, model advances and new workflows—faster and with deeper integration across their organizations.
OpenAI and Accenture will collaborate on new, AI-first enterprise solutions focused on key corporate functions, such as customer service, supply chain, finance, HR and other critical operations. For example, Accenture will use OpenAI AgentKit to help clients rapidly design, test and deploy custom AI agents that automate workflows, augment decision-making and accelerate reinvention.
Weaving intelligence throughout Accenture
As part of the collaboration, Accenture teams will be able to leverage ChatGPT Enterprise to support their internal and external work. With ChatGPT Enterprise, Accenture will accelerate AI upskilling across roles through direct access to frontier models.
Building on its commitment to OpenAI Certifications, Accenture will create the largest group of upskilled professionals. By embedding OpenAI technology and practices in Accenture's consulting, operations and delivery work, Accenture will apply its learnings and experiences to helping clients scale their own adoption.
Accenture helping OpenAI scale at an unprecedented pace
Accenture is helping OpenAI rapidly scale its own business, building on a shared vision to help OpenAI bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence to organizations around the world. This includes Accenture and OpenAI working together on design and delivery of globally scaled front- and back-office functions. By placing OpenAI transformative technologies at the core of these operations, the collaboration is redefining how companies build, deploy and manage intelligent business functions at scale and further positions Accenture as the AI partner of choice for the enterprise.
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