Accenture has established an Nvidia Business Group, comprising 30,000 professionals, aimed at preparing enterprises for the AI era.
The initiative focuses on equipping Accenture’s team to help clients reinvent processes and enhance enterprise AI adoption through AI agents, as stated by Lan Guan, Accenture's chief AI officer, during a recent press briefing.
"We are living in the future we envision, starting within our own organization,” Guan remarked. “We are reinventing our business.”
Accenture plans to leverage its current workforce while also training existing employees and hiring new talent to achieve the 30,000-person target, though Guan did not specify the number of new hires or investment amounts for the partnership.
“Demand for generative AI (GenAI) is not slowing down,” Guan emphasized. “We are joining forces to boost adoption, enabling clients to leverage generative AI as a competitive edge.”
Justin Boitano, Nvidia’s vice president of enterprise AI software, added, “Every job function can benefit. Many customers are not AI experts, but Accenture's team has heavily invested in this expertise.”
This new group signifies an expanded partnership between Accenture and Nvidia. With generative AI driving $3 billion in Accenture bookings last fiscal year, the group aims to help clients implement agentic AI functionality using Accenture’s AI Refinery. This platform utilizes Nvidia’s comprehensive AI stack—Nvidia AI Foundry, Nvidia AI Enterprise, and Nvidia Omniverse—to advance process reinvention, AI-powered simulation, and sovereign AI capabilities, ultimately facilitating Nvidia's sales of AI processors.
Guan stated that the Accenture AI Refinery will be accessible on all public and private cloud platforms, seamlessly integrating with other Accenture Business Groups to accelerate AI adoption across the SaaS and Cloud AI ecosystem.
“We are breaking new ground with our partnership with Nvidia, enabling our clients to leverage generative AI as a catalyst for transformation,” said Julie Sweet, Accenture's chair and CEO. “The Accenture AI Refinery will help companies rethink their processes, discover innovative ways of working, and scale AI solutions enterprise-wide to drive ongoing change and create value.”
When asked if the group would operate as a separate division, Accenture confirmed that the Accenture Nvidia Business Group is wholly owned by Accenture. This structure brings together premier technologies from partners with Accenture’s industry expertise to assist clients in reinventing their businesses. The group will leverage Accenture’s AI Refinery and Nvidia’s technology for rapid deployment and scaling of AI solutions.
“AI will enable enterprises to innovate faster on a larger scale,” stated Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “Our platform, combined with Accenture’s AI Refinery and our joint expertise, will help businesses and nations accelerate transformation, driving unprecedented productivity and growth.”
Scaling Agentic AI for Enterprises
The new Accenture Nvidia Business Group aims to enhance generative AI momentum and assist clients in scaling agentic AI systems—an evolved form of generative AI that facilitates unprecedented productivity and growth. This initiative includes a significant investment in training over 30,000 professionals to support clients in reinventing processes and advancing enterprise AI adoption.
Agentic AI systems mark a significant advancement in generative AI. Unlike traditional systems, which require human prompts, agentic AI can interpret user intent, create workflows, and execute appropriate actions autonomously, thereby transforming entire processes.
Accenture and Nvidia are already collaborating on several projects to help clients adopt and scale agentic AI systems. For instance, IndosatGroup recently announced Indonesia's first sovereign AI, allowing secure AI deployment while ensuring data governance compliance. This partnership aims to develop industry-specific solutions using Nvidia AI software and accelerated computing for local enterprises, beginning with the financial services sector.
Furthermore, Accenture plans to introduce the Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprint for virtual facility robot fleet simulation. This integration of Nvidia Omniverse, Isaac, and Metropolis software will empower industrial companies to construct autonomous, robot-operated software-defined factories.
Accenture will implement these capabilities at Eclipse Automation, its manufacturing automation company, resulting in design enhancements of up to 50% and a 30% reduction in cycle time for its clients.
Network of AI Engineering Hubs
As part of its Center for Advanced AI, Accenture is launching a network of engineering hubs dedicated to utilizing agentic AI systems to transform large-scale operations. These hubs will specialize in selecting, fine-tuning, and conducting large-scale inferencing of foundation models, which present challenges in accuracy, cost, latency, and compliance.
Building on existing hubs in Mountain View, California, and Bangalore, Accenture is expanding with new AI Refinery Engineering Hubs in Singapore, Tokyo, Málaga, and London.
In addition to these advancements at Eclipse Automation, Accenture’s marketing function is integrating the AI Refinery platform with autonomous agents, aiming to streamline campaign creation and execution. This integration is expected to reduce manual steps by 25% to 35%, achieve cost savings of 6%, and increase speed to market by 25% to 55%.
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