Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and OpenAI 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 deal, Accenture will equip professionals with ChatGPT Enterprise, leveraging it in its consulting, operations and delivery work, and will “help OpenAI scale its capabilities to enterprises.”
Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO of Accenture said that by combining OpenAI technologies with Accenture’s industry and functional expertise and delivery capabilities, they “will accelerate enterprise reinvention and business outcomes for our clients,”
Sweet added that they are also pleased “to help Open AI become its own best credential.”
Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI said that 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.”
Simo further stated that Accenture is now putting ChatGPT in the hands of of its professionals to help teams and clients “move faster, strengthen their workflows, and generate real economic value.”
To extend the impact of their collab to clients, OpenAI and Accenture are launching an 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 AI-first enterprise solutions focused on key corporate functions, such “as customer service, supply chain, finance, HR and other critical operations.”
Accenture will use OpenAI AgentKit to “help clients design, test and deploy custom AI agents that automate workflows, augment decision-making and accelerate reinvention.”
As part of the collab, Accenture teams will now 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 now “apply its learnings and experiences to helping clients scale their own adoption.”
Accenture is helping OpenAI scale its own business, building on a vision to help OpenAI “bring artificial intelligence to organizations.”
This includes Accenture and OpenAI working together “on design and delivery of globally scaled front- and back-office functions.”
By placing OpenAI various technologies at the center / 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.”