Accenture and Anthropic partner to boost enterprise AI integration

Accenture and Anthropic are setting out to boost enterprise AI integration with a newly-expanded partnership.

While 2024 was defined by corporate curiosity regarding Large Language Models (LLMs), the current mandate for business leaders is operationalising these tools to achieve a return on investment.

The new Accenture Anthropic Business Group combines Anthropic’s model capabilities with Accenture’s implementation machinery to industrialise the deployment of generative AI across regulated sectors.

Industrialising the developer workflow

A primary component of this collaboration focuses on software engineering. Coding assistance is often seen as the path of least resistance for AI adoption, yet integrating these tools into existing CI/CD pipelines remains complex.

Accenture is positioning itself as a primary partner for Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding tool, which the company claims now holds over half of the AI coding market. The consultancy plans to train approximately 30,000 of its own professionals on Claude, crea...