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Accenture and Anthropic have announced a multi-year partnership to help enterprises transition from AI pilots to full-scale deployment. The collaboration includes the formation of the Accenture Anthropic Business Group and the training of approximately 30,000 Accenture professionals on Claude. Additionally, the initiative introduces joint offerings focused on software development and regulated industries.
Anthropic and Accenture today announced a major expansion of their partnership to help enterprises move from AI pilots to full-scale deployment. Key elements of the announcement:
The announcement comes as Anthropic's enterprise market share has grown from 24% to 40%*.
"AI is changing how almost everyone works, and enterprises need both cutting-edge AI and trusted expertise to deploy it at scale. Accenture brings deep enterprise transformation experience, and Anthropic brings the most capable models. Our new partnership means that tens of thousands of Accenture developers will be using Claude Code, making this our largest ever deployment—and the new Accenture Anthropic Business Group will help enterprise clients use our smartest AI models to make major productivity gains,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic .
Claude Code accelerates developer productivity at every level. Junior developers produce senior-level code, completing integration tasks faster and onboarding in weeks instead of months. Senior developers shift to higher-value work, including architecture, validation, and strategic oversight.
Accenture clients can contact their account team to discuss deployment options. Enterprises can visit our Enterprise page to learn more about Claude. Claude is the only frontier model available on all three of the world's most prominent cloud services, including Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure.
The offering puts Claude Code, which now holds over half* of the AI coding market, at the center of the enterprise software development lifecycle, combined with three Accenture capabilities: a framework to quantify real productivity gains and ROI, workflow redesign for AI-first development teams, and change management and training that keeps pace as AI evolves. This can help enterprises turn developer productivity gains into company-wide impact for customers through faster releases, shorter development cycles, and the ability to bring new products to market sooner.
To support hands-on engagement with the world's largest enterprises, Accenture is bringing Claude into its network of Accenture Innovation Hubs. These hubs serve as centers for safe AI co-creation, enabling Global 2000 clients to prototype, test, and validate AI solutions in controlled environments before enterprise-wide deployment. This addresses a critical barrier to AI adoption at scale: the need for large organizations to experiment and learn without risking production systems or sensitive data.
“This exciting expansion of our partnership with Anthropic will help our clients accelerate the shift from experimenting with AI to using it as a catalyst for reinvention across the enterprise,” said Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO , Accenture. “With the powerful combination of Anthropic’s Claude capabilities and Accenture’s AI expertise and industry and function domain knowledge, organizations can embed AI everywhere responsibly and at speed—from software development to customer experience—to drive innovation, unlock new sources of growth and build their confidence to lead in the age of AI.”
The new Accenture Anthropic Business Group makes Anthropic one of Accenture’s select strategic partners. Accenture Business Groups are dedicated practices built around Accenture’s most important technology partnerships. Each has its own teams, go-to-market focus, and specialized expertise, reflecting the depth of investment and long-term commitment involved.
Approximately 30,000 Accenture professionals that will be trained on Claude, including forward deployed engineers (also known as “reinvention deployed engineers” at Accenture) who help embed Claude within client environments to scale enterprise AI adoption. This will comprise one of the largest ecosystems of Claude practitioners in the world. These teams combine Accenture's AI, industry, and function expertise—along with deep partnerships with leading cloud providers—with Anthropic's Claude models and Claude Code, plus its proven playbooks for regulated industries.
This partnership highlights the growing industry trend of bridging the gap between AI experimentation and production-scale enterprise deployment through dedicated business groups and specialized developer tooling.