Accenture and Anthropic launched a partnership that revolves around driving Claude deployments in the enterprise.
The news lands a few days after Accenture announced a similar partnership with OpenAI.
Here's the reality with the Accenture and Anthropic and OpenAI deals: Implementing AI isn't as easy as portrayed and both LLM providers are going to need partners and integrators to scale. The hyperscale cloud providers, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, all have extensive partner ecosystems and Google Cloud and AWS have their own models.
Under the Anthropic deal, Accenture will train 30,000 consultants to drive Claude adoption and become a premier AI partner for using Claude Code.
The two companies will also deliver joint offerings for CIOs and deploying AI in financial services, life sciences, health and public sector.
For Anthropic, the Accenture deal is about distribution.
As for Accenture's OpenAI partnership, the consulting firm agreed to leverage ChatGPT Enterprise internally and be a primary AI partner.
The companies also launched an AI program also aimed at multiple industries including financial services, life sciences, health and public sector.
