Accenture and Palantir set up business group for AI and data solutions
Accenture and Palantir Technologies have set up the Accenture Palantir Business Group to speed up the rollout of AI and data solutions for clients globally.
Palantir has named Accenture a preferred global partner for enterprise transformation.
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The new business group will bring together dedicated forward-deployed engineers from Palantir. It will also include more than 2,000 Accenture professionals with skills in Palantir technologies and industry and functional expertise, including Accenture forward-deployed engineers.
These teams will work directly with clients to shift from isolated data systems to integrated, AI-based decision-making using Palantir’s platforms.
Palantir CEO and co-founder Dr Alex Karp stated: “Our expanded partnership with Accenture will help enterprises transform themselves at speed and scale using Palantir’s platform.”
The companies plan to support clients across a range of industries.
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By GlobalDataAccenture noted existing activity in government, energy and oil and gas, and intends to develop additional use cases in healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, consumer goods and financial services.
A core focus for the group will be data centre and AI infrastructure operations, which Accenture describes as critical to economic resilience.
Accenture and Palantir will support clients in using Palantir Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform, and in accessing secure computing resources in complex commercial and mission-critical environments.
Accenture chair and CEO Julie Sweet stated: “With this significant expansion of our ecosystem partnership with Palantir, our clients can accelerate advanced AI across the enterprise and deliver business outcomes faster.
“In our focus areas, the combination of Accenture’s broad industry and functional experience with Palantir’s powerful platforms will help enable organisations to build AI and data solutions and develop scaleable enterprise AI systems that drive reinvention, create value and foster growth.”
Accenture has also agreed to acquire a 65% stake in US-based AI data centre engineering and consulting company DLB Associates and its affiliated companies. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
This transaction will broaden its end-to-end data centre capabilities to help software and platforms and high-tech clients speed up time to market and meet demand for AI enablement.
DLB, founded in 1980, works in data centre site selection, due diligence, design engineering, commissioning, construction quality management and energy optimisation services.
Its clients include hyperscalers, emerging hyperscalers, neo-clouds and colocation providers, which it supports by accelerating speed to market and delivering data centre projects.
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