Accenture (ACN) has formed a multi-year partnership with Anthropic (ANTHRO) to form the Accenture Anthropic Business Group, a new initiative to help enterprises build their own software applications utilizing Claude Code.
The new group plans to train about 30,000 employees on the use of Claude Code, who will in turn offer AI-powered software development to a range of industries such as financial services, life sciences, health care and the public sector.
“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 Accenture CEO Julie Sweet. “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.”
“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 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
The utilization of Claude Code helps junior developers produce senior-level code, the companies said, prompting quicker integration and onboarding. Claude will be used in Accenture Innovation Hubs. These are centers that allow enterprises to test and validate new software in a controlled environment before enterprise-wide deployment. The companies will also launch the Claude Center of Excellence inside Accenture, which focuses on AI for specific industry requirements and regulations.
The new partnership follows Accenture’s recent deal with OpenAI (OPENAI). Earlier this month, the Dublin-based professional services company announced a new partnership with OpenAI to help enterprise clients integrate AI agents at scale. That agreement also includes training tens of thousands of its employees on ChatGPT Enterprise.