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BCC Iccrea Group, Italy's largest cooperative banking group, and Accenture (NYSEACN) have signed a partnership agreement to support the Group's IT transformation within the framework of the broader IT reinvention plan devised by BCC Sistemi Informatici.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in QuSecure ™ a leader in post-quantum cybersecurity. Together, Accenture and QuSecure offer comprehensive post-quantum crypto agility solutions to help government agencies and private sector businesses mitigate emerging quantum risks.

Telstra and Accenture (NYSEACN) today announced a proposed joint venture (JV) to rapidly accelerate Telstra’s data and AI roadmap to further extend its network leadership, improve customer experience, and help its teams operate more efficiently and effectively.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has acquired a digital twin technology platform for banks developed by Percipient, a Singapore-based fintech company with deep experience in banking technology transformation. The acquisition enhances Accenture’s existing banking modernization capabilities, helping financial services clients in Asia Pacific accelerate the reinvention of their core systems, foster innovation and drive growth.

New research from Accenture (NYSEACN) finds a new era of digitization is unfolding—one in which AI continuously learns and drives new levels of autonomy across organizations, positioning trust in its performance as the most important measure organizations will need for AI to achieve its promise.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has launched AI Refinery™ for Industry with a collection of 12 industry agent solutions to help organizations rapidly build and deploy a network of AI agents that can enhance its workforce, address industry-specific challenges and drive business value faster. Today's announcement builds on Accenture’s investments and leadership in driving generative AI reinvention for clients, having supported more than 2,000 projects for organizations across industries.

KION GROUP AG, the Supply Chain Solutions Company, is working with Accenture (NYSEACN) to optimize supply chains using NVIDIA’s advanced AI and simulation technologies.

Accenture (NYSEACN) reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2025 ended November 30, 2024.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has agreed to acquire IQT Group, a provider of engineering managed services for large infrastructure projects, based in Rovigo, Italy. The acquisition will combine Accenture’s generative AI and digital capabilities with IQT Group’s infrastructure projects expertise to help clients plan, execute and manage net-zero infrastructure projects more efficiently.

Accenture (NYSEACN) is launching an on-demand learning program led by Accenture experts and powered by content from Stanford Online, designed to equip business and technology leaders with the knowledge and skills to harness the full potential of generative AI and drive greater business value for their organizations while balancing societal considerations.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has agreed to acquire AOX, a German company specializing in embedded software for carmakers and their suppliers. The acquisition will enhance Accenture's capabilities to help automotive clients solve challenges they are facing in their transition to software-defined vehicles.

Accenture (NYSEACN) will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, to discuss its first-quarter fiscal 2025 financial results. An earnings news release will be issued before the call.

Accenture (NYSEACN) announced that its Board of Directors has nominated Masahiko Uotani and Jennifer Nason for election to the Board following Accenture’s annual general meeting of shareholders on February 6, 2025. Uotani-san, 70, is the chairman and chief executive officer of Shiseido (OTCM: SSDOY). Ms. Nason, 64, is the Global Chair, Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan NYSE: JPMNYSEJPM)

Accenture (NYSEACN) has acquired Award Solutions, a provider of training and consulting services in advanced wireless and network technologies, including 5G, internet of things, and cloud-based solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has invested, through Accenture Ventures, in Cresta, a company that has developed an AI-powered platform designed for contact centers. As part of this investment, Accenture plans to integrate Cresta’s AI software capabilities into Accenture’s AI Refinery™️ a comprehensive platform that helps clients to build custom AI models that meet their unique business needs.

Accenture (NYSEACN) today announced new services and capabilities designed to reinvent business and cyber resilience through the power of gen AI, deepfake protection and quantum-safe data security solutions to help clients across industries become cyber-resilient organizations.

Accenture (NYSEACN) and ETS are collaborating to deliver a new end-to-end talent management solution designed to empower the future workforce while also enhancing the way organizations source, manage, upskill, and grow talent. To address the growing global skills gap, this new approach to skills training and assessing job readiness will be designed to help people advance their careers by expanding and enhancing their skill sets.

In a strategic move to address the unprecedented demand for AI transformation, Accenture (NYSEACN) and Avanade, their joint venture with Microsoft Corporation NASDAQ: MSFTNASDAQMSFT)

Accenture (NYSEACN) and Kyoto University today announced a comprehensive collaboration agreement to advance learning, research and innovation in human-centered AI. Accenture will leverage Kyoto University’s expertise in various fields, including behavioral economics, psychology and philosophy, to create breakthrough new research and insights on AI technology and how its applications to people, society and business can more closely align to human thought and behavior.

Accenture (NYSEACN) today announced the opening of the Accenture Center for Advanced AI Kyoto, a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to empowering clients with cutting-edge AI technologies, particularly generative AI, to drive the reinvention of their organizations. The center serves as a collaborative hub where clients can gain inspiration and forge new paths for their business transformations, which contribute to economic growth in Japan.

Only one in six (16%) of the world’s largest companies are currently on track to reach net zero emissions in their operations by 2050, while close to half (45%) continued to increase carbon emissions, according to new analysis from Accenture (NYSEACN). The analysis also showed a need to expand how AI is used to reduce emissions within and across companies, as only 14% of companies display evidence of using the fast-advancing technology for carbon emissions reduction today.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has acquired Allitix, a consulting and technology company specializing in Anaplan solutions with capabilities across financial planning and analysis, sales performance management and supply chain. The acquisition further strengthens Accenture’s connected planning capabilities using Anaplan, a platform that helps organizations see, plan and lead better business outcomes, and enhances its ability to help clients standardize planning practices across business functions for increased agility, productivity, and data-driven decision making.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Reality Defender, an RSA Innovation award-winning cybersecurity company specializing in deepfake detection. Together, Accenture and Reality Defender will equip clients in the financial services, media and high-tech industries with the ability to rapidly identify, detect, respond to and prevent deepfake fraud.

Over half of people are questioning the content they’re served online more than before, and 62% of people say that trust is an important factor to them when choosing to engage with a brand, according to Accenture’s (NYSEACN) 18th annual Life Trends report.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has acquired Joshua Tree Group (“JTG”), a supply chain consulting firm specializing in distribution center performance. The acquisition will help Accenture make distribution centers more productive and efficient for its clients in retail, consumer goods and other product-based industries. It also expands Accenture’s capabilities to design and build more autonomous supply chains, where AI-powered tools improve labor productivity, inventory management and customer fulfillment.

New research from Accenture (NYSEACN) found that three-in-four (74%) organizations have seen investments in generative AI and automation meet or exceed expectations, with 63% planning to increase their efforts and further strengthen these capabilities by 2026.

Accenture (NYSEACN) and NVIDIA today announced an expanded partnership, including Accenture’s formation of a new NVIDIA Business Group, to help the world’s enterprises rapidly scale their AI adoption.

Accenture (NYSEACN) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year ended August 31, 2024.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has invested, through Accenture Ventures, in Martian, a technology company that has built a patent-pending Large Language Model (LLM) router. For any prompt, Martian’s router will find and use the LLM that will give users the best result at the lowest cost. As part of this investment, Accenture plans to integrate Martian’s advanced model router offering into its proprietary “switchboard” services that can customize large-language models (LLMs) for specific data sources and use cases for greater impact of AI systems.

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH) Group, through its subsidiary Lintasarta, has partnered with Accenture (NYSEACN) in a strategic collaboration to accelerate its sovereign AI cloud platform, aimed at propelling AI-driven digital transformation in Indonesia. This initiative uses the Accenture AI Refinery™ platform to help Indonesian enterprises build cutting-edge AI solutions, tailored for various industry sectors, while ensuring sovereign data governance.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has launched a Personalized Experiences on Salesforce solution that leverages data and artificial intelligence (AI) to help organizations gain a 360-degree view of their customers and drive tailored experiences across channels—helping them to deliver what customers want, when they want it. The solution uses real-time data and AI-driven insights to help enterprises stay competitive, unlock incremental value and grow customer loyalty.

Accenture (NYSEACN) will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 to discuss its fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2024 financial results. An earnings news release will be issued before the call.

Accenture (NYSEACN) announced that it has invested in EMTECH, a global financial technology company that provides software-as-a-service platforms to help central banks streamline, connect and modernize their processes and operations. This investment, made through Accenture Ventures, will support EMTECH in its efforts to transform central banks’ financial and technology infrastructure and make it easier for central banks to regulate and supervise fintechs in an increasingly digital economy.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has expanded its strategic partnership with Unilever (LON: ULVR) to simplify its digital core and apply generative AI to drive efficiencies and improved business agility.

Accenture (NYSEACN) today announced that Arundhati Chakraborty has been appointed group chief executive of Accenture Operations, effective as of Sept. 1.

Accenture (NYSEACN) and Google Cloud today announced that their strategic alliance is advancing solutions for enterprise clients and seeing strong momentum across industries in two critical and related areas: generative AI and cybersecurity.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has agreed to acquire consus.health, a leading German healthcare management consultancy. consus.health offers services ranging from medical strategy and patient management to procurement and logistics, infrastructure management and construction planning services. By adding consus.health’s strategy and industry consulting skills to its capabilities in digital transformation and managed services, Accenture will enhance its ability to help healthcare providers and hospitals across Germany, Austria and Switzerland improve their quality of care.

Accenture (NYSEACN) today announced an expansion of its strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create Accenture Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform powered by AWS to help organizations adopt and scale AI rapidly with trust and confidence throughout their enterprise.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Earli Inc., a biotechnology company that developed a novel approach to early cancer detection with a synthetic targeting platform that selectively reprograms cancer cells to reveal and destroy themselves. This investment from Accenture Ventures will support expanding collaborations with global health and pharma companies that can use Earli’s technology to more rapidly and accurately detect and treat cancer.

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Accenture (NYSEACN) has acquired BOSLAN, a provider of management services for large infrastructure projects, headquartered in Bilbao, Spain. With BOSLAN, Accenture will reinvent how clients engineer and execute net-zero infrastructure projects. By applying artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies to asset lifecycle management, Accenture and the BOSLAN team will help clients optimize their project investments and become carbon-neutral faster.

Accenture (NYSEACN) and SandboxAQ are expanding their partnership to address the critical need for enterprise data encryption that can defend against current data breaches, as well as future AI and quantum threats. Together, Accenture and SandboxAQ are helping organizations secure sensitive data and strengthen encryption across their technology portfolios. The joint offering will also provide observability across environments to help increase enterprise resilience and lower impact from third party risks.

Accenture (NYSEACN) today announced the launch of the Accenture AI Refinery™ framework, built on NVIDIA AI Foundry, to enable clients to build custom LLM models with the Llama 3.1 collection of openly available models, also introduced today.

According to a new report from Accenture (NYSEACN), the vast majority of global organizations (96%) are planning to invest more than 5% of their total revenues in change initiatives over the next three years—up from 31% planning this level of investment just three years ago. At the same time, research indicates that a relatively small proportion of companies have actually mastered the ability to achieve significant value and impact from change initiatives. Amidst radical shifts in ways of working, changes in technology including generative AI, and the constant potential for unforeseeable disruption, the ability to effectively navigate and measure change has become a critical competency for C-suite leaders.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has agreed to acquire Camelot Management Consultants, an international SAP®-focused management and technology consulting firm from Germany, with specific strengths in supply chain, data and analytics. The acquisition will further enhance Accenture’s SAP and AI-driven supply chain capabilities, helping clients build the intelligent and resilient supply chains that today's business landscape demands.

New research from Accenture (NYSEACN) finds that organizations with an advanced digital core, investments in strategic innovation and a balanced approach to their technical debt achieved 60% higher revenue growth rate and 40% higher profits.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has entered into an agreement to acquire Logic, a retail technology services firm that works with retailers to drive customer loyalty, boost revenue and increase agility through the use of technology. With strong capabilities in merchandising, stores, digital, analytics and cloud, the acquisition of Logic will further enhance Accenture’s ability to drive technology transformations for retail clients globally.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has acquired Cientra, a silicon design and engineering services company, offering custom silicon solutions for global clients. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has acquired True North Solutions, a provider of industrial engineering solutions headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, to help clients produce and transport energy more safely and efficiently.

New research from Accenture (NYSEACN) finds that companies with the most mature supply chains are 23% more profitable than their peers. These leaders are six times as likely to use AI and generative AI widely across their supply chains, which allows them to generate additional business value.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has acquired Excelmax Technologies, a Bangalore, India-based semiconductor design services provider. The acquisition further enhances Accenture’s growing silicon design and engineering capabilities. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has completed the acquisition of OPENSTREAM HOLDINGS and its subsidiaries, Open Stream and Neutral, to help clients reinvent their businesses with advanced digital technologies and become truly data-driven. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Accenture (NYSEACN) reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2024 ended May 31, 2024.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has agreed to acquire Fibermind, an Italy-based network services company, specializing in fiber and mobile 5G networks deployment, as well as infrastructure engineering services. The acquisition will strengthen Accenture’s capabilities in the domain and extend network services to clients across multiple industries, including telecommunications, utilities, and transportation.

Accenture (NYSEACN) today announced the appointment of new leaders who have been helping advance its strategy to reinvent companies in the age of AI and drive long-term growth for Accenture. Drawing on a strong bench of internal leaders, Accenture is making the following key appointments:

Accenture (NYSEACN) has completed the acquisition of SOKO, an independent Brazilian creative agency that develops brand stories with deep impact in society by blending creativity, data and a comprehensive understanding of culture.

Bath & Body Works, Inc. (NYSEBBWI), a leading retailer of personal care and home fragrance products, is collaborating with Accenture NYSE: ACNNYSEACN)

Accenture (NYSEACN) has announced a three-year partnership with Major League Cricket Champions MI New York, where it will serve as its principal partner.

Accenture (NYSEACN) will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday, June 20, 2024 to discuss its third-quarter fiscal 2024 financial results. An earnings news release will be issued before the call.

Accenture (NYSEACN) and Kraken Technologies are helping EDF’s UK retail business accelerate the migration of customers to its new platform, enabling them to effectively manage their energy use and cost.

Accenture Song, the tech-powered creative group of Accenture (NYSEACN), has been appointed by Randstad NV, the world’s largest talent company, as its global creative and content agency of record.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has acquired Teamexpat, an embedded software specialist for complex high-tech products and systems, headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has agreed to acquire Partners in Performance, a global strategy consulting firm that works on business performance improvement in asset-intensive industries leveraging data and AI capabilities. Partners in Performance will strengthen Accenture’s offering to clients in industries such as metals and mining, oil and gas, utilities, and chemicals among others, by bolstering cost and productivity reinvention, delivery of capital projects, as well as accelerating energy transition and decarbonization efforts.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has agreed to acquire OPENSTREAM HOLDINGS and its subsidiaries, Open Stream and Neutral, to help clients reinvent their businesses with advanced digital technologies and become truly data-driven. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Turbine, a predictive simulation company that is building a platform for interpreting human biology. Accenture’s investment will help Turbine further extend its capabilities to global biopharma companies that can benefit from Turbine’s ability to uncover hidden biological insights, with the potential to guide and accelerate key drug development workstreams.

Accenture (NYSEACN) continues to expand its capability to assess, design, implement, scale and monitor AI systems in a responsible way to help its clients across industries drive value and growth.

Accenture (NYSEACN) and Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, are teaming up to collaboratively deliver cyber resilience services to help organizations more efficiently detect, investigate, respond to and recover from cyberattacks. As part of the partnership, Accenture will utilize Mandiant Threat Intelligence, a comprehensive and actionable platform, and Mandiant expertise in its Cyber Resilience services.

The National Football League and Accenture (NYSEACN) announced today a partnership naming Accenture the Official Business and Technology Consulting Partner of the NFL. Throughout the five-year partnership, the NFL will harness Accenture’s technology and data expertise to help shape the future of football.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has agreed to acquire SOKO, an independent Brazilian creative agency that—by blending creativity, data and a comprehensive understanding of culture—develops brand stories with deep impact in the industry and in society. SOKO will become part of the world-renowned creative agency Droga5, deepening the agency’s influence and relevance in Brazil while strengthening the market’s creative and brand capabilities within Accenture Song—the world’s largest tech-powered creative group.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has agreed to acquire Parsionate, a data consultancy specialized in data products and modern data foundation services, ranging from data strategy development to technology implementation.

Accenture (NYSEACN) today unveiled a new global creative campaign, “Reinvented with Accenture.” The campaign spotlights how the company is working with clients to drive some of their most significant business reinventions, including through the transformative power of technologies like generative AI.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has acquired Unlimited, the award-winning integrated customer engagement agency, which will become part of Accenture Song—the world’s largest tech-powered creative group. The acquisition will enhance Accenture Song’s ability to scale its offerings and unlock greater value from generative AI. With deep expertise in behavioral science, customer strategy and CRM activation, the acquisition of Unlimited further bolsters Accenture Song's capabilities to drive marketing transformation, relevance, and growth for its clients.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has acquired Axis Corporate, a Spanish management and technology business consulting firm specialized in financial services. Axis Corporate enhances Accenture’s strategy and technology offerings that enable companies in Spain to reinvent their business models, more effectively manage costs and develop new products faster.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has agreed to acquire CLIMB, a technology services provider specializing in system integration, IT infrastructure management and operations, primarily in the Gunma Prefecture. The acquisition of CLIMB brings more critical skills for global organizations in Japan to navigate technology change.

Accenture (NYSEACN) has appointed industry leader Karalee Close to lead Accenture’s Talent & Organization practice and join the company’s Global Management Committee, effective immediately.