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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Accenture unveils on-premise AI for enterprise adoption
Accenture has collaborated with Dell Technologies and Nvidia to accelerate enterprise adoption of AI. The partnership introduces a new AI solution built on Dell Technologies' infrastructure and powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. It is tailored to support organisations operating in regulated industries or those heavily invested in on-premises infrastructure, Accenture said. The collaboration enhances the capabilities of Accenture's AI Refinery platform by integrating it with Dell's high-performance and Nvidia-accelerated infrastructure. This enables one-click deployment of agentic AI capabilities, allowing companies to realise value and reduce total cost of ownership. Accenture said it will also support AI deployment with the Nvidia Enterprise AI Factory validated design, which serves as a blueprint for organisations to establish on-premise AI factories using NVIDIA Blackwell and a comprehensive ecosystem of AI partners. The solution is designed to help organisations rapidly scale AI in private, on-prem environments while supporting key requirements such as data sovereignty, compliance, resiliency, and high availability. It also addresses the need for security and privacy controls in air-gapped environments or restricted network zones, ultra-low latency for real-time applications, and edge or offline use cases where reliable internet access is scarce. Accenture chief AI officer Lan Guan said: 'Through this collaboration with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, Accenture is bringing the power of AI Refinery to on-premises infrastructure, providing an open, interoperable, scalable and secure solution that paves the way for widespread AI adoption. 'Together, we're empowering organisations to accelerate reinvention and unlock new value from data while future-proofing their investments.' Dell Technologies chief technical officer and senior vice-president Ihab Tarazi said: 'Our collaboration with Accenture and NVIDIA will provide customers with scalable end-to-end agentic AI capabilities to bring AI to their data on-premises.' Accenture said that preconfigured packages combine AI Refinery with the Dell AI Factory and Nvidia, including Nvidia Enterprise AI software. This streamlines data transfer and indexing, fostering data-driven agentic insights. This full-stack solution facilitates enterprise AI transformation by allowing rapid service prototyping with modular frameworks, dynamic cloud-to-edge orchestration, and automated workflows. Nvidia enterprise AI products vice-president Justin Boitano said: 'Together, Nvidia, Accenture and Dell deliver a turnkey AI platform for enterprises to accelerate transformation, unlock new value from data and confidently scale AI in alignment with operational requirements.' In April 2025, Accenture expanded its alliance with Google Cloud, unveiling a suite of new capabilities to assist organisations in scaling advanced cloud and AI technologies. "Accenture unveils on-premise AI for enterprise adoption" was originally created and published by Verdict, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
20-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Accenture Collaborates with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA to Accelerate Enterprise AI Transformation with AI Refinery
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DELL TECHNOLOGIES WORLD-- Accenture (NYSE: ACN), in collaboration with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, is providing an AI solution built on Dell Technologies infrastructure with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. This helps organizations – particularly those within regulated industries or those with substantial investments in on-premises infrastructure – capitalize on the burgeoning opportunities of agentic AI. This collaboration extends the reach of the Accenture AI Refinery ™ platform, bringing agentic AI capabilities with a one-click deployment to Dell's high-performance, NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure, helping companies realize value more quickly and reduce total cost of ownership. Accenture will further facilitate AI deployment with NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, a guide for organizations to build on-premise AI factories leveraging NVIDIA Blackwell and a broad ecosystem of AI partners. The solution helps organizations rapidly scale AI in private, on-prem environments. It provides support for key requirements, including data sovereignty and compliance to help meet regulatory and data residency mandates; resiliency and high availability to meet business continuity requirements, security and privacy controls needed for air-gapped environments or restricted network zones; ultra-low latency for real-time uses cases like manufacturing or healthcare imagining; and edge or offline use cases critical for remote, disconnected environments where reliable internet access is limited or unavailable. 'Through this collaboration with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, Accenture is bringing the power of AI Refinery to on-premises infrastructure, providing an open, interoperable, scalable and secure solution that paves the way for widespread AI adoption,' said Lan Guan, chief AI officer, Accenture. 'Together, we're empowering organizations to accelerate reinvention and unlock new value from data while future-proofing their investments.' 'Our collaboration with Accenture and NVIDIA will provide customers with scalable end-to-end agentic AI capabilities to bring AI to their data on-premises,' said Ihab Tarazi, Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice President, Dell Technologies. 'This solution allows customers to tailor their strategies and engineered architectures to meet diverse needs, ensuring data integrity and protection to accelerate digital transformation.' Preconfigured packages integrate Accenture's AI Refinery and the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, which includes NVIDIA Enterprise AI software, streamlining data transfer and indexing to empower data-driven agentic insights. This unified, full-stack solution helps to accelerate enterprise AI transformation by enabling rapid service prototyping with modular, reusable frameworks, automated workflows, and dynamic cloud-to-edge orchestration. 'Regulated industries face the unique challenge of harnessing AI to drive innovation and efficiency while rigorously adhering to complex compliance, data privacy and governance standards,' said Justin Boitano, vice president, Enterprise AI Products, NVIDIA. 'Together, NVIDIA, Accenture and Dell deliver a turnkey AI platform for enterprises to accelerate transformation, unlock new value from data and confidently scale AI in alignment with operational requirements.' About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 801,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at Forward-Looking Statements Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as 'may,' 'will,' 'should,' 'likely,' 'anticipates,' 'aspires,' 'expects,' 'intends,' 'plans,' 'projects,' 'believes,' 'estimates,' 'positioned,' 'outlook,' 'goal,' 'target' and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance nor promises that goals or targets will be met, and involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that are difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. These risks include, without limitation, that the use of AI could harm our business, damage our reputation or give rise to legal or regulatory action, as well as the risks, uncertainties and other factors discussed under the 'Risk Factors' heading in Accenture plc's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this news release speak only as of the date they were made, and Accenture undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements made in this news release or to conform such statements to actual results or changes in Accenture's expectations.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Accenture Collaborates with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA to Accelerate Enterprise AI Transformation with AI Refinery
New AI solution helps organizations scale AI in private, on-prem environments to unlock new value from data LAS VEGAS, May 20, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DELL TECHNOLOGIES WORLD-- Accenture (NYSE: ACN), in collaboration with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, is providing an AI solution built on Dell Technologies infrastructure with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. This helps organizations – particularly those within regulated industries or those with substantial investments in on-premises infrastructure – capitalize on the burgeoning opportunities of agentic AI. This collaboration extends the reach of the Accenture AI Refinery™ platform, bringing agentic AI capabilities with a one-click deployment to Dell's high-performance, NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure, helping companies realize value more quickly and reduce total cost of ownership. Accenture will further facilitate AI deployment with NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, a guide for organizations to build on-premise AI factories leveraging NVIDIA Blackwell and a broad ecosystem of AI partners. The solution helps organizations rapidly scale AI in private, on-prem environments. It provides support for key requirements, including data sovereignty and compliance to help meet regulatory and data residency mandates; resiliency and high availability to meet business continuity requirements, security and privacy controls needed for air-gapped environments or restricted network zones; ultra-low latency for real-time uses cases like manufacturing or healthcare imagining; and edge or offline use cases critical for remote, disconnected environments where reliable internet access is limited or unavailable. "Through this collaboration with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, Accenture is bringing the power of AI Refinery to on-premises infrastructure, providing an open, interoperable, scalable and secure solution that paves the way for widespread AI adoption," said Lan Guan, chief AI officer, Accenture. "Together, we're empowering organizations to accelerate reinvention and unlock new value from data while future-proofing their investments." "Our collaboration with Accenture and NVIDIA will provide customers with scalable end-to-end agentic AI capabilities to bring AI to their data on-premises," said Ihab Tarazi, Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice President, Dell Technologies. "This solution allows customers to tailor their strategies and engineered architectures to meet diverse needs, ensuring data integrity and protection to accelerate digital transformation." Preconfigured packages integrate Accenture's AI Refinery and the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, which includes NVIDIA Enterprise AI software, streamlining data transfer and indexing to empower data-driven agentic insights. This unified, full-stack solution helps to accelerate enterprise AI transformation by enabling rapid service prototyping with modular, reusable frameworks, automated workflows, and dynamic cloud-to-edge orchestration. "Regulated industries face the unique challenge of harnessing AI to drive innovation and efficiency while rigorously adhering to complex compliance, data privacy and governance standards," said Justin Boitano, vice president, Enterprise AI Products, NVIDIA. "Together, NVIDIA, Accenture and Dell deliver a turnkey AI platform for enterprises to accelerate transformation, unlock new value from data and confidently scale AI in alignment with operational requirements." About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 801,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at Forward-Looking Statements Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "may," "will," "should," "likely," "anticipates," "aspires," "expects," "intends," "plans," "projects," "believes," "estimates," "positioned," "outlook," "goal," "target" and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance nor promises that goals or targets will be met, and involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that are difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. These risks include, without limitation, that the use of AI could harm our business, damage our reputation or give rise to legal or regulatory action, as well as the risks, uncertainties and other factors discussed under the "Risk Factors" heading in Accenture plc's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this news release speak only as of the date they were made, and Accenture undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements made in this news release or to conform such statements to actual results or changes in Accenture's expectations. 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Mint
03-05-2025
- Business
- Mint
AI agents are learning how to collaborate. Companies need to work with them
Developers are creating protocols to harness AI-powered agents into teams that handle everything from customer service and coding to supply chain, logistics, finance, marketing and business strategy. Companies should start planning for the next stage of artificial intelligence: the orchestration of multiple agents across their businesses. Most companies are still figuring out how to deploy even one AI-powered agent that can perform a task autonomously or in coordination with humans. But developers are creating protocols to harness these agents into teams that handle everything from customer service and coding to supply chain, logistics, finance, marketing and business strategy. Given the pace of innovation and the time it takes for organizations to adapt, companies will do themselves a favor by getting ready now for multiagent systems increasingly available later this year. Accenture's chief AI officer, Lan Guan, says only 10% to 15% of her clients currently use multiagent systems, but she expects that percentage to exceed 30% within 18 to 24 months. The professional services company has created a 15-agent system used for marketing, for example, comprising three 'super agents" that are responsible for coordinating 12 agents trained for specific tasks. It can plan a marketing campaign around a topic such as '2025 trends," conducting research, identifying similar past campaigns and addressing questions like a human would, according to Guan. All told, Accenture has more than 50 multiagent systems today for a range of industries and markets, and expects that number to hit more than 100 by the end of the year. The firm said customers such as carmaker BMW, consumer-brands company Unilever and sports giant ESPN are currently adopting these systems. Accenture last month introduced Trusted Agent Huddle, which it said allows agent-to-agent interoperability with partners such as technology companies Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow. Multiagent capabilities are about to become more widely available. Salesforce and Google announced at the Google Next conference in April that they were working on a protocol called A2A, or Agent-to-Agent. The protocol, which allows agents within Salesforce's Agentforce ecosystem to interact with each other as well as external agents, focuses on areas such as authentication, identification and message passing, according to Gary Lerhaupt, vice president of product architecture for Agentforce. Work is under way with partners to develop prototype multiagents using A2A, he said. Keyway, a commercial real-estate tech startup based in New York, provides a glimpse into how the concept works in practice, according to co-founder and Chief Executive Matias Recchia. It offers asset managers and property managers a multiagent platform that uses coordinated interactions to address questions such as how to price a rental property or target amenities and incentives. The company has raised $45 million from investors including Canvas Ventures, Camber Creek and Thomvest. While Keyway's agents are specialized and can trigger each other through structured workflows, the company said, they still operate in a controlled, predefined sequence that requires human oversight such as setting prompts, reviewing outputs and supervising decisions. A true multiagent system, Recchia said, involves agents that dynamically reason, negotiate or collaborate in real time without requiring human-defined workflows, explicit prompts or manual coordination. In other words, the agents take initiative, adapt to new information and interact fluidly with other agents without waiting for human instruction. Companies can start to prepare for multiagents systems simply by creating standard, stand-alone agents. Once the proper protocols are ready, companies can orchestrate these agents into tackling complex, collaborative systems. Principle Financial Group has embedded individual AI agents across domains including software engineering co-pilots , claims summarization and post-call analytics, according to Chief Information Officer Kathy Kay. They largely operate within defined scopes, but the investment management and insurance company is actively building the technical foundation to support agent-to-agent collaboration, Kay said. That means developing data pipelines and governance models . Workflows will also have to evolve to accommodate real-time collaboration between humans and intelligent, adaptive AI systems, she said. Kay foresees strong potential for the use of multiagent systems in retirement services such as rollover optimization. In asset management, she expects multiagents to analyze unstructured market data, generate investment narratives and align findings across portfolios. Other uses include earnings call preparation, contact center intelligence and claims adjudication. 'These are not isolated functions," Kay said. 'They are systems of tasks that, when connected through intelligent agents, can drive faster insights and better outcomes across the enterprise." Write to Steven Rosenbush at
Business Wire
28-04-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Accenture Introduces Trusted Agent Huddle to Allow Seamless, First-of-its-Kind Multi-System AI Agent Collaboration Across the Enterprise
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has introduced Trusted Agent Huddle™ to allow first-of-its-kind multi-system agent collaboration across the enterprise. Part of AI Refinery, ™ the Trusted Agent Huddle will allow secure and seamless agent-to-agent interoperability across partners including Adobe, AWS, Databricks, Google Cloud, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake and Workday. Agents developed by enterprise users will be able to seamlessly work together in a single platform, allowing organizations to select and manage the right agents for specific tasks and business objectives. Lan Guan, chief AI officer of Accenture, said, 'With the proliferation of AI agents across the enterprise, trust is the only limit to AI reaching its full potential, and seamless and secure multi-system collaboration between agents will further the impact and promise of what agentic AI can achieve. With the launch of Trusted Agent Huddle, for the first time, companies will be able to connect and orchestrate agents from different enterprise platforms within AI Refinery, enabling boundaryless capability and unprecedented levels of innovation.' With the use of Trusted Agent Huddle to publish and onboard agents into AI Refinery through open standardization protocols, such as Agent2Agent and Model Context Protocol, organizations can transform entire workflows, rather than isolated processes within single domains or systems. Additionally, the Trusted Agent Huddle will leverage a proprietary algorithm to evaluate and align agent performance. This certification process lays the foundation for future development of an agent trust score. Organizations with pre-existing agents based on cloud-hosted models would seamlessly integrate those agents into AI Refinery without impacting functionality, enabling future agents to be built on the platform. Accenture's agent builder can be used to adapt agents as business requirements change. FedEx is working with Accenture and NVIDIA to explore uses of Trusted Agent Huddle to drive greater resilience. 'FedEx is a trusted player at the center of the supply chain ecosystem. We work to make supply chains smarter for everyone, bringing people and businesses together to drive new efficiencies and growth," said Sriram Krishnasamy, chief transformation officer and chief digital & information officer, FedEx Corporation. "The Trusted Agent Huddle enables agents from different platforms to collaborate as one team and will help FedEx seamlessly engage and orchestrate information across the supply chain to accelerate innovation.' 'With the launch of Trusted Agent Huddle, we're helping enterprises like FedEx future proof their innovation and AI investments,' said Karthik Narain, group chief executive—Technology and chief technology officer, Accenture. 'Collaboration is the competitive differentiation of the future. Companies can best address today's volatility, while positioning themselves for future innovation and resilience, if they are able to harness AI innovation from across the ecosystem and not be limited to a single agent ecosystem.' Accenture AI Refinery—which is built on NVIDIA AI Enterprise —helps accelerate AI across the SaaS and cloud AI ecosystem. The new Trusted Agent Huddle can be used with the NVIDIA Agent Intelligence toolkit which provides seamless, heterogeneous connectivity between agents, tools and data. 'Collaboration and integration across platforms and systems is key to running AI agents that can reason and complete complex tasks,' said Justin Boitano, vice president of Enterprise AI Software Products at NVIDIA. 'Accenture AI Refinery, built with NVIDIA, offers a Trusted Agent Huddle to let enterprises orchestrate interoperable agent teams to drive efficiency and innovation across virtually every business function.' About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 801,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at Forward-Looking Statements Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as 'may,' 'will,' 'should,' 'likely,' 'anticipates,' 'aspires,' 'expects,' 'intends,' 'plans,' 'projects,' 'believes,' 'estimates,' 'positioned,' 'outlook,' 'goal,' 'target' and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance nor promises that goals or targets will be met, and involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that are difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. These risks include, without limitation, that the use of AI could harm our business, damage our reputation or give rise to legal or regulatory action, as well as the risks, uncertainties and other factors discussed under the 'Risk Factors' heading in Accenture plc's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this news release speak only as of the date they were made, and Accenture undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements made in this news release or to conform such statements to actual results or changes in Accenture's expectations.
