Accenture and Anthropic have extended their partnership with the goal of advancing AI deployment for enterprises.

Under this arrangement, the companies will establish the Accenture Anthropic Business Group, which will involve training approximately 30,000 Accenture professionals on Anthropic’s Claude AI model.

These trained professionals are expected to help clients move from initial AI pilot projects to broader enterprise-scale implementations.

As part of the partnership, Accenture and Anthropic are introducing a joint product for chief information officers (CIOs).

This offering is designed to help measure value and facilitate widespread adoption of AI-powered software development within their engineering organisations.

Claude Code will be central to this solution, working alongside Accenture’s frameworks for productivity measurement, workflow redesign, and ongoing change management and training.

The aim is to allow companies to bring new products to market more quickly and improve development timelines.

Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei said: “AI is changing how almost everyone works, and enterprises need both cutting-edge AI and trusted expertise to deploy it at scale. Accenture brings deep enterprise transformation experience, and Anthropic brings the most capable models.

“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.”

The companies are also collaborating on sector-specific solutions for highly regulated industries such as financial services, life sciences, healthcare, and the public sector.

In financial services, Claude AI can be used to automate compliance processes using document analysis combined with Accenture’s regulatory knowledge.

In healthcare and life sciences, the technology will help researchers analyse data and manage clinical trials.

In the public sector, AI agents could assist citizens in navigating government services while maintaining privacy and compliance standards.

To support client engagement, Accenture plans to incorporate Claude into its network of Innovation Hubs.

These centres will allow clients to prototype and test AI solutions before deploying them more widely.

Both companies will also invest in the creation of a Claude Center of Excellence within Accenture for the joint development of new AI offerings tailored to industry requirements and regulatory standards.

Accenture chair and CEO Julie Sweet said: “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.

“With the powerful combination of Anthropic’s Claude capabilities and Accenture’s AI expertise and industry and function domain knowledge, organisations 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.”