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Clients across industries, including Albertsons, BASF, and Kyowa Kirin International, are working with Accenture and Databricks to build agent-enabled databases and AI applications on top of their corporate data.
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The new Accenture Databricks Business Group will be supported by more than 25,000 Databricks trained professionals, including the largest pool of certified talent in the ecosystem, to support joint customers in implementing and scaling Lakebase, Genie, Agent Bricks and Lakehouse.
NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and data and AI company Databricks are helping global organizations realize the full potential of their enterprise data and scale the adoption of AI applications and agents. As part of the strategic expansion of the partnership, the companies are launching the Accenture Databricks Business Group, focused on helping customers adopt Databricks as their core data and AI platform. Together, the companies will help customers take advantage of Databricks’ latest innovations, including Lakebase for serverless Postgres databases built for AI, Genie to let employees chat with their data, and Agent Bricks for high-quality agents built on enterprise data.
Organizations struggle to scale AI due to fragmented data and legacy infrastructure that silo information and stall innovation. To have real impact, companies need a unified data foundation and industry expertise to centralize governance, move AI from experiment to production, and make data and AI more accessible to teams across the business. Accenture and Databricks help bridge the gap between data potential and business performance by combining the Databricks platform and global industry expertise to enable enterprises to build and scale AI applications and agents.
Julie Sweet, Chairman and CEO of Accenture, said: “With Databricks, we help clients modernize their data foundations so they can confidently build, scale, and manage AI applications and agents.” “By combining Accenture’s reinvention expertise with the Databricks platform, we can accelerate the transition from experiment to production and securely scale AI to drive real business outcomes.”
Ali Ghodsi, CEO and co-founder of Databricks, said: “More companies are using Lakebase to create operational databases that scale with agents and Genies, making AI available to every employee. Together with Accenture, we can help more organizations deploy AI safely and responsibly to achieve the outcomes they care about most.”
Delivering value to clients across geographies
Accenture and Databricks are already helping clients like Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food and pharmaceutical retailers in the United States, deliver agent solutions to reimagine pricing intelligence. A “merchant twin” that combines historical analytics, forward-looking intelligence, and explainability gives merchants and category managers ultra-precise capabilities. This actionable information drives profit growth and revenue growth through carefully balanced strategic category planning and tactical promotional calendars.
“Albertsons Companies is committed to leading the future of retail intelligence through purposeful investments in technology and AI,” said Anuj Dhanda, Vice President and Chief Technology Transformation Officer, Albertsons Companies. “By partnering strategically with technology leaders like Accenture, Databricks and OpenAI, we are harnessing the power of data and applying AI-powered solutions to our operations, empowering our employees to make smarter, faster and more consistent decisions, and strengthening our customer value proposition to better serve our more than 36 million customers each week in stores and online.”
BASF is a German multinational and the world’s largest chemical company. BASF collaborated with Accenture and Databricks to build FOX, an in-house digital assistant for finance and administration departments. Built on the Databricks platform, FOX is designed to act as a digital colleague that brings structure, guidance, and clarity to your daily work, rather than adding another standalone tool.
“We worked with Accenture and Databricks to create a digital assistant that understands our processes and supports our colleagues,” said Arikan Porat, AI Lead, BASF. “Today, FOX will answer any questions you have. In the future, FOX will look at your data independently, detect patterns early, and prepare insights before anyone asks for them.”
Kyowa Kirin International (KKI), a global specialty pharmaceutical company, is committed to robust data management and governance to ensure ethical and compliant practices. Accenture and Avanade helped KKI modernize its data infrastructure using Databricks Lakehouse and Medallion Architecture to deliver accurate and timely data and insights to its employees.
“We wanted to be a data-driven organization, and we knew that the power of data starts with trust. Once you start believing in data, the sky is the limit,” said Sudeep Gupta, KKI Director of Data. “Now, Accenture can help us explore the art of the possible and how we can continue to innovate and improve patient outcomes using the Databricks platform.”
Introducing the Accenture Databricks Business Group
The Accenture Databricks Business Group is supported by more than 25,000 Databricks-trained professionals, including the largest pool of certified talent in the ecosystem. Through this new group, the companies will be able to help even more companies extend Lakebase, Genie, Agent Bricks, and Lakehouse within their technology environments to democratize data and AI. Together, the two companies are focused on delivering the following capabilities to customers around the world:
- Databases reimagined for the AI era: We’re helping more companies leverage Lakebase to develop open, scalable transactional databases designed for building AI apps and agents.
- Put data and AI in the hands of every team: Help data teams implement and scale Genie, Databricks’ conversational AI assistant, so any employee can ask questions in plain language, get accurate answers from managed data, and make decisions faster and with more confidence.
- Multi-agent system for enterprises: Support your organization with the development of production-ready AI agents that make inferences based on enterprise data. Businesses are moving from single chatbots to multi-agent systems, and these systems have reportedly grown by 327% in just four months.
- Industry-specific solutions: Align data and AI use cases across industries including financial services, retail, life sciences, telecommunications, and public sector to address sector-specific challenges and opportunities.
- Multicloud flexibility: Enables businesses to scale Databricks on their preferred cloud, optimizing cost, resiliency, and governance while accelerating time to value.
- Data migration and modernization: Helping companies migrate from legacy systems to Databricks for unified data management and governance.
Accenture and Databricks recently launched a university program across India to train final year students from top engineering institutions who join Accenture after graduation, enabling them to deliver customer value from day one. This initiative supports Databricks’ commitment to invest $250 million in India over the next three years.
Accenture has been named Databricks’ Global SI Partner of the Year for the seventh year in a row, reflecting the strength of our partnership in delivering industry-leading solutions, accelerating customer transformation, and driving customer success.
Learn more about the Accenture and Databricks partnership.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading companies reinvent themselves by building their digital core, unlocking the power of AI, and bringing together the talent of approximately 784,000 employees, unique assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships to rapidly create value across the enterprise. Our strategy is to be our clients’ preferred reinvention partner and the most client-centric, AI-enabled workplace in the world. Through our Reinvention Services, we bring together our capabilities and deep industry expertise across Strategy, Consulting, Technology, Operations, Song, and Industry X to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and our success is measured by the 360-degree value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit Accenture.com.
About data bricks
Databricks is a data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations around the world, including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500, rely on Databricks to build and scale their data and AI apps, analytics, and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with more than 30 offices worldwide, Databricks provides an integrated data intelligence platform that includes Agent Bricks, Genie, Lakebase, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. For more information, follow Databricks on LinkedIn. ×YouTube, Instagram.
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