Accenture Acquires Nextira to Expand Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Engineering Capabilities
Nextira joins Accenture AWS Business Group focused on media and entertainment customers
New York and Austin. June 1, 2023 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Nextira, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Partner that uses AWS to deliver cloud-native innovation, predictive analytics, and immersive experiences to customers. bottom. These services and solutions enhance Accenture Cloud First’s robust engineering capabilities, helping clients to fully leverage our suite of cloud capabilities and tools. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Nextira’s nearly 70 employees are over 20,000 dedicated to accelerating the value of AWS to maximize enterprise-wide transformation at speed and scale You will join the Accenture AWS Business Group, a team of certified professionals.
Nextira builds cloud-based solutions and services with cutting-edge engineering skills, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and data analytics to enable clients to design, build, launch, and optimize high-performance computing environments. will do so. Additionally, his Nextira proprietary Studio in the Cloud solution on AWS provides clients with a virtual environment to easily develop and render 3D objects using modern rendering platforms.
For many organizations, the cloud has become the new operating system, supporting all the capabilities they need to operate, innovate and thrive. Nextira’s platform engineering expertise and AI and machine learning services enable him to embed his AI capabilities directly into the rapidly growing number of applications and services built on AWS.
“Nextira brings proven expertise in engineering and designing cloud solutions that form the digital core for continuous innovation,” said Kartik Narain, Global Lead, Accenture Cloud First. “We combine Nextira’s AI, machine learning, data and analytics capabilities with Accenture’s approach of using a modern data platform on the cloud. It provides the actionable insights and predictive results you need to deliver transformative customer and employee experiences and drive the next wave of product and market growth.”
Nextira Founder and CEO Jason Cutler said: “Joining Accenture combines our deep experience in platform and software engineering with Accenture’s extensive knowledge across cloud technologies, creating new opportunities for organizations to unlock the potential of emerging technologies to drive business value.”
Accenture AWS Business Group is part of Accenture Cloud First. Accenture Cloud First is an industry leader focused on redefining how organizations operate and create value using cloud, data and artificial intelligence to reinvent the entire enterprise business group. Accenture Cloud First includes over 130,000 cloud professionals across Accenture with over 124,000 cloud certifications.
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