Accenture and Anthropic are forming a new Accenture Anthropic Business Group that will train about 30,000 Accenture professionals on Claude, the companies have said in a joint announcement. The multi-year partnership is designed to move enterprises “from AI pilots to full-scale deployment” and makes Anthropic one of Accenture’s “select strategic partners.”
The business group will create one of the largest ecosystems of Claude practitioners, including engineers who embed Claude directly into client environments.
Accenture will also become a premier AI partner for coding with Claude Code and will make the tool available to tens of thousands of its developers.
“Our new partnership means that tens of thousands of Accenture developers will be using Claude Code, making this our largest ever deployment,” said Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei.
Alongside workforce training, the companies will launch a joint offering for CIOs to measure value and scale AI-powered software development, putting Claude Code at the center of the software lifecycle.
They are also co-developing solutions for regulated sectors such as financial services, life sciences, healthcare and the public sector, where security and governance requirements have slowed AI adoption.
The Anthropic deal lands eight days after Accenture and OpenAI announced a separate collaboration to equip tens of thousands of Accenture professionals with ChatGPT Enterprise and name OpenAI as one of its primary AI partners, as the firm restructures around digital and AI-led services.
The two partnerships position Accenture as a major channel for deploying both Claude and ChatGPT into enterprise workflows while upskilling large internal teams on competing frontier models.