Accenture and Google Cloud Advance Solutions for Enterprise Clients

Achieving Strong Momentum across Industries in Generative AI and Cybersecurity

Companies helping clients across industries safely scale AI projects and reinvent business operations

45% of joint client projects have moved from gen AI proof-of-concepts to production

Accenture and Google Cloud today announced that their strategic alliance is advancing solutions for enterprise clients and seeing strong momentum across industries in two critical and related areas: generative AI and cybersecurity.

As part of the announcement today, the two companies are increasing their investments in services that support businesses through every stage of their gen AI projects, including providing the expertise to determine optimal use cases, piloting projects for strategic innovation and deploying the engineering prowess needed to scale the technology and secure the enterprise.

With cybersecurity as a core pillar of the partnership, Accenture and Google Cloud are also deepening their security work as clients adapt to new risks unique to gen AI, including securing model data, managing cyberattacks, and delivering remediation services that minimize breach impact and enable faster recovery.

Strategic Alliance Advancing Gen AI and Cybersecurity Solutions

As a result of the Accenture and Google Cloud generative AI Center of Excellence (CoE), which launched in December 2023, 45% of joint client projects have moved from gen AI proof-of-concepts to production. With today’s announcement, the companies will further increase support for clients as they use AI to optimize critical business functions, address complex industry needs, and protect against sophisticated cybersecurity threats.

“Accenture’s decade-long partnership with Google Cloud is helping our clients across industries accelerate and scale their use of generative AI as a catalyst for reinvention, to strengthen cybersecurity, and create long-term value faster”

Accelerating Enterprise Adoption of Gen AI

Through the joint gen AI CoE, Accenture and Google Cloud have quickly delivered new gen AI solutions, managed services, and more than 60 joint industry accelerators. These accelerators are based on Accenture’s hundreds of gen AI use cases and help clients solve complex challenges across industries, such as optimizing supply chains to improve product distribution, enhancing retail experiences to increase purchase conversion rates, and automating document processing to increase efficiency.

As one of the largest financial institutions in Brazil, Banco BV called on Accenture and Google Cloud to reinvent their customer experience with gen AI.

“The GenCore project, developed by Banco BV, Accenture, and Google Cloud, uses AI to create hyper-personalized interactions with customers, making communication 80% faster and 100 times more personalized. Fully anchored in AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, this advancement reflects our commitment to innovation and excellence in customer service.”

Powering Security with Gen AI and Threat Intelligence

Accenture and Google Cloud have also deepened their work to help clients transform security operations, delivering solutions to hundreds of enterprise clients over the past year to strengthen their security posture and reduce costs.

Accenture’s managed extended detection and response (MxDR) offering is integrated with Google Security Operations, which features security-specific gen AI platform capabilities from Google Cloud and gen AI operational capabilities from Accenture.

Accenture’s Investments to Deliver Google Cloud AI

Accenture and Google Cloud are also investing in client services to support every stage of a gen AI project, including capabilities to rapidly prototype, assess AI readiness, and build the correct foundation for modernizing business applications and customer experiences with gen AI.

In the past 12 months, Accenture has doubled its Google Cloud certifications to address the rising demand for Google Cloud technology, and its experts have been accredited with Google Cloud’s new Gen AI Skills badge.

Conclusion

The strategic alliance between Accenture and Google Cloud is accelerating the adoption of gen AI and cybersecurity solutions across industries. With a decade-long partnership and shared expertise, the companies are enabling clients to safely scale AI projects and reinvent business operations.

FAQs

Q: What is the strategic alliance between Accenture and Google Cloud?

The strategic alliance aims to advance solutions for enterprise clients and is seeing strong momentum across industries in generative AI and cybersecurity.

Q: What are the key benefits of the partnership?

The partnership enables clients to accelerate and scale their use of generative AI as a catalyst for reinvention, strengthen their cybersecurity, and create long-term value faster.

Q: How is Accenture and Google Cloud accelerating enterprise adoption of gen AI?

Through the joint gen AI CoE, Accenture and Google Cloud have quickly delivered new gen AI solutions, managed services, and over 60 joint industry accelerators.

Q: What is the success rate of joint client projects moving from gen AI proof-of-concepts to production?

According to Accenture and Google Cloud, 45% of joint client projects have moved from gen AI proof-of-concepts to production.

Q: What are the key areas of focus for Accenture and Google Cloud in gen AI and cybersecurity?

The companies are focusing on securing model data, managing cyberattacks, and delivering remediation services that minimize breach impact and enable faster recovery.