Accenture and NVIDIA announce an expanded partnership, including the formation by Accenture of a new NVIDIA Business Group, to help companies around the world rapidly scale their AI adoption.
With the demand for generative AI driving US$ 3 billion in Accenture reserves in its recent fiscal year ended, the new group will help customers lay the groundwork for autonomous AI functionalities using the Accenture AI Refinery️ that utilizes the entire NVIDIA AI stack including NVIDIA AI Foundry, NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse ^^To advance in areas such as process reinvention, AI-driven simulation and sovereign AI.
Accenture AI Refinery will be available across all public and private cloud platforms and will seamlessly integrate with other Accenture business groups to accelerate AI across the SaaS and cloud AI ecosystem.
“We are breaking down significant new barriers with our partnership with NVIDIA and enabling our customers to be at the forefront of using generative AI as a catalyst for” reinvention, he says Julie Sweet's“, President and CEO, Accenture AI Refinery will create opportunities for companies to reimagine their processes and operations, discover new ways of working, and scale AI solutions across the enterprise to help drive continuous change and create value
“A AI will drive companies to scale innovation faster”, says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.“A NVIDIA platform, Accenture AI Refinery and our combined expertise will help companies and nations accelerate this transformation to drive unprecedented productivity and growth.”
“We are excited about this partnership between Accenture and NVIDIA, which not only drives innovation in generative AI, but also sets a new standard for the adoption of autonomous AI systems. This collaboration will enable companies in Latin America to reimagine their operational processes and achieve sustainable growth in an increasingly competitive market”, said Marcio Aguiar, director of NVIDIA's Enterprise division for Latin America.
Accenture and NVIDIA business group extends autonomous AI to enterprises
The new Accenture and NVIDIA business group will accelerate momentum with generative AI and help customers scale autonomous AI systems that represent the next frontier of generative AI & AI to foster new levels of productivity and growth.This significant investment will be supported by more than 30,000 professionals who will receive training globally to help customers reinvent processes and scale AI adoption in enterprises.
Autonomous AI systems represent a significant advance for generative AI. Instead of a human typing a prompt or automating pre-existing business steps, autonomous AI systems can act on user intent, create workflows, and take appropriate actions based on their environment, reinventing entire processes or functions.
Accenture and NVIDIA are already helping customers adopt and scale autonomous AI systems. For example, Indosat Group announced the first sovereign AI in Indonesia, which enables companies to deploy AI securely, ensuring data governance and adhering to regulations.It is collaborating with Accenture to build industry specific solutions on top of Indosat's data center, which includes NVIDIA AI software and accelerated computing, to support local businesses.With an initial focus on the financial services industry, the new solutions, powered by the AI Refinery platform, will help Indonesian banks leverage AI to increase profitability, operational efficiency and sustainable growth in a highly competitive market.
Accenture will also launch a new NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprint for virtual facility robot fleet simulation, which integrates NVIDIA Omniverse, the company said Isaac and software Metropolisenabling industrial companies to build software-defined factories and facilities operated by autonomous robots.
Accenture will leverage these new capabilities at Eclipse Automation, a manufacturing automation company owned by Accenture, to deliver projects up to 50% faster and reduce cycle time on behalf of its customers by 30%.
Network of AI engineering hubs
As part of its Advanced AI Center, Accenture is introducing a network of hubs with deep engineering skills and the technical ability to use autonomous AI systems to transform large-scale operations.These hubs will focus on large-scale selection, fine-tuning and inference of fundamental models, all of which present significant challenges of accuracy, cost, latency and compliance when development is scaled.Based on existing hubs in Mountain View, California, and Bangalore, Accenture is adding AI Refinery engineering hubs in Singapore, Tokyo, Malaga and London.
Accenture adopts the AI autonomous
In addition to using autonomous AI in Eclipse Automation, Accenture's marketing function is integrating the AI Refinery platform with standalone agents to help create and run campaigns smarter and faster. This will result in a reduction of 25 to 35% in manual steps, cost savings of 6% and is expected to achieve a 25 to 55% increase in speed to market.
