Accenture (NYSE:ACN) traded higher on Tuesday, rising 1.6% after the company revealed an expanded collaboration with Anthropic aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence technologies.
As part of the enhanced alliance, the two firms are launching the Accenture Anthropic Business Group — an initiative that will train roughly 30,000 Accenture employees to use Anthropic’s Claude AI platform. Accenture will also become a premier partner for coding with Claude Code, rolling out the tool to tens of thousands of its developers globally.
Julie Sweet, Accenture’s Chair and CEO, emphasized the strategic importance of the expansion, saying,
“This exciting expansion of our partnership with Anthropic will help our clients accelerate the shift from experimenting with AI to using it as a catalyst for reinvention across the enterprise.”
The partnership features a joint offering tailored for CIOs, enabling organizations to measure value creation and scale AI-driven software development. The new solution integrates Claude Code with Accenture’s productivity and workflow frameworks, helping businesses redesign processes and manage organizational change.
Accenture and Anthropic also plan to co-create industry-specific AI solutions, particularly in heavily regulated fields such as finance, life sciences, healthcare, and the public sector. In financial services, the combination of Claude’s document-processing capabilities and Accenture’s compliance expertise aims to streamline and potentially automate regulatory workflows.
Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei highlighted the significance of the initiative, noting it represents the company’s “largest ever deployment” of Claude Code. The partnership centers on responsible AI principles, pairing Anthropic’s constitutional AI approach with Accenture’s governance frameworks.
Accenture will incorporate Claude into its global Innovation Hubs, establishing collaborative spaces where clients can design, prototype, and test AI tools before scaling them across their organizations.