Accenture plc reports developments tied to its global professional services business, including consulting, technology, operations and business process services for enterprise and public-sector clients. Recurring news themes include AI-enabled business reinvention, cloud and data partnerships, cybersecurity capabilities, digital platform modernization and customer experience transformation.
Company updates also cover strategic investments made through Accenture Ventures, collaborations with technology platforms and industry partners, and applied innovation in areas such as agentic AI, compliance-focused enterprise AI, warehouse robotics and sector-specific digital ecosystems. These announcements reflect Accenture’s role in designing, implementing and operating technology-led change programs across industries.
Accenture (ACN), through Accenture Edge, helped Combe complete a global finance and supply chain transformation on Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. The multi-year program consolidated Combe's separate, country-specific enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems onto one Oracle platform. Combe implemented the applications across finance, procurement, manufacturing, order management and supply chain.
The finance system supports more standardized accounting and less manual work. The supply chain system helps Combe plan and monitor demand and supply. Combe says the combined platform gives it greater operational visibility and a unified data foundation for future AI use. Oracle says Combe can use embedded AI and Fusion Agentic Applications to automate more work.
Accenture (ACN) and osapiens implemented a supply-chain traceability system for DS Smith spanning more than 250 plants and facilities.
The companies reviewed operations in more than 30 countries and brought supplier data and reporting onto the osapiens HUB. DS Smith can now trace EUDR-relevant materials across its EMEA supply chain from origin through distribution. More than 25,000 workflows have been executed, nearly 25,000 land plots monitored automatically and almost 10,000 compliance-related cases managed through automated processes. The companies say the program prepares DS Smith for EUDR requirements taking effect at the end of 2026. Accenture and osapiens also expanded their partnership to offer supply-chain tools globally.
Accenture (ACN) has invested, via Accenture Ventures, in AI platform company Within and formed a new partnership to help clients accelerate enterprise-wide AI adoption and automation.
Within’s platform observes how employees actually work across applications and undocumented offline interactions, building a continuously updated “Work Brain” context layer that AI agents can use to map processes, identify automation opportunities and improve workflows. Accenture’s latest Pulse of Change survey of more than 3,000 C‑suite leaders found that 82% are increasing AI investment, but only 23% report widespread, sustained business value, which the companies link to poor visibility into real-world processes. The partnership combines Accenture’s AI delivery scale and industry expertise with Within’s work‑to‑agent platform to support AI, ERP and operating model transformation, with terms of the investment undisclosed.
Accenture (ACN) launched Accenture Construct, a new global business focused on helping project owners plan, deliver and optimize large infrastructure and capital projects using AI and data.
The business consolidates Accenture’s capital projects services, which have grown fourfold in three years, into one owner-centric partner spanning strategic advisory, engineering, project delivery and technology. It targets an integrated owner-side capital project services market valued at $260 billion, projected to reach $348 billion by 2030, and is backed by $2.5 billion in cumulative investments and more than 5,000 practitioners across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. Accenture Construct is organized around five global lines of business covering data centers, utilities and telecommunications, transportation and civic infrastructure, advanced manufacturing and process industries.
Accenture (ACN), through its new Accenture Edge business, announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help mid-market companies adopt AI and modernize technology on AWS cloud infrastructure and security services.
Accenture Edge targets organizations with $300 million to $3 billion in annual revenue and positions AWS as a foundational partner providing advanced AI and cloud capabilities plus dedicated resources. The collaboration launches six mid-market offerings, now generally available and listed in the Accenture AWS Marketplace Storefront. These offerings cover secure cloud migration, managed infrastructure, AI-led customer experience and contact centers, cost optimization, AI risk testing and secure cloud foundations, aiming to help clients modernize core systems, strengthen security and achieve measurable business outcomes.
Accenture (ACN) and Google Cloud named Volvo Cars as the lead industry partner for Horizon, an open-source software development platform for Android Automotive Operating System (AAOS).
Volvo Cars is migrating its global AAOS software development to Horizon, which unifies cloud-native tools, virtual testing environments and AI-assisted workflows. The companies state that Horizon can deliver up to 9x faster software testing using virtual Cuttlefish-based AAOS environments and reduce infotainment feature development costs by up to 40%. Additional benefits include shorter software build times, global remote access to virtual and physical device farms, and virtual workbenches that cut developer onboarding from weeks to seconds. Insights from Volvo Cars’ use of Horizon are expected to help expand the platform’s generative AI capabilities for automotive and industrial manufacturers.
Accenture (ACN) and Anthropic are partnering to create a team of embedded evaluators working inside Anthropic to assess and strengthen AI model safety.
The evaluators will help red‑team models, conduct alignment assessments, and test safeguards alongside Anthropic’s internal teams and safety partners. Each company expects to invest at least $1 billion over the next five years in building AI safely. Accenture will draw on Faculty, its recently acquired applied AI company, which has extensive experience testing and evaluating models for leading AI labs and building safe-by-design systems across government, defense, healthcare and critical infrastructure.
Accenture (ACN) will hold a conference call at 8:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday, October 1, 2026, to discuss its fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 results.
An earnings news release will be issued before the call. Investors can join the teleconference by dialing +1 (877) 883-0383 in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada, or +1 (412) 317-6061 internationally, and entering access code 3533302 about 15 minutes before the start time. The call will also be streamed live via webcast in the Investor Relations section of the Accenture website, with a replay available online after the event.
Accenture (ACN) has been chosen by MotoGP Group to develop a next-generation direct-to-fan OTT streaming platform, targeted for launch in the 2027 MotoGP season.
The platform will unify MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3 and World Superbike under one architecture while allowing tailored experiences. Using Accenture Media Engage, part of the AI-powered Accenture Media Suite, it aims to enable multi-camera viewing, integrated live race data, personalization at scale and future immersive features, co-innovating with partners including AWS.
Accenture (ACN) has appointed Emma Chalwin as Chief Marketing Officer, effective October 1, 2026.
She will oversee the company’s global marketing and communications organizations and report to chair and CEO Julie Sweet. Chalwin previously served as CMO at Workday and held senior marketing roles at Salesforce, Adobe, McAfee and Macrovision. She brings more than 30 years of global marketing leadership and has been included in rankings such as Forbes' World's Most Influential CMOs and the B2B CMO 100.