Google Cloud and Accenture join forces

The two companies launched the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, combining Accenture staff, Google engineers, and industry experts to help customers scale AI projects.

The AI promise-delivery gap

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet says tech companies promised AI would drive growth, but customers report it's not happening. The new group aims to close that gap.

“We get it, except it's not happening; help us make it happen.”

Forward-deployed engineers as solution

The partnership will train and certify a thousand-person team of forward-deployed engineers with expertise in Gemini Enterprise to work directly with customers on implementation.

Four key priorities for the unit

The group will increase Gemini adoption, build industry-specific solutions, create capability centers to bridge experimentation and transformation, and drive user adoption at scale.

Healthcare shows the real challenge

Healthcare IT leaders say forward-deployed engineers accelerate time-to-value and reduce implementation risk by bridging what vendors promise and what clinicians actually need.

“FDEs bridge the chasm between what vendors promise and what clinicians actually need.”

The real barrier to AI success

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says customers struggle to understand how to redesign business processes with AI and make organizational changes. The new unit addresses this directly.