2 min Applications

Accenture adds 10,000 Microsoft-focused consultants to company

Accenture adds 10,000 Microsoft-focused consultants to company

Accenture has launched a new Accenture Microsoft Business Group (AMBG). In addition, the company has added 10,000 additional Microsoft-focused consultants to its organization, reports ZDNet. The consultants mainly focus on services related to Azure migrations, Microsoft Dynamics CRM/ERP and Microsoft 365.

The company already has 35,000 consultants working solely with Microsoft, thanks to the Avanade Microsoft-Accenture joint venture. This brings the total number of professionals that focus on Microsoft to 45,000. The new team will be led by Emma McGuigan, senior managing director.

Collaboration

The announcement of the new Microsoft Business Group is the next phase in the collaboration with Microsoft, Accenture and Avanade, which was announced last year. In the cooperation so called vertical AI services have to be made. For example, we are working on tailor-made AI solutions that focus on three markets: consumer goods, telecommunications and retail.

In addition, the two companies are bringing Intelligent Revenue Growth (IRG) to Microsoft’s AI platform for the goods market. IRG uses machine learning to find opportunities for the sales department of companies, after which they can make quick decisions.

The partnership is an extension of the agents that Microsoft already had in development for customers such as HP and Macy’s. The work falls under Dynamics 365 AI Solutions and uses Microsoft Knowledge Graph, Bing Data and the Microsoft Machine-reading technology.

Accenture

Accenture has been the largest Windows 10 store in the world since a few years ago, and even bigger than Microsoft itself. However, the company does not only focus on the sale of Microsoft solutions. For example, in July last year it created a Google Cloud Platform Business Group and it has an AWS Business Group.

The AWS Business Group was expanded last year to include cloud migration and blockchain services. With Google we are working on solutions that give enterprises data insights.

This news article was automatically translated from Dutch to give Techzine.eu a head start. All news articles after September 1, 2019 are written in native English and NOT translated. All our background stories are written in native English as well. For more information read our launch article.