Accenture to Train 30,000 Professionals on Anthropic’s Claude

Accenture has expanded its partnership with Anthropic, launching a multi-year initiative to train around 30,000 employees on Claude and embed the model across enterprise environments. 

The new unit, branded the Accenture Anthropic Business Group, is positioned as one of the largest concentrations of Claude practitioners globally.

The collaboration is designed to move large organisations out of the AI pilot phase and into broad production deployment. Accenture framed this as a targeted investment in talent, solution development, and go-to-market capacity. 

As part of the expansion, Accenture also becomes a premier AI partner for coding with Claude Code, making the tool available to tens of thousands of developers, which marks Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment to date.

Beyond training, both companies are launching a joint offering aimed at CIOs. The product provides a structured path for scaling AI-powered software development, built around Claude Code and Accenture’s frameworks for quantifying productivity gains, ROI, and workflow redesign. 

It is intended to shift engineering organisations to an AI-first operating model, with change-management support and continuous training baked in.

The partnership also includes co-developed solutions for regulated industries, financial services, life sciences, healthcare, and the public sector, where modernisation is constrained by security, compliance, and legacy systems. 

Besides, planned use cases include automating document-heavy compliance tasks in banking, assisting R&D teams in life sciences, and enabling AI agents that help citizens navigate government services while preserving data-governance requirements.

To support hands-on experimentation, Accenture will integrate Claude into its global network of Innovation Hubs, allowing clients to prototype and test AI systems in controlled environments before broad rollout. 

The companies will additionally create a Claude Center of Excellence inside Accenture to jointly design new AI offerings tailored to enterprise and regulatory contexts.

“Organisations can embed AI everywhere responsibly and at speed,” said Julie Sweet, Accenture’s CEO. “This partnership moves clients from experimentation to reinvention.”

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the partnership represents the company’s largest real-world deployment of Claude Code so far, adding that the new business group will help enterprises “make major productivity gains” using Anthropic’s most capable models.

In a similar move, Accenture also recently entered a collaboration with OpenAI, which will roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to tens of thousands of its employees, which the company says is the largest group to be upskilled through OpenAI Certifications.

Accenture will use the tool across consulting, operations and delivery work as it builds new AI services for clients.