Google and Accenture are putting 1,000 engineers inside client offices
The chief executive of a consultancy with 799,000 staff has described what her clients are telling her about AI, and it is not a sales pitch.
“We promised AI can do that,” Julie Sweet told the Wall Street Journal. “And they’re like, we get it, except it’s not happening, help us make it happen.”
Sweet was explaining why Accenture and Google Cloud have formed a new unit. Isabelle Bousquette reported the plan for the Wall Street Journal an hour before the companies announced it.
What they are actually building
The Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group will put engineers inside client offices.
Google Cloud will help train up to 1,000 Accenture forward-deployed engineers, who work on-site to plan and build applications on Google’s Gemini Enterprise platform. Accenture industry and process specialists sit alongside them, plus a small number of Google Cloud engineers reserved for top-tier customers.
Neither company would disclose financials....
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