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Accenture Launches AI Refinery for Industry to Reinvent Processes and Accelerate Agentic AI Journeys

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  • Accenture launched AI Refinery™ for Industry, featuring 12 AI agent solutions designed to accelerate deployment and customization for industry-specific challenges, leveraging NVIDIA’s AI software to reduce implementation time from months to days.
  • Initial applications include revenue growth management, clinical trial companions, industrial asset troubleshooting, and B2B marketing, with plans to expand to over 100 agent solutions addressing diverse industry needs by year-end.
  • Building on its collaboration with NVIDIA and internal AI adoption, Accenture aims to enhance workforce productivity and industry processes, driving innovation and efficiency across cloud and SaaS ecosystems globally.

PRESS RELEASE — Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has launched AI Refinery™ for Industry with a collection of 12 industry agent solutions to help organizations rapidly build and deploy a network of AI agents that can enhance its workforce, address industry-specific challenges and drive business value faster. Today’s announcement builds on Accenture’s investments and leadership in driving generative AI reinvention for clients, having supported more than 2,000 projects for organizations across industries.

These industry agents, codified with business workflows and industry expertise, will accelerate the deployment of specialized, multi-agent networks ready to be customized with an organization’s data. Powered by Accenture AI Refinery — which is built with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, including NVIDIA NeMo, NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA AI Blueprints, including Video Search and Summarization and Digital Human — these industry solutions can reduce the time to build and derive value from agents from months or weeks to days.

“The launch of AI Refinery for Industry represents an expansion of the platform and our collaboration with NVIDIA — which helps clients convert raw AI technologies and tools into scaled enterprise AI systems — providing a foundation to accelerate agentic functionality and reimagine functions and industry processes,” said Lan Guan, chief AI officer, Accenture. “Our new industry agent solutions will empower organizations to conceptualize agents and quickly prove their value, hitting the ground running on day one as a network of digital teammates.”

Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI software products, NVIDIA, added, “Agentic AI is the next wave of artificial intelligence, providing enterprises everywhere with the ability to supercharge productivity with agents that can solve complex, multi-step problems. Built on the full NVIDIA AI software stack, Accenture’s AI Refinery for Industry democratizes access to advanced AI capabilities so that businesses can rapidly implement custom AI agents that drive efficiency and foster unprecedented innovation.”

With plans to expand to more than 100 AI Refinery for Industry agent solutions by the end of the year, the first 12 will be available by the end of next month. They aim to address critical industry challenges such as:

  • Revenue Growth Management for Consumer Goods and Services: Revenue growth managers and account leads can be empowered to make informed decisions and respond faster to market changes using an orchestrated agent system. Agents automate key decision processes related to promotional activities to maximize revenue across product lines and markets, directly contributing to top-line growth.
  • Clinical Trial Companion for Life Sciences: As a clinical trial companion, AI agents can work with patients and clinicians to personalize trial plans, outline tasks and requirements from start to finish and provide guidance and motivation throughout a patient’s clinical trial journey. AI agents can be trained to answer trial-specific questions in real-time, offering clarity, support and a seamless experience, while reducing participant drop-out rates and driving greater success and value in clinical trials.
  • Asset Troubleshooting for Industrial: Using advanced multi-agent systems, engineers and operators can be empowered to swiftly troubleshoot or resolve industrial equipment issues. By integrating real-time data, signal correlation, automated inspections, and actionable recommendations, this system can help to maintain operational excellence by reducing downtime, enhancing decision-making, and transitioning autonomous maintenance from reactive to proactive.
  • B2B Marketing: AI agents will provide strategic insights, automate workflows, and enhance decision-making, helping marketers deliver faster, smarter and more consistent campaigns. Agents centralize cultural, client, competitor and company data to craft relevant marketing strategies, and provide insights on program performance, sales growth opportunities and future planning optimization.​

Accenture AI Refinery for Industry is available on all public and private cloud platforms and will integrate seamlessly with other Accenture Business Groups to accelerate AI across the SaaS and Cloud AI ecosystem.

Today’s announcement expands the impact of the Accenture NVIDIA Business Group and its collaboration with NVIDIA to bring AI to the world’s enterprises.

Accenture Continues to Scale Agentic AI
More than 600 marketing professionals at Accenture are now equipped to use autonomous agents to craft more effective, intelligent and rapid marketing campaigns, as well as enhance their daily activities. Agents provide insights on specific audience needs and the broader market environment, helping marketers personalize messages. By delving into analytics from past campaigns, agents also uncover connections that empower marketers to efficiently use and reuse assets. With access to over 20 data sources, they can deliver answers to questions in minutes or even seconds. Accenture is now piloting content production agents to enable the hyper-customization of content, with plans to deploy them more broadly next month.

About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services — creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 799,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at accenture.com.

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