Accenture grows AI skills amid enterprise talent shortage

This story was originally published on CIO Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily CIO Dive newsletter. Dive Brief:  Accenture is deepening relationships with Microsoft and Databricks, two long-time technology partners, to ease AI adoption for enterprises. A day before its Q2 2026 earnings, Accenture announced plans to launch a forward deployed engineering practice with Microsoft. Separately, it’s launching the Accenture Databricks Business Group to build AI agent-ready datab ...