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 ...