Accenture Strengthens Palantir, Gen AI with Decho

Accenture acquires UK AI-consultancy Decho

Accenture acquired Decho, a UK-based AI and technology consultancy specializing in assisting businesses optimize through delivery, design, and bolstering of Palantir solutions.

The move optimizes Accenture’s planned advisory and engineering forte in Palantir technologies. This strengthens its ability to help clients across the government, health, military, and commercial pockets in the UK and worldwide.

Palantir’s alliance partner, Decho, specializes in assisting enterprises transform AI tasks from paper to production quickly with lasting influence.

The company pioneers in data model design, platform deployment, capability development, and application engineering, along with exhaustive training sessions to make teams ready for prolonged adoption.

The acquisition strengthens Accenture’s commitment to fueling business revolution with the help of Palantir’s software ecosystem. This facilitates the optimization of generative AI solutions, bolstering competitive benefits, and encouraging the future era of AI-based productivity.

“Gen AI has enormous potential but needs the right platform and expertise to deliver real outcomes,”

said Bryan Rich, global Data and AI lead for Health and Public Service at Accenture.

“Decho is uniquely positioned to provide capabilities required in the most demanding industries with their combined Palantir and gen AI expertise, strong ecosystem relationships and proprietary products. Our acquisition of Decho helps our public and commercial sector clients gain data and AI advantage to meet their critical objectives and reinvent their operations with more transparency and resilience.”

Decho adds a team of over 40 specialist engineers skilled across Palantir’s Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), who will join Accenture’s Data and AI organization in the UK.

“Our engineers deliver on an urgent market need for expertise in leading-edge Palantir technologies and for working with clients on transformative solutions”

said Anna Davies, Co-founder and Managing Director at Decho.

“By scaling our deep software understanding with Accenture’s data and AI capabilities, we can jointly help organizations integrate gen AI where it matters the most – and drive tangible and enduring outcomes.”

Business acquisition complements Accenture’s strategic objective of optimizing service offers in crucial sectors. Besides, it highlights the company’s continual investment in AI and data systems to help clients resolve persisting industrial challenges. Transaction’s figurative terms are yet to be disclosed.