Addition of local French data strategy,
architecture, governance, and implementation capabilities would
help clients scale artificial intelligence
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into an agreement to acquire
Sentelis, an independent data consulting and engineering company,
headquartered in France, that specializes in designing and scaling
data and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Sentelis would
join Accenture Applied Intelligence and complement its focus on
helping clients build the right data strategy and foundation to
industrialize AI across their businesses.
With a strong focus on industrializing AI and big data
technologies, Sentelis has more than 50 highly skilled
professionals, including data and AI advisors, architects and
engineers. Since its founding in 2011, Sentelis has helped numerous
clients, including some of the largest French companies, architect,
engineer and scale adapted and secure data-centric architecture,
enabling them to accelerate business innovation.
The combination of Sentelis’s industry experience, particularly
in financial services and retail, with Accenture’s expertise in
global large-scale artificial intelligence and machine learning
engineering initiatives would provide highly differentiated
end-to-end services to the European market.
“The addition of the strong technical talent of Sentelis’s
teams, combined with our AI and big data solutions, and deep
industry expertise, would be a major opportunity to strengthen and
broaden our ability to help clients scale AI across their
businesses,” said Olivier Girard, market unit lead, Accenture
France and Benelux. “In addition to organically growing talent,
Accenture’s strategic approach to acquisitions is designed to
ensure the right capabilities are in place to meet existing, as
well as emerging, client needs with speed and scale. Together, we
would be able to help a broader range of clients industrialize
innovation in data strategy and AI.”
“Our research shows that a strong data foundation underpins an
organization’s ability to successfully scale AI,” said Athina
Kanioura, chief analytics officer and global lead for Accenture
Applied Intelligence. “Strategic acquisitions — like Sentelis — are
bringing greater capacity and enhanced capabilities to our data and
AI client work. Sentelis’s data strategy, architecture and
engineering skills align seamlessly with Accenture’s focus on
industrialized, end-to-end solutions. With the addition of
Sentelis, we would see even greater opportunity to accelerate how
our clients gain value from data and AI across their business.”
“Today, smart businesses are adopting and pursuing digital
transformation to balance innovation and industrialization at
scale, and to allow their organizations to be seamlessly integrated
with the wider ecosystem. To create an intelligent enterprise, it
must be built around a mix of digital platforms, with data and AI
at its core,” said Isabelle Regnier and Jean-Baptiste Ceccaldi,
respectively executive director and president of Sentelis. “This is
why, in today’s growing data-driven market, joining Accenture would
be a unique opportunity to enlarge our approach to new sectors and
help more organizations to leverage their information systems to
accelerate their digital transformations.”
This acquisition would strengthen Accenture's growing analytics,
AI and ML/data engineering business in France. Global growth in AI
client engagements has also served as a driver for Accenture’s
recent acquisitions of Analytics8 in Australia, Pragsis Bidoop in
Spain, Clarity Insights in North America, Mudano in the UK and Byte
Prophecy in India.
The acquisition requires prior consultation with the relevant
works councils and would be subject to customary closing
conditions. Financial terms of the transaction are not being
disclosed.
About Accenture
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providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting,
interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities
across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and
specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered
by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and
Intelligent Operations centers. With 509,000 people serving clients
in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation
to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value
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our clients. We embed AI-powered data, analytics and automation
capabilities into business workflows to accelerate time to value.
Our expertise in defining end-to-end strategy, combined with deep
data infrastructure capabilities, cognitive services and
industrialized accelerators help smooth clients’ path to AI
adoption, extending human capabilities and supporting clients in
scaling AI responsibly. Recognized as a leader by industry
analysts, we collaborate with a powerful global alliance,
innovation and delivery network to help clients deploy and scale AI
within any market and industry. Follow @AccentureAI and visit
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