Accenture has announced the acquisition of Decho, a UK-based technology and artificial intelligence consultancy specializing in Palantir solutions. The move reinforces Accenture's expanding leadership in AI, data, and digital transformation, particularly across healthcare, government, defense, and public service sectors in the UK and globally.
Decho, a recognized Palantir strategic alliance partner, focuses on enabling organizations to move AI initiatives from concept to production quickly and effectively. The firm's expertise spans platform deployment, data model design, application engineering, and capability development, as well as training teams to ensure sustainable adoption of AI technologies.
Through this acquisition, Accenture aims to further integrate Palantir's platforms with its own enterprise data and AI capabilities, unlocking new levels of operational efficiency and insight for clients in highly regulated and complex industries.
The acquisition marks another step in Accenture's broader strategy to help enterprises harness the full potential of Gen AI through secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready solutions. By leveraging Palantir's Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), Accenture and Decho will collaborate to accelerate the deployment of real-world Gen AI solutions designed to enhance transparency, productivity, and resilience in critical operations.
Decho brings more than 40 specialist engineers with advanced Palantir expertise who will join Accenture's Data and AI organization in the UK. Their integration will enhance Accenture's capacity to deploy, operationalize, and scale Palantir-based solutions, providing clients with an end-to-end pathway to extract actionable value from their data architecture and AI infrastructure.
The acquisition also highlights Accenture's continued commitment to strengthening its position as the partner of choice for AI-driven transformation, combining global delivery scale with localized innovation.
The deal aligns with the company's strategic priority to advance digital reinvention across essential industries, enabling organizations to make faster, data-informed decisions while achieving measurable impact in performance, compliance, and service delivery.
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"Gen AI has enormous potential but needs the right platform and expertise to deliver real outcomes. 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."
Bryan Rich, Global Data and AI Lead for Health and Public Service at Accenture
"Our engineers deliver on an urgent market need for expertise in leading-edge Palantir technologies and for working with clients on transformative solutions. 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."