Databricks, Accenture Launch Joint Business Venture Focused On Spurring AI Development

The new Accenture Databricks Business Group, tasked with expanding customer use of the Databricks platform for a broad range of AI tasks, is the latest expansion of the strategic alliance between the IT services giant and the fast-growing big data company.

Databricks and IT services giant Accenture are expanding their strategic partnership to launch a new business entity focused on helping clients adopt the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform as their core AI and data system.

The new Accenture Databricks Business Group, unveiled Tuesday, will be supported by more than 25,000 Databricks-trained professionals, according to a joint statement from the two companies.

The launch of the business group is the latest of several moves by Databricks in recent weeks, including an acquisition and the launch of its Genie Code autonomous AI agent, to expand the capabilities of its technology portfolio.

Databricks and Accenture already have a deep relationship: Databricks has recognized the IT systems integration giant as its Global SI Partner of the Year for seven consecutive years.

The new joint business group venture will work with enterprise customers to implement and scale components of the Databricks platform, including the Lakebase database, Databricks Lakehouse platform, Unity Catalog data catalog system, Genie conversational AI interface, and Agent Bricks tools for building production AI agents.

“AI has reached a point where business impact is the only metric that matters,” Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi said in the joint announcement with Accenture. “More enterprises are using Lakebase to create operational databases that can scale with agents and Genie to get AI in the hands of every employee. Our work with Accenture allows us to help more organizations deploy AI securely and responsibly so they can achieve the outcomes they care about most.”

The Accenture Databricks Business Group, which will operate within Accenture, will focus on a number of capabilities around the Databricks portfolio including building AI applications and agents on Lakebase, helping data teams implement and scale Genie, enabling Databricks across multi-cloud systems, and migrating legacy data systems to Databricks.

Leveraging Accenture’s broad vertical industry expertise to tailor Databricks data and AI use cases across financial services, retail, life sciences and more, is a key goal of the business group.

“With Databricks, we’re helping clients modernize their data foundation so they can build, scale and govern AI applications and agents with confidence,” Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said in the announcement. “Together, Accenture’s reinvention expertise and the Databricks platform help accelerate the shift from experimentation to production, safely scaling AI that delivers real business outcomes.”

Databricks and Accenture, the latter No. 1 on the CRN Solution Provider 500, cited food and drug retail giant Albertsons Companies, multinational chemical company BASF, and specialty pharmaceutical company Kyowa Kirin International (KKI) as examples of joint customers who are leveraging Databricks’ technology and Accenture’s services.

The joint venture with Accenture is the latest of several significant moves by Databricks. Last week the company unveiled Genie Code, an autonomous AI agent for data engineering and data science chores that can conduct such complex tasks as building data pipelines, debugging software failures, shipping dashboards and maintaining production systems. Genie Code is an addition to the broader Genie line of agentic tools.

Last week Databricks also acquired Quotient AI, a Boston-based startup that developed technology for continuous training of AI agents. Databricks is building Quotient AI’s technology into its Genie, Genie Code and Agent Bricks offerings.

In February San Francisco-based Databricks reported that it had surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $5.4 billion after recording 65 percent year-over-year growth during its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter ended Jan. 31.