Accenture and Palantir Expand Global Partnership to Scale Enterprise AI Delivery
December 16, 2025 - Accenture and Palantir launched the Accenture Palantir Business Group to speed up enterprise AI and data outcomes. As part of the deal, Accenture is now a preferred global partner for enterprise transformation.
Translation for IT and engineering leaders: expect faster pathways from siloed data to governed, production-grade decision systems built on Palantir Foundry and the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), with embedded teams from both firms working on-site and in the stack.
Key points
- Joint business group with dedicated Palantir forward deployed engineers (FDEs) and 2,000+ Accenture professionals skilled on Palantir tech.
- Mandate: move from fragmented data to integrated, AI-assisted decision making across complex operations.
- Initial traction in government and energy; expanding to healthcare, telecom, manufacturing, consumer goods, and financial services.
- Special focus on data center and AI infrastructure programs critical to economic resilience.
- Core platforms: Palantir Foundry and AIP, including secure compute in commercial and mission-critical environments.
What this means for IT and development teams
- PoC-to-production velocity: Embedded FDEs plus Accenture delivery muscle to reduce handoffs and cut integration lag.
- Federated data without chaos: Ontology-driven modeling and row/column-level controls to keep governance intact while shipping apps.
- LLMOps that respects policy: AIP orchestration on top of curated datasets, with audit trails and human-in-the-loop review.
- Regulated-sector posture: Fine-grained access, lineage, and deployment patterns for air-gapped or hybrid environments.
Executive perspective
"With this significant expansion of our ecosystem partnership with Palantir, our clients can accelerate advanced AI across the enterprise and deliver business outcomes faster," said Julie Sweet, chair and CEO, Accenture. "In our focus areas, the combination of Accenture's broad industry and functional experience with Palantir's powerful platforms will help enable organizations to build AI and data solutions and develop scalable enterprise AI systems that drive reinvention, create value and foster growth."
"Our expanded partnership with Accenture will help enterprises transform themselves at speed and scale using Palantir's platform," said Dr. Alex Karp, Palantir CEO and co-founder. "I am excited that our partnership will further accelerate the impact that both Accenture and Palantir are having in deploying AI-powered decision intelligence capabilities across industries."
Deployment blueprint (high level)
- Sources: ERP, MES/SCADA/OT, EHR, billing, telemetry, event streams.
- Ingestion: Batch and streaming into Foundry with data contracts and quality checks.
- Modeling: Foundry ontology for shared semantics; entity-level lineage and permissions.
- Features and retrieval: Feature pipelines and optionally a vector index for retrieval-augmented generation.
- Orchestration: AIP agents/workflows calling domain services and models with policy enforcement.
- Apps: Decision apps, copilots, and control dashboards with human oversight and feedback loops.
- Ops: CI/CD, model registry, canary releases, monitoring (cost, drift, safety), incident playbooks.
- Security: RBAC/ABAC, tokenization of sensitive fields, KMS-integrated secrets, private networking.
Where this fits
- Energy and O&G: Asset health, production planning, and field operations with OT data under tight controls.
- Healthcare: Care coordination and capacity planning with strict PHI governance.
- Telecom: Network planning, incident response, and field workforce routing.
- Manufacturing: Quality analytics, predictive maintenance, and supplier risk.
- Financial services: Fraud detection, credit risk workflows, and liquidity analytics.
Practical next steps
- Map your "critical decisions" backlog. Pick one that moves a core metric (cost per decision, time-to-resolution, SLA adherence).
- Inventory data sources and policy constraints. Define what must stay on-prem and where you can use hybrid patterns.
- Stand up identity integration first (SSO, SCIM, group mapping). Then enforce column/row policies from day one.
- Ship a thin slice in 8-12 weeks: curated dataset → ontology → one decision app or copilot → monitoring.
- Operationalize: CI/CD, model governance, and cost controls. Add feedback capture for continuous improvement.
Team model to expect
Palantir FDEs typically embed with your engineers and Accenture's delivery teams. The goal: ship production workflows while transferring patterns and playbooks your org can run long-term. Plan for product owners and security partners to be in the room from sprint one.
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Forward-Looking Statements
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