Accenture Buys Clarity for AI, Machine Learning Expertise

Accenture is dipping into its massive wallet again in the waning days of 2019 to buy Clarity Insights, an expert in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning that will add to the systems integrator's data analytics capabilities. The Lowdown: The planned acquisition of Clarity will help Accenture address the growing demand among enterprises to scale their AI and machine learning efforts and to more quickly analyze the rapidly growing amount of data that they're generating. The Details: Clarity, an 11-year-old data analytics consulting firm based in Chicago, will become part of Accenture's Applied Intelligence business, a unit that the company has been expanding both through internal innovation and acquisitions, including Knowledgent and Kogentix in 2018 and more recently Pragsis Bidoop and Analytics8 this year. Clarity's business is built around working with large enterprises from the time they launch their AI, analytics, and automation initiatives to implementing the strategy and supplying engineering capabilities. The acquisition will add almost 350 new employees to Accenture's workforce of more than 492,000.