Accenture acquires European data services firm

Accenture has acquired Spanish analytics services firm Pragsis Bidoop. Headquartered in Madrid with additional offices in Barcelona and the UK, Pragsis will add more than 200 employees with deep machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data engineering experience to Accenture's Applied Intelligence business. Accenture Applied Intelligence serves the European and Latin American markets by helping enterprise clients scale their deployments of AI, analytics and automation to make improved data-driven decisions. Founded in 2004, Pragsis Bidoop has a diversified client base of Ibex-35 companies in Spain and multinational corporations with a presence in Mexico, Brazil and other Latin America markets. The company specialises in service provisioning for corporations in a range of industries, from banking and insurance to retail, energy, railways, the public sector and pharma.