Accenture said the acquisition will further equip its clients with capabilities to meet the growing demand for enterprise-scale AI, analytics and automation solutions. On Friday (13 December), professional services company Accenture announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Clarity Insights. Clarity Insights, a Chicago-based data consultancy with deep data science, AI and machine learning expertise, will bring its 350 employees to Accenture's Applied Intelligence business in North America. Founded in 2008, Clarity Insights focuses on serving clients' needs from end to end, aiming to transform business processes to embed and scale AI with deeper insights from data. Accenture did not disclose the terms of the deal.

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.

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.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced on Friday it has completed its acquisition of consulting firm, Silveo. According to Accenture, Silveo is a French consulting company providing services and solutions for digital manufacturing and intelligent supply chains. Accenture also noted that Silveo brings a team of 50 professionals, who are joining Accenture Industry X.0. The latest acquisition comes just after Accenture announced it has agreed to acquire Clarity Insights, a U.S.-based data consultancy with deep data science, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) expertise. Accenture claims that Clarity Insights is a leading provider of data science and AI/ML engineering capabilities for large enterprises, and a strategic partner to clients across a range of industries, particularly healthcare, financial services, and insurance.

Accenture said the acquisition will further equip its clients with capabilities to meet the growing demand for enterprise-scale AI, analytics and automation solutions. On Friday (13 December), professional services company Accenture announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Clarity Insights. Clarity Insights, a Chicago-based data consultancy with deep data science, AI and machine learning expertise, will bring its 350 employees to Accenture's Applied Intelligence business in North America. Founded in 2008, Clarity Insights focuses on serving clients' needs from end to end, aiming to transform business processes to embed and scale AI with deeper insights from data. Accenture, which is headquartered in Dublin, did not disclose the terms of the deal.

As we look at 2018 and predict changes on the way, they coalesce under a singular point of view: this year is all about bringing intelligence to our data-science processes. Last year we created dashboards and started asking how to turn data into real insights that we could act on; this year we'll see changes that enable us to build and deploy intelligent applications. The hottest topic in financial news this year--and most of last year--is Bitcoin. With the CBOE and CME launching Bitcoin futures in December 2017, the currency has sparked many academic conversations, but we'll see practical repercussions beyond rampant cryptocurrency speculation. The year 2018 will be when blockchain goes mainstream.