Accenture deploys Copilot to 743,000

Microsoft said on April 27 that Accenture is rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot out to about 743,000 employees, which it called the largest enterprise deployment so far. (news.microsoft.com) Accenture’s chief information officer, Tony Leraris, said the company began in August 2023 with a pilot for a few hundred senior leaders and select staff before expanding to 20,000 users. (news.microsoft.com) Microsoft reported that, in Accenture’s 2025 internal data covering 200,000 users, 97% of employees said they completed routine tasks 15 times faster with Copilot. The same dataset found 53% reported significant gains in productivity and efficiency. (news.microsoft.com) Microsoft 365 Copilot is the assistant built into workplace apps like Outlook, Teams, and Word, and Accenture said it spent the early phases on data governance, access controls, and adoption rules. Leraris said the company used those stages to set guardrails before widening access. (news.microsoft.com) The company’s public target was much smaller in November 2024, when Accenture, Microsoft, and Avanade said Accenture had deployed 100,000 Microsoft 365 Copilots and agents and planned to expand to about 200,000 users. That same announcement launched a Copilot business transformation practice staffed by 5,000 professionals and backed by more than 50,000 Copilot-trained workers across Accenture and Avanade. (newsroom.accenture.com) (news.microsoft.com) An April 2025 Microsoft document tied to Accenture’s Copilot practice showed 101,500 licenses assigned internally at that point, with 79% active users over a four-week period ending Feb. 27. The same document said users had taken 2.8 million Copilot actions and logged 275,000 Copilot-assisted hours. (microsoft.com) That April 2025 document also broke out where employees were using the tool: 477,000 actions to summarize Teams meetings, 230,000 to draft emails, 835,000 Copilot Chat work prompts, and 72,000 document-creation actions. It said 93% of employees reported completing tasks faster with Copilot and 72% said repetitive work caused less mental fatigue. (microsoft.com) Accenture framed the internal rollout as part of its client business, not just an employee software project. In November 2024, Julie Sweet said the company was investing with Microsoft to help clients integrate generative and agentic artificial intelligence across business functions. (newsroom.accenture.com) The new figure shows how far that internal deployment has moved in less than 18 months: from 100,000 users disclosed in November 2024 to a stated rollout across roughly 743,000 employees in April 2026. (newsroom.accenture.com) (news.microsoft.com)