Accenture and Databricks partner on agent AI

Accenture and Databricks announced the launch of the Accenture Databricks Business Group on March 17, 2026 to accelerate deployment of AI applications and agents across enterprises. (newsroom.accenture.com) The business group will be supported by more than 25,000 Databricks‑trained professionals, which the companies say will form the largest certified talent pool in the Databricks ecosystem. (crn.com) The partnership explicitly targets deployment of Databricks products named in the release: Lakebase (a serverless Postgres built for AI), Genie (conversational access to data), Agent Bricks (agent-building tooling) and the Lakehouse architecture. (markets.ft.com) Accenture and Databricks listed early customer examples — Albertsons, BASF and Kyowa Kirin International — as organizations already working with the teams to build “agent‑ready” databases and AI applications on enterprise data. (newsroom.accenture.com) Accenture’s prior product, Trusted Agent Huddle (announced April 28, 2025), included Databricks and vendors such as NVIDIA as integration partners, underscoring Accenture’s multi‑vendor agent interoperability strategy. (secure.businesswire.com) Databricks’ Agent Bricks is described in vendor documentation as automating model trials, fine‑tuning on customer data, running hyperparameter sweeps and evaluating agents to produce domain‑specific, production‑ready agent systems. (learn.microsoft.com) Industry reporting frames the move as an effort to position Databricks as the core data‑and‑AI system for clients while using Accenture’s scale to operationalize Lakehouse and agent deployments across industries. (crn.com)