Accenture deploys Copilot to 743,000
- Accenture said Monday it is making Microsoft 365 Copilot available to its roughly 743,000 employees, completing Microsoft’s biggest enterprise Copilot rollout so far. - Accenture said a 200,000-user deployment reached 89% monthly active use, with 97% reporting routine tasks finished up to 15 times faster. - The deal tests whether pricey workplace AI can scale beyond pilots as Microsoft chases paying users. (reuters.com)
Accenture is putting Microsoft 365 Copilot in front of roughly 743,000 employees, giving Microsoft its biggest enterprise Copilot rollout so far. (reuters.com) The companies announced the move on April 27, and neither disclosed the financial terms. Reuters reported it as Microsoft tries to turn more of its Microsoft 365 base into paying Copilot customers. (reuters.com) Microsoft 365 Copilot is the artificial-intelligence assistant built into workplace apps like Outlook, Teams and Word. It drafts emails, summarizes meetings and documents, and answers questions using a company’s own files and messages. (news.microsoft.com) (microsoft.com) Accenture said it started with a pilot of a few hundred senior leaders and selected employees, then expanded to 20,000 users before widening the rollout again. The company said the phased approach focused on data governance, access controls and how people were actually using the tool. (news.microsoft.com) In 2025 data covering 200,000 users, Accenture said 89% were monthly active users. It also said 97% reported completing routine tasks up to 15 times faster, while 53% reported significant productivity and efficiency gains. (news.microsoft.com) Tony Leraris, Accenture’s chief information officer, said the company treated each phase as a chance to set guardrails before expanding further. Julie Sweet, Accenture’s chief executive, said teams were already doing “higher-value work” because of the software. (news.microsoft.com) (reuters.com) The rollout lands as Microsoft faces questions about whether Copilot can justify its price in ordinary office work. Reuters reported that a little more than 3% of Microsoft’s more than 450 million Microsoft 365 enterprise users pay for the $30-a-month add-on. (reuters.com) Reuters also noted that a February National Bureau of Economic Research survey of nearly 6,000 senior executives in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Australia found nearly 90% said artificial intelligence had no effect on employment or productivity over the previous three years. (reuters.com) Accenture had already said in 2024 that it planned to offer Copilot to as many as 300,000 employees. The new figure pushes that effort to the company’s full workforce, which Microsoft described as spread across more than 120 countries. (reuters.com) (news.microsoft.com) The result is a companywide test of whether generative AI can move from limited pilots into everyday office systems at global scale. For Microsoft, the Accenture rollout is now the clearest public proof point it has. (reuters.com)
