{"id":609917,"date":"2026-04-27T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609917\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:34:09","slug":"accenture-to-roll-out-copilot-to-all-743000-employees-in-boost-for-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609917\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture to roll out Copilot to all 743,000 employees in boost for Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Aditya Soni<\/p>\n

April 27 (Reuters) – Microsoft<\/a> is rolling out its Copilot 365 AI assistant to all of Accenture’s roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for \u200cthe chatbot as the software giant seeks to convert more of its vast customer \u200cbase into paying users.<\/p>\n

Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed by the companies in a joint statement on \u200bMonday. It is a major boost for Microsoft as just a little more than 3% of its over 450 million 365 enterprise users pay for the $30-a-month offering.<\/p>\n

Slow Copilot adoption and uneven cloud growth have deepened investor worries over returns from Microsoft’s hefty AI outlay. Its shares are down 12% \u200cthis year, after their biggest quarterly \u2060drop since the 2008 financial crisis in January to March.<\/p>\n

The move builds on Accenture’s plan in 2024 to offer Copilot to as many as 300,000 \u2060employees. The company has emerged as one of the most aggressive corporate adopters of AI, even tying top-level promotions to the technology’s usage, per media reports.<\/p>\n

Charles Lamanna, who leads Microsoft’s M365 apps and Copilot \u200bplatform, \u200btold Reuters that efforts to offer multiple AI models, \u200bincluding Anthropic and tools such as “Critique” – \u200cwhich uses one model to check another’s output – are aiding demand.<\/p>\n

Microsoft has recently pushed Anthropic’s technology aggressively to customers, aiming to reduce its OpenAI<\/a> reliance while tapping demand for products from the Claude creator.<\/p>\n

A reworked partnership unveiled earlier on Monday ends Microsoft’s exclusive access to OpenAI’s technology, clearing the way for the ChatGPT creator to sell its products across rival cloud platforms.<\/p>\n

ACCENTURE TOUTS \u200cPRODUCTIVITY GAINS FROM AI<\/p>\n

Accenture said the initial Copilot deployment \u200bhas paid off.<\/p>\n

About 97% of staff said Copilot helped them complete \u200broutine tasks up to 15 times \u200bfaster, while 53% reported major gains in productivity, according to a self-reported company \u200csurvey of 200,000 users.<\/p>\n

“Our teams are already \u200bdoing higher-value work because \u200bof it,” Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said.<\/p>\n

The remarks follow recent reports that have raised doubts about productivity gains from AI.<\/p>\n

A survey of nearly 6,000 senior executives at U.S., UK, \u200bGerman and Australian firms, published \u200cby the National Bureau of Economic Research in February, found nearly 90% said AI \u200bhad no impact on employment or productivity over the past three years.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by \u200bAditya Soni in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Aditya Soni April 27 (Reuters) – Microsoft is rolling out its Copilot 365 AI assistant to all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[10459,182,101738,181,507,34691,1281,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-609917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-accenture","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-ai-assistant","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-copilot","14":"tag-microsoft","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}