Microsoft rolls out Copilot 365 AI assistant to all Accenture employees

8 articles · Updated · Reuters · Apr 27

The deployment covers all 743,000 Accenture staff worldwide, marking Microsoft's largest enterprise Copilot deal to date.
Accenture reports that 97% of surveyed employees completed routine tasks up to 15 times faster using Copilot, with 53% seeing major productivity gains.
This expansion follows Accenture's earlier plan to offer Copilot to 300,000 employees and comes amid investor concerns over Microsoft's AI investments and slow Copilot adoption.

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