AI + Data: Accenture and Snowflake Fuel Enterprise Shift

To scale generative AI innovation and commercial outcomes for clients like Caterpillar, Accenture and Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud startup, are extending their partnership.

With this announcement of the creation of the Accenture Snowflake Business Group, the companies can assist more businesses in reimagining their business models by utilizing the power of cloud, AI, and data, anchored by Accenture AI RefineryTM and more recent innovations like Snowflake Intelligence and Snowflake Cortex AI.

“In today’s rapidly evolving market, companies are under immense pressure to reinvent their operations and business models to stay ahead,”

said Manish Sharma, Chief Strategy and Services Officer, Accenture.

“The Accenture Snowflake Business Group will help clients to better leverage Snowflake’s unique foundation of reliable, accessible, contextualized data, coupled with Accenture’s ability to unlock the power of advanced AI for clients faster.”

“Our partnership with Accenture has empowered hundreds of organizations to unlock AI’s potential and reveal previously unimaginable insights,”

said Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO, Snowflake.

“The Accenture Snowflake Business Group combines Accenture’s industry-leading business reinvention experience with Snowflake’s enterprise-ready, easy, connected, and trusted platform. This collaboration enables enterprises to achieve their full potential with AI and data, transforming how they harness data to build next-generation AI-powered applications, drive better decision-making, and maximize their data’s potential for AI innovation.”

Caterpillar, a well-known maker of industrial equipment worldwide, is collaborating with Accenture and Snowflake to fully utilize its operational data.

Better manufacturing quality, timely financial insights, and better knowledge management for difficult tasks will all result from this.

Caterpillar’s enterprise-wide AI and data transformation will be accelerated by the partnership, which combines Accenture’s industrial manufacturing, AI and data experience, and global delivery capability with Snowflake’s AI capabilities.

“Our work with Accenture and Snowflake marks a major step forward in our journey to become a truly AI-and-data-driven organization,”

said Jamie Engstrom, CIO, Caterpillar.

“Our collaboration, coupled with the Caterpillar IT AI COE, will allow us to make faster, data-informed decisions that improve efficiency, enhance quality, and deliver greater value.”