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Accenture enters an agreement to acquire engineering consulting and services firm umlaut in an effort to drive deep engineering capabilities. The idea is to help companies tap digital technologies such as cloud tech, artificial intelligence and 5G in an efficient manner.
Per Newsroom:
- The acquisition of umlaut will add more than 4,200 industry-leading engineers and consultants across 17 countries to Accenture’s Industry X services, and expand the company’s capabilities across a range of industries, including automotive, aerospace & defense, telecommunications, energy and utilities.
- Accenture is expanding Industry X at a time when software increasingly determines the market success of platforms, products and services across industries that require intelligence to be embedded. However, in a survey of more than 1,500 industry executives, Accenture research found that only 38% of companies have deployed at least one project to digitize their engineering and manufacturing.
