Archive · 8 Sep 2026
Google Cloud and Accenture Launch On-Site AI Engineering Unit
Google Cloud and Accenture launched a new unit focused on placing AI engineers on-site with customers.
Accenture already had forward-deployed engineers before the group was formally established.
Accenture typically deploys one or more teams, known as pods, inside customer organizations.
The pods include engineers, industry experts, process experts and data experts.
These teams work with internal IT departments and increasingly with functional leaders such as chief financial officers.
- Who
- Google Cloud and Accenture, along with Accenture’s forward-deployed engineers and specialist teams.
- What
- The companies launched a unit that places AI engineers on-site with customers.
- When
- The formal launch occurred after Accenture had already been deploying forward-deployed engineers.
- Where
- At customer organizations and alongside their internal IT and functional teams.
- Why
- To build AI solutions and work with customers’ technology, business-process, industry and data teams.
- Organizations
- Google Cloud and Accenture
- New unit
- An on-site AI engineering group
- Existing practice
- Accenture already deployed forward-deployed engineers before the group was formalized
- Team structure
- Accenture commonly deploys one or more pods
- Pod members
- Forward-deployed engineers, industry experts, process experts and data experts
- Customer counterparts
- Internal IT departments and increasingly functional leaders
- Example of functional leader
- Chief financial officer