Accenture ushers in holiday season with $1.2 billion in Gen AI orders
Live MintAccenture Plc, the world’s largest software services company, secured $1.2 billion in generative AI bookings in the quarter-ended November 2024, bringing its total orders in the segment to $4.2 billion since September 2023. Accenture, which follows a September-August financial year, was the first software services company to state Gen AI deal value in June last year when it won $100 million in pure-play Gen AI projects in the quarter. $1-bn of projects in Aug qtr Accenture reported $1 billion in Gen AI projects in the three months ending August 2024, taking its total order bookings to $3 billion in a year. To put it in perspective, Accenture’s total order bookings from Gen AI are roughly the same as the FY24 revenue of LTIMindtree Ltd, India’s sixth largest software services company.