Accenture, Workday announced joint forward-deployed engineering program

The company states: “Accenture (ACN), in collaboration with Workday (WDAY) announced a joint forward deployed engineering – FDE – program to help organizations reinvent how work gets done in the age of AI. hrough the FDE program, Accenture and Workday will work alongside client HR and finance teams to bring agentic capabilities into production, helping organizations get Workday agents up and running faster and see ROI on their investments sooner. The teams will combine Accenture’s function, industry, and engineering expertise with Workday’s trusted agentic platform capabilities, working within clients’ actual processes, data, policies and controls. The program will benefit from Accenture’s own experience deploying and extending Workday’s agentic capabilities at enterprise scale. These insights will help inform Workday product innovation and the approaches Accenture brings to clients.”