ACN Accenture Plc

   By Allison Prang 
 

Accenture (ACN) said Friday it is buying data consultancy company Clarity Insights, a deal that will grow the company's applied intelligence business, it said.

Clarity Insights, based in Chicago, was founded about a decade ago and provides large businesses with machine learning and artificial intelligence engineering capabilities, Accenture said. Accenture didn't disclose how much the deal cost.

Accenture said almost 350 people will join its applied intelligence business from the deal. That sector of Accenture already has over 20,000 employees.

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December 13, 2019 13:47 ET (18:47 GMT)

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