Accenture (ACN +0.20%) stock is climbing higher in Tuesday's trading despite a bearish backdrop for the broader market. The company's share price was up 2.2% as of 1:15 p.m. ET, and had been up as much as 3.4% earlier in the session. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.80%) was down 0.8%, and the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC +1.63%) was down 1.5%.
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Accenture is gaining ground today thanks to fresh news about its expanding partnership with Nvidia (NVDA +4.30%). Accenture profiled its new software suite built on technologies from the artificial intelligence (AI) leader, and other team-ups between the two companies have been highlighted at this year's CES trade show.
Accenture, Nvidia are cooking up some exciting projects
In conjunction with the beginning of the CES trade show in Las Vegas and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's keynote address yesterday, Accenture announced the launch of its AI Refinery for Industry software suite. The service includes 12 industry-tailored agent solutions designed to help businesses and institutions build and deploy AI agents with specialized capabilities.
Accenture AI Refinery is build on Nvidia's AI Enterprise software and makes use of industry-specialized services, including Nvidia NeMo, Nvidia Nim, and Nvidia AI Blueprints. Through this combination of tools, customers will be able to cut the time that it takes to create and deploy AI agents and improve the overall quality of results.
Nvidia also published a post on its blog yesterday outlining the company's partnership with Accenture and KION Group to optimize supply chains for retail, consumer packaged goods, parcel services, and other categories. Huang discussed his company's Mega Omniverse Blueprint for developing, testing, and optimizing physical AI and robot fleets at scale during his CES keynote, and Accenture and KION were named as key early adopters of the platform.
What's next for Accenture?
Accenture appears to be on the verge of seizing massive opportunities in warehousing and industrial automation. As Nvidia's Huang said recently: "Future warehouses will function like massive autonomous robots, orchestrating fleets of robots within them. By integrating Omniverse and Mega into their solutions, KION and Accenture can dramatically accelerate the development of industrial AI and autonomy for the world's distribution and logistics ecosystem."
Despite existing business strengths and emerging AI opportunities, Accenture stock is up just 7% over the last year -- a performance that lags far behind the 26% level gain for the S&P 500 across the stretch. For investors looking to benefit from the rise of industrial automation, Accenture stock looks like a strong candidate right now.
