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Accenture + Databricks Business Group Launches March 17 — 25,000 Certified Professionals, Agent Bricks, Lakebase, Genie
March 17, 2026: Accenture and Databricks formally launched the Accenture Databricks Business Group backed by 25,000+ Databricks-certified professionals — the industry's largest certified pool — targeting the shift from AI experimentation to production deployment. The group focuses on three Databricks innovations: Lakebase (serverless Postgres for AI workloads), Genie (natural language queries against enterprise data), and Agent Bricks (enterprise-data-grounded agents). Accenture CEO Julie Sweet framed it as 'accelerating the shift from experimentation to production, safely scaling AI' — positioning professional services firms as the critical deployment bottleneck the Databricks 327% multi-agent adoption surge exposed.
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