Accenture Strengthens Collaboration with Anthropic in Japan to Accelerate AI-Centric Enterprise Transformation
Accenture is strengthening its strategic partnership with Anthropic globally, and is now enhancing its AI-centric enterprise transformation support system in Japan. Starting May 1, 2026, the 'Accenture Anthropic Business Group' in Japan will officially launch, providing comprehensive AI transformation services to domestic clients.
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TOKYO, May 11, 2026 – Accenture is strengthening its support system in Japan for AI-centric enterprise transformation, building on its global strategic partnership with Anthropic, PBC (hereinafter, Anthropic). Starting May 1, 2026, the 'Accenture Anthropic Business Group' in Japan will officially launch its operations, offering services to Japanese clients ranging from designing and executing company-wide AI transformation, refreshing software development lifecycles utilizing Claude, powered by Anthropic, modernizing core systems, to transforming cybersecurity.
In December 2025, Accenture and Anthropic announced the expansion of their multi-year global strategic partnership. They have jointly developed the world's largest team of Claude specialists, training approximately 30,000 Accenture professionals on Anthropic's generative AI 'Claude'. Concurrently, under a shared commitment to 'responsible AI,' significant progress has been made in developing solutions for regulated industries such as finance, life sciences, healthcare, and public sectors. Furthermore, in March 2026, the two companies announced 'Cyber.AI,' a new solution for cybersecurity operations based on Claude.
Building on these global achievements, Accenture will leverage its deep industry and business process knowledge, combined with its track record of executing company-wide business transformations, to strengthen its support system for Japanese companies. This system will enable them to confidently adopt and operate generative AI, leading to business transformation and growth. The Business Group will integrate globally cultivated insights with local practices, incorporating Claude into real-world enterprise operations. This approach considers the unique IT environments and industry characteristics of Japanese companies, especially addressing the growing cybersecurity needs and enterprise requirements such as governance and compliance, thereby fostering sustainable value creation.
Key Support Areas Provided in Japan:
**Company-wide AI Transformation Design and Execution**
Accenture designs and executes company-wide transformations that go beyond merely improving efficiency in individual tasks with Claude, encompassing strategy, business processes, organization, talent, culture, and technology. Starting with strategic dialogues with leadership, Accenture promotes the visualization and redesign of operations driven by AI, extending to implementation utilizing Claude Code and Claude Cowork. This support is not limited to tool provision but comprehensively assists in design, implementation, and operation, ensuring alignment with business processes, existing systems, and organizational structures, and accompanies clients through change management for sustained adoption. This elevates generative AI from a 'usable technology' to a 'foundation for enterprise transformation,' enabling rapid and continuous achievement of results.
**Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Refresh through AI-Driven Development**
By integrating AI into all stages of software development—from requirements definition, design, development, testing, release, to operation—Accenture dramatically enhances adaptability to change. It supports the transformation into engineering organizations capable of responding to market changes and new regulatory requirements in a fraction of the time. Furthermore, to ensure the reliable execution and operation of these transformations, Accenture secures safety and governance for company-wide utilization. Claude Code is designed to make security and safety-conscious decisions and incorporates a design philosophy (Constitutional AI) that makes it difficult to generate high-risk code. In addition to this, by establishing controls across the entire development process, including pre-definition of specifications and tests, multi-stage quality checks by AI, and automatic recording of reasons and history of changes, Accenture enables a system where AI-driven development can be safely operated in production continuously.
**Modernization and Optimization of Aging Core Legacy Systems**
For many Japanese companies, the modernization of complex core legacy systems is an urgent management issue. By combining MAJALIS, Accenture's core system transformation tool, with Claude, modernization is accelerated. MAJALIS converts existing assets into standard Java, while Claude handles code analysis, specification visualization, and test generation, thereby enhancing the comprehensibility, maintainability, and extensibility after migration. This achieves not merely a legacy refresh but an optimization anticipating the evolution to next-generation systems based on generative AI utilization.
**Comprehensive Cybersecurity Transformation to Respond to Rapid AI Evolution**
As new cyber threats emerge with the rapid evolution of AI, companies are required to undergo a cybersecurity transformation that spans from strategy formulation to operation. Accenture has over 20 years of experience in this field.
In December 2025, Accenture and Anthropic announced the expansion of their multi-year global strategic partnership. They have jointly developed the world's largest team of Claude specialists, training approximately 30,000 Accenture professionals on Anthropic's generative AI 'Claude'. Concurrently, under a shared commitment to 'responsible AI,' significant progress has been made in developing solutions for regulated industries such as finance, life sciences, healthcare, and public sectors. Furthermore, in March 2026, the two companies announced 'Cyber.AI,' a new solution for cybersecurity operations based on Claude.
Building on these global achievements, Accenture will leverage its deep industry and business process knowledge, combined with its track record of executing company-wide business transformations, to strengthen its support system for Japanese companies. This system will enable them to confidently adopt and operate generative AI, leading to business transformation and growth. The Business Group will integrate globally cultivated insights with local practices, incorporating Claude into real-world enterprise operations. This approach considers the unique IT environments and industry characteristics of Japanese companies, especially addressing the growing cybersecurity needs and enterprise requirements such as governance and compliance, thereby fostering sustainable value creation.
Key Support Areas Provided in Japan:
**Company-wide AI Transformation Design and Execution**
Accenture designs and executes company-wide transformations that go beyond merely improving efficiency in individual tasks with Claude, encompassing strategy, business processes, organization, talent, culture, and technology. Starting with strategic dialogues with leadership, Accenture promotes the visualization and redesign of operations driven by AI, extending to implementation utilizing Claude Code and Claude Cowork. This support is not limited to tool provision but comprehensively assists in design, implementation, and operation, ensuring alignment with business processes, existing systems, and organizational structures, and accompanies clients through change management for sustained adoption. This elevates generative AI from a 'usable technology' to a 'foundation for enterprise transformation,' enabling rapid and continuous achievement of results.
**Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Refresh through AI-Driven Development**
By integrating AI into all stages of software development—from requirements definition, design, development, testing, release, to operation—Accenture dramatically enhances adaptability to change. It supports the transformation into engineering organizations capable of responding to market changes and new regulatory requirements in a fraction of the time. Furthermore, to ensure the reliable execution and operation of these transformations, Accenture secures safety and governance for company-wide utilization. Claude Code is designed to make security and safety-conscious decisions and incorporates a design philosophy (Constitutional AI) that makes it difficult to generate high-risk code. In addition to this, by establishing controls across the entire development process, including pre-definition of specifications and tests, multi-stage quality checks by AI, and automatic recording of reasons and history of changes, Accenture enables a system where AI-driven development can be safely operated in production continuously.
**Modernization and Optimization of Aging Core Legacy Systems**
For many Japanese companies, the modernization of complex core legacy systems is an urgent management issue. By combining MAJALIS, Accenture's core system transformation tool, with Claude, modernization is accelerated. MAJALIS converts existing assets into standard Java, while Claude handles code analysis, specification visualization, and test generation, thereby enhancing the comprehensibility, maintainability, and extensibility after migration. This achieves not merely a legacy refresh but an optimization anticipating the evolution to next-generation systems based on generative AI utilization.
**Comprehensive Cybersecurity Transformation to Respond to Rapid AI Evolution**
As new cyber threats emerge with the rapid evolution of AI, companies are required to undergo a cybersecurity transformation that spans from strategy formulation to operation. Accenture has over 20 years of experience in this field.