Google Cloud Signed Accenture to Sell Forward-Deployed Engineers Against AWS and Azure
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Google Cloud expanded its enterprise AI partnership with Accenture, betting that forward-deployed engineers, not model quality, are what clears the enterprise deployment bottleneck. It is an explicit catch-up move in the deployment layer rather than the model layer. The pattern to watch is every major cloud converging on consulting-style delivery as the actual product.