The world’s largest information technology (IT) services company, Accenture, wrapped up fiscal 2025 with strong fourth-quarter results, on the back of soaring demand for generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) services.
Bookings tied to generative and advanced AI nearly doubled in fiscal 2025 to $5.9 billion, compared with the prior year, while revenue from those projects tripled to $2.7 billion.
The company said these figures exclude traditional AI and data work embedded in its broader services.
“Advanced AI is becoming part of everything we do,” Sweet told investors, adding that more than 550,000 employees have been trained in AI skills. “Our early and decisive decision to invest significantly in Gen AI is clearly paying off as we capture this new area of spend for our clients.”
The AI-led deals further pushed the overall revenues higher.
The Dublin-headquartered company’s revenue rose 7 percent year over year to $17.6 billion in the quarter ended August 31, 2025, and similar year-on-year growth at $69.7 billion.
The company delivered at the top of its guidance range and outpaced its large peers at a time when the industry is facing headwinds.
Accenture now expects full-year revenue growth of 2 percent to 5 percent in local currency.
However, the figure excludes a 1 percent to 1.5 percent impact from its US federal business, the company anticipates a slightly stronger growth range of 3 percent to 6 percent in local currency.
After Donald Trump took over as the President of the US, he appointed entrepreneur Elon Musk to head a department: the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), for "modernising federal technology and software to maximise governmental efficiency and productivity".
The Nasdaq-listed IT services provider's growth slowed recently, hit by US federal procurement.
“The new administration has a clear goal to run the federal government more efficiently. During this process, many new procurement actions have slowed, which is negatively impacting our sales and revenue,” Sweet said during the company’s earnings call on March 20, 2025.
Accenture's share prices were down about a percent after the company posted its quarterly results.
How much did Accenture invest in AI?
After committing a $3 billion multi-year investment in generative AI back in FY23, the firm reported that revenue from advanced AI tripled year on year, while related bookings nearly doubled.
Sweet said Accenture now has 77,000 AI and data professionals, up from 40,000 two years ago, and has delivered more than 6,000 advanced AI projects in the past year alone.
Across fiscal 2025, Accenture booked a record $80.6 billion in new deals, including 129 client contracts worth more than $100 million each.
Growth was broad-based: consulting revenues rose 6 percent, managed services revenues grew 9 percent, and security services surged 16 percent, bolstered by acquisitions such as CyberCX in Australia.
Going forward, management struck a cautious but confident tone.
What did Accenture say on Gen AI?
“The age of AI is still in its early innings,” Sweet said, stressing that enterprise adoption lags behind consumer use due to the complexity of data, systems, and organizational readiness.
Moreover, she pointed to deepening client relationships from modernizing the Bank of England’s payments platform to embedding AI into Ecolab’s lead-to-cash processes, as proof that Accenture is becoming the “reinvention partner of choice.”
For fiscal 2026, Accenture expects continued headcount growth across the U.S. and Europe.
Accenture’s workforce declined by about 7,000 employees in Q4FY25, bringing its total headcount to roughly 770,000.
The company attributed the decrease to strategic workforce optimisation and efficiency measures, even as demand for AI, cloud, and digital services remained strong.
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