Accenture Acquires Pragsis Bidoop, Boosting AI Capabilities, Big Data Portfolio and Talent

L to R : Juan Pedro Moreno, Country Managing Director for Spain, Portugal and Israel, Accenture and Pedro Agudo, CEO and Co-founder, Pragsis Bidoop.

Accenture has acquired Pragsis Bidoop, a Spanish company with strong expertise in big data, AI and advanced analytics. Pragsis Bidoop, headquartered in Madrid with additional offices in Barcelona and the U.K., will add more than 200 employees with Deep Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data engineering experience, along with its portfolio of end-to-end solutions, to Accenture’s Applied Intelligence business. Integrating Pragsis Bidoop’s capabilities will further enhance how Accenture Applied Intelligence serves the European and Latin American markets by helping enterprise clients scale their deployments of AI, analytics and automation to make data-driven decisions.

Founded in 2004, Pragsis Bidoop stands out in the Spanish Big Data and AI market, with a diversified client base of Ibex-35 companies in Spain and multinational corporations with a presence in Mexico, Brazil and other Latin America markets. The company specializes in service provisioning for corporations in a range of industries, from banking and insurance to retail, energy, railway, public sector and pharma. Pragsis Bidoop also delivers innovative data solutions for what Accenture calls Industry X.0, the digital reinvention of industry. These include Big Data and AI solutions for digital twins (digital models of a physical objects, systems or processes), Machine Learning to optimize manufacturing processes, and advanced predictive models to reduce, for example, supply chain forecasting errors, lost sales and maintenance costs.