Accenture, Workday Launch Forward Deployed Engineering Program

04:36 PM EDT, 10/13/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Accenture (ACN) and Workday (WDAY) said late Tuesday they have launched a joint forward deployed engineering program to help organizations reinvent workflows using artificial intelligence. Under the FDE program, both companies will work with clients' HR and finance teams to bring agentic capabilities into production, helping organizations deploy Workday agents faster and realise returns on investment sooner. Accenture engineers will work with Workday's product and technology teams so they can develop new agentic capabilities on the Workday platform, the companies said.