Accenture Expands Its Machine Learning and Operations Analytics Capabilities with Acquisition of OPS Rules

Accenture is expanding its machine learning and operations analytics capabilities by acquiring OPS Rules, a boutique analytics consulting company that specializes in the application of data science to create supply chain and operations analytics solutions. When the acquisition is completed, Accenture will add new operations analytics professionals to its team that apply machine learning and optimization techniques to develop new analytics approaches for clients across many industries. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 2012, OPS Rules has offices in Waltham, Massachusetts and Richardson, Texas. OPS Rules is led by David Simchi-Levi, a Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with supply chain and operations analytics expertese. Simchi-Levi and his team will join Accenture Analytics, part of Accenture Digital, and will also be a part of Accenture's Data Science Center of Excellence, a team that focuses on solving client problems through advanced analytics approaches, including machine learning, deep learning, and text analytics.

Serving clients in the consumer packaged goods, high-tech, life sciences, and industrial sectors, OPS Rules provides multi-echelon inventory optimization, custom supply chain analytics, supply chain risk management, and dynamic pricing services to help companies improve operations and business results.

Accenture is developing and delivering new analytics capabilities for its clients. Within the past year, Accenture launched the Accenture Insights Platform, a cloud-based analytics-as-a-service solution designed to help simplify analytics and deliver real-time actionable insights, and the Accenture Cyber Intelligence Platform, a security solution that uses machine learning and streaming analytics to help organizations identify network-born cyber threats. Accenture also acquired Gapso, an advanced analytics services and solutions provider based in Brazil that specialized in solving complex supply chain and logistics challenges.

Completion of the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions.

Keywords: Cloud-Based, Analytics-As-A-Service, Operations Analytics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Text Analytics, Supply Chain Analytics, Streaming Analytics, ARC Advisory Group.