Accenture Named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Technology and Business Consulting Services

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 15, 2026--

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner, Inc. “ Magic Quadrant for Digital Technology and Business Consulting Services ” report. This recognition is particularly significant as Accenture believes the report’s scope aligns closely with its end-to-end capabilities and pioneering Reinvention Services growth model.

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Accenture highlighted its deep expertise, ability to execute, and comprehensive vision in helping clients navigate complex digital transformations in its submission. Accenture’s distinct approach—uniting strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X services into a single, integrated Reinvention Services unit—is designed to deliver transformation at scale.

Accenture’s digital technology and business consulting work spans all industries, reinventing core and functional value chains through our consulting capabilities in business strategy, data and AI, talent, process, and experience. Much of this work is sponsored by top CXOs seeking to transform their organizations and become reinventors.

Accenture also possesses robust capabilities in Digital Technology and Cloud Enablement Consulting, powered by strategic investments in data and artificial intelligence (AI). Our significant commitment to Generative AI (Gen AI) and the development of proprietary AI-native assets, such as GrowthOS for accelerating revenue-generating opportunities and Spend Analyzer for productivity improvements, further showcase our leading-edge innovation and technology adoption.

“Today, our clients need even more from us. In every boardroom and every industry, they are not just facing a single challenge, they are facing everything at once—unprecedented pace of technological change, economic volatility, geopolitical complexity, and radical shifts in customer behavior. Companies today require a strategic partner capable of orchestrating complex transformations from vision to value,” said Manish Sharma, Chief Strategy and Services Officer at Accenture. “Our Reinvention Services, powered by unique capabilities in advanced AI, deep industry consulting expertise and leading ecosystem partnerships, empower our clients to solve their most pressing strategic challenges and innovate at speed. We believe this Gartner recognition underscores our commitment to delivering differentiated strategy and consulting services that create lasting, measurable impact.”

“This position as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Technology and Business Consulting Services is a pivotal moment to us, in our view affirming the strategic imperative for integrated consulting that drives enterprise-wide reinvention,” said Muqsit Ashraf, Group Chief Executive-Strategy at Accenture. "We feel it reflects Accenture's unified, client-first approach led by the combined strength of our deep industry and functional experience and world-class AI-enabled assets and platforms. Add to this the leading services we deliver alongside a robust ecosystem of technology partners and Accenture is well positioned to help clients not just adapt but redefine their futures and unlock unprecedented value through continuous innovation."

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 784,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at accenture.com.

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CAIRO (AP) — Iranians began to regain internet access on Wednesday after authorities ended a monthslong shutdown. But users said service was slow and spotty in some areas, with apps like YouTube and Instagram heavily restricted, as they were before the cutoff began during nationwide protests in January.

Authorities justified the outage as a military imperative after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. Their decision to lift some restrictions this week came as negotiators appeared to be closing in on a more permanent truce. But many Iranians feared access could be cut off again at a moment's notice.

Internet tracking company Netblocks said Iran’s connectivity, which measures the ability of devices to connect to the internet, is at around 86% of capacity from before the cutoff. Internet analysis firm Kentik said internet traffic, which measures the amount of data transferred and is a good illustration of usage, was at around 40%.

Amir Rashidi, an Iranian cybersecurity analyst, said there were still widespread disruptions. “It's too early to say the shutdown is over,” he wrote on X.

Iran’s roughly 90 million people have been cut off from the internet for most of 2026, one of the world’s longest and strictest national shutdowns. Young people with online careers saw their incomes evaporate. Job losses and the closure of online businesses added to the war's steep economic costs.

The cutoff made it difficult for Iranian families to communicate through months of unrest and war. At some points, phone lines were also cut off, though they were later restored.

A woman living in Tehran said that for months she was barely able to speak to her sons living abroad. She couldn't believe authorities had restored access, saying she had assumed they would find some justification to prolong the outage.

A taxi driver said service was restored but weak. He expressed hope it would improve so he could use messaging apps with family and friends. Both spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.

Prices spiked during the shutdown, with residents in Tehran at times paying around $7.50 per gigabyte. Prices are back down to around $2.25 for 30 gigabytes, roughly where they were before the protests.

Even then, Iran tightly controlled access to popular social media sites, leading many to rely on virtual private networks, or VPNs. The cost of those workarounds soared during the shutdown, making them unaffordable for many as the economy was battered.

Businesses have started reappearing online, announcing their return with posts on sites like Instagram and Telegram.

A gamer and tech influencer in the central city of Isfahan said the shutdown had caused him to lose a lot of his audience on YouTube and Instagram, where he had spent years building up a large following.

“All my views and interactions are way down. I’ve been erased from the algorithm,” he said in a voice note sent by WhatsApp, adding that his internet connection was still slower than before the shutdown.

“The situation is such that many content producers have had their income reduced to zero, have moved on to other jobs, or have been forced to sell their equipment to survive,” he said. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.

Iranian authorities first shut down the internet in January during mass anti-government protests that were eventually stamped out in a violent crackdown. Thousands of people were killed and tens of thousands detained.

That cutoff was just starting to ease when the government imposed a complete internet blackout after the start of the war, when U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Iran's supreme leader and other top officials.

The government faced criticism for the prolonged shutdown, which caused even more harm to an economy devastated by inflation, strikes on key industries and a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports.

The internet cutoff cost an estimated $30-40 million daily, with indirect losses likely twice that much, a member of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Afshin Kolahi, told a local newspaper last month. About 10 million people have jobs that depend on internet connectivity, according to Communications Minister Sattar Hashemi.

Iranians still had access to a national net, but that has a far narrower reach, and users complained of poor service and heavy censorship. Senior government officials are given SIM cards granting them access to the global internet. Under pressure, the government expanded access to the SIM cards to some professions during the shutdown.

A woman checks her smartphone while sitting on a bench along a sidewalk in northern Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)