Accenture to acquire Udacity to create AI-driven learning platform
Accenture announcement Today that he would be acquire THE learning platform Udacity as part of A effort has build A learning platform concentrate on THE growth interest In AI. While THE business doesn't specify how a lot he paid For Audacity, he Also announcement A $1 billion investment In building A technology learning platform It is call LearnVantage.
While he could Also offer more general technology training, THE business do clear that he East particularly interested In offer training has get workers up has speed on AI. "THE increase of generative AI represented A of THE most transformer changes In how work gets do And East conduct A growth need For companies has form And improve skills people In cloud, data And AI as they build their digital heart And reinvent their companies," Kishore Durg, global lead of Accenture LearnVantage said In A declaration.
As For Audacity, which was based In 2011, he gave THE usual types of declarations A business makes When he gets acquired by A a lot bigger organization as Accenture. That East, he believes that he can reach more people And help them acquire SKILLS as part of THE bigger entity. That go without saying, but there had has been rumors earlier This year that THE business was In talks with Indian educational technology business Upgrade with A ask price of $80 million. Apparently that agreement fell through And Accenture finished up purchase them instead.
Regardless, if THE rumor $80 million price label was correct, that was A abrupt drop In value For A business that raised almost $300 million, by Pitch book, And tree A $1 billion assessment In 2015.
By usual, THE agreement East subject has regulatory goodbye And antitrust monitoring.
Accenture announcement Today that he would be acquire THE learning platform Udacity as part of A effort has build A learning platform concentrate on THE growth interest In AI. While THE business doesn't specify how a lot he paid For Audacity, he Also announcement A $1 billion investment In building A technology learning platform It is call LearnVantage.
While he could Also offer more general technology training, THE business do clear that he East particularly interested In offer training has get workers up has speed on AI. "THE increase of generative AI represented A of THE most transformer changes In how work gets do And East conduct A growth need For companies has form And improve skills people In cloud, data And AI as they build their digital heart And reinvent their companies," Kishore Durg, global lead of Accenture LearnVantage said In A declaration.
As For Audacity, which was based In 2011, he gave THE usual types of declarations A business makes When he gets acquired by A a lot bigger organization as Accenture. That East, he believes that he can reach more people And help them acquire SKILLS as part of THE bigger entity. That go without saying, but there had has been rumors earlier This year that THE business was In talks with Indian educational technology business Upgrade with A ask price of $80 million. Apparently that agreement fell through And Accenture finished up purchase them instead.
Regardless, if THE rumor $80 million price label was correct, that was A abrupt drop In value For A business that raised almost $300 million, by Pitch book, And tree A $1 billion assessment In 2015.
By usual, THE agreement East subject has regulatory goodbye And antitrust monitoring.
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