What challenges did Accenture face before AI implementation?

The existing on-premises service desk was expensive, rigid, and difficult to scale. Adding capacity required slow contract renegotiations and overprovisioning for surge demand. Integrating new service desk clients with their systems was complex and time-consuming.

Source

Evidence: Medium50/100

Accenture Brazil transforms service desk operations using Amazon Connect Customer with sentiment analysis and multilingual bots

Use case typeContact center modernizationUpdated Jun 13, 2026

Accenture Brazil modernized its service desk for more than 17,000 employees across Latin America by moving from an inflexible, costly on-premises call center to a cloud-based contact center built on AWS. The new environment supports 24/7 service desk operations, multilingual support, self-service automation, and sentiment-based performance insights for operators.

Organization: Accenture
Industry: Professional Services
Location: Brazil
Published: May 2026

Planned next steps

The migration unlocked further plans to expand ML and generative AI use cases.

Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks

Normalized claim

Cost: 50% decrease

AWSMay 13, 2026Case studyInferred claimMedium evidence strength

Accenture Brazil reduced infrastructure costs by 50 percent or more.

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks

Customer: Accenture
Provider: AWS
Maturity: Unknown
Linked source: AWS

No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated

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Use case focus

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1Contact center modernization
2Customer service automation
3Employee service desk

Accenture Brazil implemented Amazon Connect Customer as a cloud-based contact center platform.
The company initially used a hybrid setup that integrated Amazon Connect Customer with existing telephony infrastructure, then completed a full migration once regulatory clearance allowed it.
The solution added multilingual chatbots, automated voice self-service, and sentiment analysis to improve routing, self-service, and operator performance insights.

Technologies

Amazon Connect Customer Amazon Connect sentiment analysis chatbots text to speech

Architecture

Accenture Brazil used a hybrid contact center architecture: Amazon Connect Customer integrated with existing telephony infrastructure during the transition period, followed by a full migration to Amazon Connect Customer after telecom clearance in Brazil. The article also mentions integration with other AWS services for multilingual chatbot and automated voice self-service capabilities, plus sentiment analysis for operator evaluation.

Sources & evidence1

Evidence: Medium50/100Evidence strength