Before it wrapped up its Cloud Next conference today, Google LLC signed a deal with consultancy firm Accenture Plc that will see team up to create “data insight solutions” for their enterprise customers.

The new Accenture Google Cloud Business Group, made up of specialists from both companies, will “develop intelligent solutions leveraging data-driven insights.” The idea is to help clients build superior customer experiences and accelerate their digital transformations, Accenture said.

The new products and services will combine Accenture’s industry knowledge with Google’s cloud technology, and be available for customers in Europe, the U.S. and Japan. “We’re making a significant commitment to our clients and investment with Google Cloud to provide intelligent solutions that enterprises need to solve today’s greatest business challenges and become the new leaders in digital,” Gene Reznik, Accenture’s senior managing drector of Ecosystems & Ventures, said in a blog post Wednesday.

Accenture said the plan is to target companies in the consumer packaged goods, healthcare and retail industries first of all. Some of the ideas Accenture has in mind include building new business services powered by Google’s artificial intelligence and machine learning platforms, providing an easier way to migrate legacy workloads to Google’s cloud, and making SAP SE’s software-as-a-service products easier to manage on Google’s infrastructure.

The companies said they’re also looking to combine data from Google’s marketing platform with other sources of enterprise data, with a view to improving customer insights and scaling G Suite across corporate networks.

That announcement is somewhat timely, as Google has just added a host of new AI and ML-powered capabilities to G Suite, the productivity tools platform that rivals Microsoft Corp.’s Office 365. The new capabilities include things such as smart replies in chat scenarios, voice commands in Hangouts and grammar suggestions in Google Docs.

This week Google also launched its new Cloud Services Platform for enterprise customers that want to combine Google’s cloud infrastructure with their on-premises workloads.

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