EY and Microsoft Announce Global Initiative to Help Clients Scale Enterprise-wide AI Value Creation and Go Beyond Experimentation – Source

• Building on the success of the EY-Microsoft alliance, the organizations are collectively investing more than $1 billion in a new initiative to accelerate AI transformation in enterprises
• An integrated team of EY practitioners and Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineers will help clients deploy AI solutions in core business functions at scale
• As Client Zero, EY was one of the first companies to adopt Microsoft 365 E7: The Frontier Suite and is now scaling Copilot to its more than 400,000 employees

LONDON – May 21, 2026 – The EY organization and Microsoft Corp. announced on Thursday a significant evolution of their alliance, investing more than $1 billion over five years and launching a new initiative to help companies scale AI and deliver measurable, enterprise-wide results at scale. The initiative brings together Microsoft’s Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) and EY industry experts to accelerate AI adoption across change management delivery models.