Global analyst firm positions Akkodis as an Enterprise Innovator in agentic AI services
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND / ACCESS Newswire / May 14, 2026 / Akkodis, a global leader in digital engineering consulting and part of the Adecco Group, has been recognized in the HFS Horizons: Agentic Services, 2026 report, which evaluated 36 of the world's leading service providers on their ability to operationalize agentic AI in real‑world enterprise environments.
The report positions Akkodis as an Enterprise Innovator, citing its strengths in delivering agentic services grounded in strong data foundations and governed execution. HFS Research notes Akkodis' ability to support enterprise‑level transformation, helping organizations scale agentic AI across core workflows while maintaining governance, traceability and operational control, with demonstrated production deployments and measurable business outcomes.
From agentic AI pilots to enterprise production
Agentic AI represents a shift from AI‑assisted productivity to autonomous, goal‑driven execution embedded into end‑to‑end workflows. While adoption is accelerating, many enterprises continue to struggle to scale beyond pilots due to challenges related to data readiness, governance, trust and accountability. The HFS Horizons: Agentic Services, 2026 report examines which service providers are closing this gap by moving agentic AI from experimentation into enterprise production.
In its assessment, HFS Research highlights Akkodis' focus on governance, data foundations and execution at scale, emphasizing several strengths:
Governed agentic services with measurable impact - Akkodis delivers agentic services that embed governed AI agents into enterprise workflows, improving employee engagement, productivity, and business performance with measurable P&L impact.
Platform‑anchored delivery and adoption at scale - AI-Core, Akkodis' industrial AI and agent orchestration platform, together with a productized data architecture, enable context‑aware agent execution across enterprise environments, supporting production‑scale use cases backed by global AI labs and structured adoption programs.
Data‑led architecture with enterprise governance - Akkodis' data‑led agentic architecture is operationalized through a structured, multi‑phase data pipeline with built‑in governance gates, run‑time approvals, auditability, and ROI‑led use‑case prioritization.
Services‑as‑Software progression - Akkodis is shifting toward Services‑as‑Software, citing autonomous, reusable agentic components that reduce execution time, increase throughput and accelerate delivery without scaling delivery effort.
Demonstrated outcomes cited by HFS Research
HFS Research highlights production‑level outcomes delivered through Akkodis' agentic services, underscoring the real‑world impact of governed agentic execution. In the public sector, the report cites Akkodis' work with an Australian education authority where specialized AI agents cut lesson‑plan creation time by 50-60%, reducing administrative effort and enabling educators to focus on higher‑value work. In manufacturing, HFS points to deployments where Akkodis' agentic intelligence helped a global client reduce take‑back orders by 20-30%, cut scrap by 30-40%, and achieve greater than 90% forecasting accuracy, driving meaningful gains in efficiency, quality and decision‑making at scale.
"We're proud to be recognized by HFS Research as an Enterprise Innovator in agentic services," said Jo Debecker, President & CEO of Akkodis. "As organizations move from AI experimentation to real execution, the challenge isn't ambition - it's delivering agentic AI that can run reliably in production.
At Akkodis, we focus on engineering‑led, governed execution that helps enterprises scale agentic AI responsibly across core workflows with trust, accountability and measurable impact."
"Akkodis brings a distinctive engineering-led approach to agentic services, combining deep technical expertise with industry knowledge to embed intelligent agents into complex product and operational environments, enabling enterprises to move from experimentation to scalable, real-world AI impact." said David Cushman, Executive Research Leader, HFS.
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