June 20 (Reuters) - IT services provider Accenture ( ACN )

projected annual revenue growth largely above estimates

on Thursday, as growing adoption of artificial intelligence

offsets sluggish growth in enterprise spending.

It expects annual revenue to grow 1.5% to 2.5%, compared

with analysts' expectations of 1.6%, according to LSEG data. It

had earlier expected growth between 1% and 3%.

(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika

Syamnath)