Data management’s purview is expanding beyond data ingestion, data lakes and master data, with a goal to connect to customers, react to market changes and to use data strategically and tactically in real time to stay resilient and relevant amid rapid change.
The Forrester Wave™: Data Management Service Providers, Q4 2021 report has recognised KPMG as a “Leader”, following Forrester’s comprehensive evaluation of 12 top firms “that matter most” among today’s most significant service providers. KPMG member firms scored highly in data governance, training and literacy, data integration, community and business impact.
“Organisations seeking a collaborator that has a strong methodology to connect data to process and decision flows will find that KPMG is exceptional in this approach,” the Forrester report states. “KPMG professionals strive to ensure that outcomes and culture come first in a true data relationship.”
Report highlights
The report states that client references praise KPMG professionals’ translation of business expertise to projects and ability to generate actionable guidance, all while demonstrating delivery excellence.
It notes that KPMG firms have brought forward from the audit practice expertise in data protection to deliver superior data security and privacy, along with a progressive and effective data-integration capability. KPMG’s “human-centric and business approach,” as well as expansion of our Lighthouse network, “has helped clients realise (not just claim) data as a strategic asset”.
The report adds that our use-case approach to data integration, along with our data security and privacy capabilities, “further accelerates and substantiates the cohesion between technology and business outcomes”.