Cloud Offerings

Cloud Strategy

A precisely outlined cloud strategy will document the benefits expected from your cloud vision and deliver on the agreed outcomes while driving cloud adoption across the various functions in an organisation.

KPMG's Cloud Strategy solution is designed to help your business leverage the benefits of cloud computing, such as increased agility, scalability, and cost savings, while mitigating risks and ensuring compliance. We prioritise speed and innovation by leveraging leading insights and our cutting-edge tailored accelerators and practices to  define your target operating model along with clear Cloud economics and establish industry standard Cloud Architecture and Design. Think "cloud-first," automated deployments, AI integrations, and data-driven decisions.

KPMG can work with you to develop and execute a cloud strategy that aligns with your business objectives. Our Cloud strategy provides a comprehensive approach to cloud adoption, covering areas such as cloud assessment, cloud migration, cloud security, and cloud managed services.

Our team of Cloud experts work closely with you to assess your current landscape and understand your Cloud vision to build strong foundations that will enable your business to take advantage of the speed and agility that cloud offers, helping you adapt and improve constantly to stay ahead in the digital world.

GRC and Cyber

One of the key principles that should underpin any cloud solution is security. Strategic business objectives and associated risk should form the core of a robust cloud security strategy. Our Cloud security experts will help you to weave security and compliance into the very fabric of your IT ecosystem, from your legacy systems out to every new cloud deployment.

At KPMG our emerging technology risk team (ETR), can help you to navigating the dynamic world of technology change and transformation. Whether you're embarking on a cloud adoption journey, exploring the potential of AI, or seeking validation for your existing emerging technology solution, we're here to help you at every stage. Our expertise lies in ensuring that you effectively manage your the risks and have the right controls in place for your business. With ETR, you gain access to a wealth of experience from helping clients like you navigate the complexities of technology risk management. We'll assess your current state, guide you through transformations, and provide tailored solutions for cloud and AI implementations.

We can help your organisation to:

• Reducing the risk to your business: ETR's risk and control assessments can help you to identify and mitigate technology risks, reducing the likelihood of disruptions or losses.
• Improving business efficiency: ETR's governance frameworks and solutions can help you to streamline your technology operations and improve efficiency.
• Accelerating the transformation of your business: ETR's transformation support can help you to accelerate your organisation’s safe and secure adoption of new technologies, giving you a competitive advantage.
• Providing you with access to industry experts in this field: ETR's team of experienced professionals can provide you with valuable insights and guidance on technology risk management and transformation.

DevOps/DevSecOps as a service

DevOps and DevSecOps as a service from KPMG will assist in driving cultural and operation change in your agile environment whilst suppling engineering ‘horsepower’ to deliver laser focused business value. Our approach is designed to ensure that your operation delivers timely business value, confidently, in a clear and transparent manner.

The so called ‘Evergreen’ approach is at the core of our proven methodology. This approach means that when we leave your organisation the methodology is embedded at all levels.

Teams will be aligned with strategic intent set by senior leadership and our highly skilled people will build out strategies to align product management with strategic intent that ensures the delivery of timely business value.

Our approach deals effectively with dependencies and increment planning. Our approach to coherency of working combined with dashboard design will ensure that dependencies and blockers are rapidly surfaced and understood to allow them to be actioned – this is one of the biggest challenges of any large-scale agile operation. As our approach is absorbed and embedded across your organisation our customers have reported that conversations related to activity and delivery become subjective and focused on reality rather than subjective and having to rely on personal assurances that things are good and products will be delivered. This in turn releases senior leadership to more effectively contribute to getting the right, business focused results.

We have a proven and tested methodology that drives our definition of high performance to the heart of DevOps and DevSecOps teams and the management of those teams. Collaborative, self-supporting, self-learning, self-healing empowered teams with purpose will be the result. Governance, embedded and shifted far to the left that results more business focused activity and reduces the cost of rework – particularly in a DevSecOps environment. Which will provide your organisation with:

• Clarity of purpose, shared and agreed both internally and externally and aligned to organisational business intent.
• Business value understood and agreed at engineer level and used to guide all activity.
• Squads focused on activities that matter and so results are delivered.
• Reduction in non-productive time consumed.
• Faster path to production.
• Increase in confidence in organisational ability.

Cloud Landing Zones

Cloud Landing Zones (CLZ) are the foundations of your cloud environment and underpin all of your cloud initiatives, be it workload migrations, application development or data transformation.

Enterprise clients are keen to leverage the capabilities and scalability of the cloud, however as they approach their application migration journey to the cloud, many are running into speedbumps as they grapple with complex design and configuration considerations, leading to a search of proven best practices for cloud adoption.

Our cloud landing zone solutions deliver an automated but tailored approach to your organisation, with cost and billing reporting configured as standard for full integration into organisation’s financial operations processes. Each element can be customised to  meet your demands, ensuring full flexibility and scalability of the landing zone deployment.

By applying our accelerators, such as KPMG Engine for Azure, we can deliver benefits to our clients in the form of:

• Reduced Lead Time through best in class landing zone deployments with minimal planning and setup time, enabling organisations to begin deployment to the cloud in the shortest time possible.
• Rapid Time to Market through deployments of applications to a cloud landing zone means leveraging the benefits of cloud service, flexibility and durability to allow organisations to experiment and deliver services to customers. Doing this within the deployed landing zone means transitioning from proof of concept to live is a simple process with no migrations or re-platforming required.
• Controlled KPMG’s CLZ solutions provide mechanisms to control what can be deployed to organisation’s environments allowing full architectural control of what can be deployed into which cloud environment in accordance with the required standards.
• Security is at the heart of KPMG’s CLZ solutions ensuring industry best practice controls and configurations are deployed by default.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

KPMG’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is our transformative methodology to build and operate on cloud using a software engineering approach, while solving the most important challenge that organisations face today, that is, to provide sustainable service and optimum feature development velocity while maintaining higher system reliability and resiliency for distributed and complex systems at scale.

Our site reliability engineering (SRE) building and operating framework ensures that workloads are migrated as-is to cloud and that cloud-native workloads are developed and released with high velocity while successfully maintaining the service availability and reliability of IT systems and platforms. This is done through a combination of process, culture and technology transformation to achieve operational excellence. 

Our SRE framework encompasses an in-built feedback loop to the team through quantitative service metrics such as service level objectives and error budget. This enables SRE and developers to calibrate and focus on optimal continuous improvement execution in the environment.

Applying KPMG’s SRE frameworks and accelerators will provided key benefits, including:

• Improved reliability: identifying and eliminating single points of failure, implementing redundancy, and monitoring the systems for potential problems.
• Increased availability: increase the availability of your IT systems by reducing downtime and ensuring that the systems are always up and running.
• Enhanced performance: optimizing the systems for speed, efficiency, and scalability.
• Reduced costs: preventing downtime, reducing the need for manual maintenance.
• Improved customer experience: ensuring that they are always available and performing at their best.

Application Modernisation (KAMM)

One of the key aspects of any organizations cloud transformation journey is to ensure that business critical applications hosted on legacy systems are modernized and migrated to the cloud. KPMG’s Application Modernisation and Migration (KAMM), is a scalable and global service designed to accelerate business-wide transformation through using an amalgamation of assets, tools and automation. KAMM liberates your organisation from the constraints of legacy systems and empowers you to modernise your operations as you journey towards the cloud. By leveraging KAMM, you can update your existing applications to a cloud-first model.

The KAMM framework is an end to end solution covering 4 key areas:

• Application assessment: KPMG helps organizations assess their current application estate and produce a comprehensive modernisation and migration plan.
• Application modernization: KPMG helps organizations modernize their applications to make them more efficient, scalable, and secure.
• Application migration: KPMG helps organizations migrate their applications to the cloud or other modern platforms.
• Post-migration support: KPMG provides post-migration support to help organizations ensure that their applications are running smoothly and that they are meeting their business needs.

KPMG’s solution covers the entire application modernisation and migration process, from assessment to post-migration support. This ensures that you have a single point of contact for all your needs.

Cloud Native App Development

As your cloud journey progresses, it is important that your application estate is optimised so that you can take full advantage of the power that cloud computing offers. KPMG's Cloud Native Application team specializes in helping organizations build and run applications that are optimized for the cloud environment. By leveraging cloud-native technologies and methodologies, we are able to create applications that can take full advantage of the benefits of cloud computing.

At KPMG, we can help you build and run cloud-native applications that are scalable, resilient, and highly available, by leveraging microservices architecture and containerization. Such approach offers easy deployment and management in the cloud, taking advantage of various cloud-computing benefits such as on-demand resource allocation and elastic scalability. Further, our focus on automation and monitoring tools ensures that applications are always running optimally and to facilitate rapid, continuous deployment. Through utilising a cloud-native approach, you will reap various benefits, such as:

• Increased fault-tolerance and availability.
• Stepping up capacity with demand.
• Using the most cost-effective compute resource.
• Escaping the ‘vertical scaling’ performance bottleneck.
• Faster time-to-market.

Cloud Financial Optimisation (FinOps)

In today's dynamic business landscape, the cloud has become the backbone of technological advancements, driving innovation and agility. However, as enterprises increasingly migrate to the cloud, it's crucial to ensure that the benefits of this transformation are maximized while keeping costs in check.

Many organisations pay at least a 30% premium on their cloud spend to meet their business objectives, often facing complexities in workload migrations and ongoing cloud management. The challenge lies in managing the dynamic nature of cloud services, avoiding wasteful spending, and gaining visibility into the detail and source of cloud costs whilst identifying and acting on cost levers.

At KPMG, we offer a holistic approach to cloud cost management, helping enterprises realise the true potential of the cloud. Through our comprehensive assessment of your current infrastructure and applications, we will provide recommendations to sustainably manage and optimise expenditure, whilst maintaining performance. Through this approach, you can expect to yield benefits, such as:

• Observability and Forecasting - Achieve complete visibility into cloud cost allocation and attribution, aligned with resource utilization.
• Rapid Cost Reduction and Sustainable Savings - KPMG will deliver the necessary tools and processes to continuously identify, allocate, and track the implementation of optimization opportunities, ensuring the sustainability of achieved savings.
• Cost Optimised Architecture - Collaborate with your application and product teams to assess your cloud workloads against the cost optimization pillars of cloud well architected frameworks, identifying suitable modernisation strategies to deliver cost and sustainability efficiencies.
• Organizational Alignment and Training - establish appropriate processes and accountabilities, ensuring that optimisation processes and accountabilities are understood and embedded in ways of working, promoting an ongoing culture of cost optimisation.

Cloud Target Operating Model and Centre of Excellence

Cloud technology has revolutionised the way organisations operate, enabling them to deliver services faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost. However, many organisations are still struggling to optimise their technology operating model to align with the speed and agility of technology service providers, therefore missing out on the full potential of Cloud.

At KPMG, we believe that a Cloud-based operating model is essential for organisations to remain competitive in today’s fast-paced business environment. Our approach to Cloud operating model design is centred on delivering business value, and underpinned by our real-world experience in helping clients on their journey to realise the full value of Cloud technology.

The right Cloud operating model helps your organisation to

• Be more agile and responsive to changing business needs.
• Improve efficiency by reducing time and effort required to manage IT infrastructure.
• Optimise spend on technology, energy, and maintenance.

KPMG's Target Operating Model (TOM) solution helps clients to design and implement an operating model that is aligned with their business strategy and objectives. The TOM solution focuses on optimizing processes, structures, and systems to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and agility, specifically across six dimensions, ranging from Technology & Tooling to People & Culture.

Regardless of where your organisation finds itself on the Cloud journey, KPMG’s Cloud Centre of Excellence (CoE) is available to provide comprehensive support and guidance. Beyond Operating Model Design, the CoE offers a range of services, including Cloud Strategy development, migration planning and execution, security and compliance, cost optimisation, as well as training and development.

In working with KPMG, you benefit from our breadth of expertise and knowledge, meaning we take a holistic approach to your transformation journey that considers your entire organisation, not just the Cloud. We understand that Cloud is just one aspect of your overall business strategy, and work closely with you to ensure that your Cloud transformation aligns with your broader business objectives. With our proven methodologies, you can be confident that your Cloud journey is in safe hands.

Modern Hosting

For many of our clients with large-scale and complex technology environments, the diversity of their workloads and the related hosting requirements, mean that there is no single hosting solution that can meet all their needs.  In the drive to transform and modernise, public cloud services have been valuable options, but many organisations often need to support a hybrid mix of environments, both in the cloud and on-premise, either as they transform or as a long term strategic state. 

Our Modern Hosting practice delivers the skills and tools to meet the challenges of effectively designing, building and managing these complex hybrid environments.

Modern Hosting has six core disciplines to support clients in managing this complexity:

• Develop Private Cloud Platforms: These are increasingly a valid of many organisation’s hosting strategy, they are no longer just a stepping stone to public cloud.
• Drive Platform Modernisation: We develop the critical roadmaps and deploy tools and the techniques that can drive out platform value through modernisation and sustain workloads into the future.
• Manage Hybrid Operations: Hybrid estates need a hybrid approach to technology operations and a single operating model, with an integrated view of events / MI and a common controls framework to enable integrated service management.
• Promote Sustainable Technology: Our client’s recognise that they must take their environmental responsibilities seriously.  Technology has a significant role, with greener construction for data centres and strategies for efficient technology utility usage being critical to managing IT’s impact.
• Build Technology Resilience: Modern technology landscapes and having the capability to identify weaknesses and drive improvement in resilience and recovery is key, especially for highly regulated or customer experience critical organisations.
• Plan Strategic Infrastructure: The combinations of technology assets and hosting options that deliver business services can be highly complex. Understanding what types are suitable, the benefits, and how to best exploit them is fundamental to a solid strategy.

Our Modern Hosting disciplines provide technology leaders with the skills and tools to manage and modernise and meet the ever increasing demand for agility in business change, cost effectiveness and risk control, while at the same time, managing the reality of complex hybrid environments.