KPMG LLP joins SAP® PartnerEdge® program to help clients further advance business transformation and accelerate value

New York, NY — March 27, 2024 — Today, KPMG LLP announced that it has joined the SAP^® PartnerEdge^® program, combining KPMG’s industry-focused, business-led approach with the power of SAP’s market-leading technology to help clients fast-track their digital transformation journeys with the aim of becoming future-ready businesses.

As organizations continuously strive to transform and the demand for cloud-enabled technology solutions steadily increases, KPMG LLP provides business-led, tech-enabled solutions to help organizations modernize and drive future success. The KPMG digital transformation suite of solutions and services provides access to leading practice operating models pre-configured on SAP, along with human-led leading practice implementation. KPMG professionals are helping clients accelerate business transformation, enable generative AI adoption, and enhance transparency on ESG to help organizations become agile, data-driven, and resilient businesses.

The SAP PartnerEdge program enables members to leverage the power of the SAP ecosystem and gain access to a wide range of enablement tools and support to facilitate building quality, disruptive applications focused on specific business needs – quickly and cost-effectively.

Will Williams, KPMG U.S. Vice Chair of Operations and SAP Lead Executive Sponsor:

“KPMG and SAP share a vision to advance the adoption of transformative technology and help our mutual clients embrace cloud-enabled solutions. Through our collaboration and KPMG’s market-leading Powered Enterprise framework, we will work together to innovate and deliver business-led, industry-focused SAP solutions, leveraging cutting-edge cloud, data and artificial intelligence technologies to drive measurable value for our clients.”

Lloyd Adams, President, SAP North America:

“We’re excited to welcome KPMG LLP to the SAP PartnerEdge ecosystem. Through this collaboration, we bring reliable business advice, industry expertise, and our cloud first mindset. KPMG LLP has been a trusted business advisor to SAP for 20 years, and we look forward to delivering innovative solutions that bring the best of our technologies together.”

Carl Carande, Vice Chair of Advisory, KPMG LLP:

“Swift and efficient business-centric solutions are an imperative for dynamic, modern organizations intent on achieving growth and success. With our history as trusted advisors, we have a rich understanding of the strategic need for rapid and efficient change. By taking a multi-disciplinary, business-centered approach to SAP technology transformation, we can help enable businesses to meet the future with confidence.”

With more than 6,000 existing SAP-specialized consultants across the KPMG global network of member firms, KPMG professionals are helping clients to increase capabilities, drive sustainable growth, and open up broader cloud-enabled opportunities.

• Accelerating business transformation – The KPMG digital transformation suite, called ‘Connected. Powered. Trusted.’, includes KPMG Powered Enterprise, an outcome-driven, functional transformation solution which aims to drive rapid transformation and efficient time-to-value for clients. KPMG Powered Enterprise enabled by SAP is rooted in KPMG professionals’ extensive knowledge of the SAP technology landscape and experience managing S/4HANA implementations for clients. Powered Enterprise takes a holistic approach which considers the various aspects and impacts of functional transformation to help organizations become more responsive, resilient, and competitive.
• Enabling increased transparency on ESG – By combining KPMG professionals’ business-first approach and sustainability tracking tools running on SAP software, KPMG specialists are helping clients embed sustainability data into core business processes to generate actions from insight into ESG data. This includes helping to improve forecasting and planning, as well as data management, which aims to increase efficiencies with ESG reporting and improve balanced decision making.
• Tapping into the revolutionary power of SAP Business AI – KPMG professionals are helping to build AI into clients’ core business processes — connecting finance, supply chain, procurement, sales, marketing, human resources, and IT. KPMG specialists combine experience gained from many functional transformations and AI initiatives with in-depth knowledge and experience in SAP technologies.

KPMG’s cloud-first strategy, industry-specific investments, and integrated multi-disciplinary capabilities, combined with in-depth experience in achieving measurable results with SAP cloud solutions, enables KPMG specialists to offer clients improved speed to value and help transform modern digital businesses.

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