KPMG Australia Joins SAP® PartnerEdge® Program With The Aim To Help Clients Further Advance Business Transformation And Accelerate Value
Angela Colantuono, President and Managing Director, SAP ANZ and Pauline Doherty, National SAP Practice Lead, KPMG Australia
March 28, 2024 — Today, KPMG Australia announced that it has joined the SAP® PartnerEdge® program, combining KPMG’s industry-specific, business-centric 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 organisations continuously strive to transform and the demand for cloud-enabled technology solutions steadily increases, KPMG Australia provides business-led, tech-enabled solutions to help organisations modernise 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 organisations 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.
Pauline Doherty, National SAP Practice Lead, KPMG Australia said: “We are excited to be formalising our relationship with SAP via the SAP PartnerEdge program. This relationship reflects the growth in our team and ongoing investment in SAP following our acquisition of Think180 in 2023. KPMG firms are seeing unprecedented demand for our business-led approach to SAP implementations and SAP advisory work, and we are looking forward to working closely with SAP to meet this demand.”
Angela Colantuono, President and Managing Director, SAP ANZ said: “We are pleased to continue to deepen our relationship with KPMG Australia and have them officially join the SAP PartnerEdge program. Joining the program marks an important step in our relationship and underscores our joint desire to deliver success for our customers.”
With more than 6,000 existing SAP-specialised 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 organisations 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.