IT-Enabled Transformation
Our objective is to help you achieve increased alignment of technology and business strategy through earlier and reliable delivery of business benefits; reduced risk of major project failure and delays; aligning the business functions and IT to work effectively together; and gaining competitive advantage, from improved financial and management reporting to enabling fast incisive commercial decisions. Our capabilities include advising on:
- IT-Enabled Business Programs – Helping to ensure your investments in IT programs realize the target benefits by designing and managing the programs and delivery of the technology solutions.
- Reporting and Decision Support – Helping to ensure you gain the insight to allow you to make effective and timely decisions when managing your business.
- IT Strategy and Organization – Helping to ensure your strategic use of IT and your delivery model support your business strategy effectively and appropriately.
Outsourcing Advisory and Shared Services
As organizations transform to compete in the global marketplace, executing an effective shared services and outsourcing strategy has become an imperative. More of our clients are requesting that their advisers help them establish a transformative global delivery structure that is flexible and creates ongoing value and competitive advantage. KPMG has a team of advisers with deep functional knowledge in:
- Finance & Accounting
- HR
- IT
- Procurement
- Other critical business processes.
Business Systems Advisory
KPMG’s Business Systems Advisory Services combine deep business, finance, and accounting experience with extensive knowledge of technical and functional business systems (including but not limited to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, such as SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics), functional business processes, and application controls and regulatory mandates to strengthen our client’s resilience to system-specific and business process-specific risks. Our approach addresses the following:
- Business systems implementation and upgrade lifecycle support services
- Enterprise application strategy, planning, and governance
- Business requirements identification
- Vendor selection assistance for software and service providers
- Business process design and transformation
- Conversion and interface quality assurance, including data quality assessment of legacy systems and data integrity assurance in business systems
- Implementation risk identification and management
- Controls design, integration, and assessment
- Segregation of duties, security and identity management design, and implementation
- Pre-implementation and readiness reviews and post-implementation reviews
- System stabilization, monitoring, and improvement
- Project management and quality assurance.
Business Intelligence
We can help your business get the most value from your Business Intelligence (BI) investment, bringing confidence that you are getting the insights you need to make informed decisions and ultimately improve the performance of your business.
Our approach addresses the following:
- Strategic alignment – By understanding your strategic objectives and decision-making processes, we can help you deliver the right information to support your strategy.
- Governance – By identifying who owns, uses, and produces information, we can help you create consistent and accurate performance reporting.
- Performance management & reporting – By integrating planning, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting, we can help you focus on the information that matters to you.
- Integrated information management – By truly managing information as an asset, we can remove duplication and help you achieve accuracy, consistency, and integrity of your data.
- Business intelligence platform – By understanding how you use information, we can help you use the right tool set to improve cost-focused decision making
- Infrastructure – We can help you implement a secure, flexible, scalable, and cost-effective information infrastructure.
IT Cost Optimization: Getting More Out of Your IT Function
We can help companies implement significant and sustainable cost reductions, either driving savings to the bottom line or redeploying the savings in under-invested activities to add value by:
- Taking on the role of “internal investor,” objectively scrutinizing where the IT organization is bloated or starved of cash and identifying appropriate actions
- Embedding a cost management culture across the business and creating incentives for eliminating waste
- Simplifying and streamlining processes to help reduce costs and free up time for value-adding activities
- Identifying performance gaps and working with management to deliver lasting change.
- Our multi-disciplinary teams can help ensure an appropriate balance of technical, business, and industry knowledge to shape the best outcome for our clients
- We focus on the factors that drive success by targeting and delivering business results rather than purely technical outcomes
- Our experienced teams have the insight to help you avoid common pitfalls, reduce risks, and increase the success of your IT investments
- We are only interested in the best outcome for our clients and are not compromised by vested interest or a desire to deliver a particular technology.