KPMG's Alliances

Appian

Enabling business transformation, process optimization and automation across people, processes and technology

Organizations across industry sectors seek to continuously improve and optimize their business processes, including driving efficiencies in their operational processes, increasing visibility across functional and geographical silos, proactively addressing compliance regulations, integrating with third-party systems and increasing overall business agility.

KPMG has teamed up with Appian to provide Intelligent Automation (IA) and a wide range of integrated service offerings to help advance your digital transformation initiatives. The Appian platform includes an integrated low-code development suite with extensive business process management (BPM) and case management capabilities that enables organizations to accelerate the creation of high-impact business applications that are built in the cloud or on premise, and are inherently mobile enabled. The platform can be used to write new applications from scratch, or to connect and enhance legacy applications already in place, without the need for data migration.

Many of the world’s largest organizations use the Appian platform to improve customer experience, achieve operational excellence, and simplify global risk management and compliance. Improving business performance, turning risk and compliance efforts into opportunities, developing winning strategies and creating value are at the core of what KPMG does for leading organizations everywhere. We help clients integrate people and machines, leveraging disruptive cognitive technologies for competitive advantage. Our teams combine industry knowledge with extensive qualifications in Intelligent Automation (IA) and have worked jointly with Appian to deliver client implementations from strategy to execution. We also have an extensive portfolio of complementary solutions and professional and technical services to help meet your business needs.

Our services focus on meeting the needs of key finance, risk, technology and operations decision makers.

Blackline

Many organizations maintain multiple accounting standards (IFRS, GAAP, statutory), increasing the complexity of financial close, reconciliation, and compliance. Growing regulatory demands further complicate processes across ERPs, entities, and departments.

Our alliance with BlackLine streamlines Record-to-Report (R2R) processes through cloud-based automation. BlackLine enhances financial close management, intercompany accounting, and reconciliation by centralizing and automating workflows within a unified platform that integrates with virtually any ERP system.

Together, KPMG and BlackLine help finance teams:

• Reduce time to close through automation
• Improve accuracy, control, and auditability
• Replace spreadsheets with automated transaction matching
• Manage multiple ledgers and data sources in one platform
• Gain real-time visibility into close status and performance

Common Challenges

• Slow or manual close processes
• Manual journal entries
• Limited visibility into financial processes
• Heavy reliance on spreadsheets
• Multiple ledgers or complex reporting structures
• Uncertainty around reconciliation quality or timeliness

Our Services

KPMG combines finance transformation expertise with certified BlackLine implementation capabilities. We support clients by:

• Redesigning close processes aligned to business objectives
• Implementing the full BlackLine suite
• Building strong business cases with rapid ROI
• Integrating BlackLine seamlessly with existing ERP systems
• Reducing risk and eliminating spreadsheet dependency

Implementations typically require minimal IT involvement, can be completed within months, and often deliver payback within one year.

With KPMG and BlackLine, finance organizations gain automation, visibility, control, and scalable R2R operations that drive strategic value.

Connective

Alter and improve the experience of your customers, by removing all obstacles from any document- or identity-driven business process. Give them a flawless, yet secure, customer journey.​

Connective´s mission is to help every organization, no matter the size or industry, to do business any place and anytime – in a fully digital way. With their Identity Hub, eSignatures and Smart Documents solutions, companies can streamline their digital transactions across borders and transform any paper-based customer journey (e.g. digital onboarding, KYC and contract management) into an unparalleled digital user experience.

Contact us for more information on how Connective and KPMG can help you increase operational efficiency, offer the best-in-class user experience and obtain easy-as-can-be compliance to national and international regulations (e.g. eIDAS, GDPR, UETA and eSIGN Act).

Coupa

Digital solutions to help you achieve procurement transformation

Global businesses of today are under more pressure than ever before to reduce costs, minimize supply chain risk and exercise increased control over organizational spend. Together with Coupa, KPMG can help your organization achieve the procurement transformation required to meet these challenges by fully capitalizing on cloud technologies and automation in order to run your operations more efficiently.

Learn more how KPMG and Coupa can boost your procurement transformation.

Creactives

AI based solutions supporting Procurement and Supply Chain digital transformation

The lineup of companies expanding, going global and merging spans countries and industries. As a result, supply chains have become more and more complex and difficult to manage. Migration to Business Intelligence Systems, ERPs and Procurement Platforms has flooded the market with ambiguous, multilingual and unstructured data. 

Large multinational corporations need to embrace the Artificial Intelligence revolution to unlock the value of relevant unstructured data stored in the ERPs and other backend systems, as operations efficiency claims the highest quality data.

Considering this a prerequisite to success, KPMG has formed a strategic alliance with Creactives, an AI technologies company, to create a single source of truth in structuring data for companies, with clear-cut business benefits. Creactives provides the kind of solutions that give real-time procurement insights and analytics, optimize inventories and procurement processes and render business data usable by overcoming geographical, linguistic, and ERP/PLM/S2P system barriers. Creactives’ AI-powered solutions continuously cleanse and enrich existing data, learn from evolving meanings, and cost-effectively safeguard the creation of new information on an automatic basis.  

Creactives' end-to-end automation of data quality includes outcome categorization and validation on standard taxonomies like UNSPSC or custom ones, with >95% measurable accuracy and a multilingual capability in more than 30 languages. Creactives’ AI empowers end-users to create the right Master data in real-time from the very beginning of any procurement and supply chain process.

The KPMG and Creactives Alliance offers your organization the industry knowledge and experience of KPMG’s multi-disciplinary professionals (Data and AI Lighthouse, Procurement & Supply chain), and the AI edge of Creactives. This combination can help you successfully reshape your enterprise-wide initiatives in Procurement & Supply Chain, allowing you to achieve your full potential on a global level. 

Customs4trade

Customs has climbed the agenda within organizations

Global trade and customs have gained significant importance within organizations due to the increasing complexity and disruption of supply chains. As a result, many companies need guidance to navigate the complex maze of customs to make informed decisions and to obtain authorizations that will be most beneficial to their business.

Given the circumstances, KPMG Belgium and KPMG UK have teamed up with Customs4trade (C4T) to offer an effective combination of a digital solution and expert advice to businesses in need.

The KPMG and C4T alliance provides a seamless customer experience with premier support services, an automated customs solution, and unparalleled customs expertise.

C4T’s goal is to take customs management to the next level, making it a strategic component of growth for businesses. Understanding the complexity and fragmentation in the market, C4T developed a one-of-a-kind software solution called ‘CAS’, a global trade management solution for companies that want to centralize and automate their customs and trade compliance processes.

Throughout the partnership, businesses can rely on the alliance to provide a “safety net” of support and managed services, resulting in full control and peace of mind over all customs business critical processes.

Learn more about how KPMG and C4T can transform your customs experience.

Intapp

Accelerating digital transformation across professional and financial services.

Technology complexity and rising expectations are reshaping professional services, corporate development, investment banking, and private capital markets. Firms must strengthen client relationships, improve operational efficiency, manage risk, and drive growth—while doing more with fewer resources.

Our alliance with Intapp delivers industry-specific, cloud-based solutions that support client engagement, deal management, risk and compliance, collaboration, and operations. By combining Intapp’s SaaS platform with our sector expertise, we help organizations modernize workflows, leverage data and AI, and improve performance.

Our Focus Areas

Professional & Legal Services

We help partner-led firms streamline operations, enhance client service, strengthen risk management, and improve profitability through modern firm management and collaboration solutions.

Corporate Development

We equip deal teams with tools to support data-driven investment decisions, streamline M&A processes, and accelerate value creation.

Deals & Capital Markets

We enhance deal origination, execution, and post-transaction processes using integrated data, industry-specific AI, and cloud-enabled workflows—helping firms stay competitive in dynamic markets.

With FIRM and Intapp, organizations gain scalable, secure, and industry-tailored solutions that enable smarter decisions, stronger relationships, and sustainable growth.

Ivalua

Transform your procurement organization to be digitally driven and efficient

Unlock potential in procurement with KPMG Powered Enterprise.

KPMG Powered Procurement enabled by Ivalua is an outcome-driven approach that helps prepare your business for the future. At its heart is KPMG’s prebuilt target operating model supported by Ivalua’s cloud-based strategic sourcing and procure-to-pay solutions.

Ivalua’s Rapid Deployment packages and industry solutions let you deploy leading practices quickly. The unified suite allows you to digitize the source-to-pay process, across all spend categories, to effectively transform procurement. Unique platform flexibility lets you stay agile, innovate quickly and build a truly competitive procurement advantage. 

KPMG Powered Enterprise | Procurement enabled by Ivalua leverages this technology and provides:

• An intuitive experience for internal users and suppliers that encourages rapid adoption
• Data-driven decision making with reports, active dashboards and queries
• System-driven controls and governance that support a client control framework
• Leading-practice-based functionality and workflows to support strategic sourcing, contract management and guided buying
• A forward-looking architecture built for change
• Industry-specific practices to address your unique needs

The Ivalua platform supports robust integration with enterprise systems and advanced functionality provides the features, add-ons and connectors to enable your digital procurement transformation.

Start your procurement transformation with KPMG Powered Enterprise and Ivalua!

Microsoft

Technology solutions to transform your business and accelerate growth

Rapid innovation makes it hard to choose the right technologies to stay competitive. KPMG combines a business-first approach with Microsoft technologies to deliver solutions that help you achieve your business objectives.

We design, implement, and support solutions using Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM and ERP), Data & Analytics, and Cloud technologies. Dynamics 365 brings finance, operations, sales, service, marketing, and intelligence together on one cloud platform for greater visibility and simpler management.

Through the KPMG Microsoft Alliance, organizations gain better insights, make faster decisions, and adapt quickly to change—while managing risk, compliance, and security.

We serve a wide range of industries, including retail, supply chain and consumer goods, food and drink, higher education, government and defense, professional services, and SMEs.

We also provide Microsoft IT Support and Engineering Services.

Odoo

The unique combination of the Odoo all-in-one platform and the KPMG expertise to enable, secure, and accelerate your business transformation.

The need for business transformation is becoming increasingly critical for every company to compete in their market. Finding the right enterprise resource platform (ERP) that will support your company activity and growth, keeps costs under control, and provides flexibility to adapt to future challenges and opportunities is a critical aspect of transformation journeys.

After the success of the real-time accounting partnership, KPMG and Odoo have decided to expand the existing collaboration to provide services for the implementation of the complete scope of Odoo applications. This new alliance between the Tech Belgian Unicorn and KPMG brings a new opportunity for industries to benefit from an integrated, cutting-edge, and user-friendly technology; while also benefiting from the expertise and experience of KPMG in business transformation journeys.

Odoo is a Belgian ERP with more than 80 applications, covering various business needs: from CRM to accounting, inventory and production, but also website/eCommerce, a HR suite (including a payroll application) and many more. All applications are natively integrated which allows a simplified IT landscape for companies.

This alliance is another opportunity for KPMG to offer an additional option to our clients who are engaging their organization in a business transformation journey.

To enable, secure, and accelerate Odoo based business transformation projects, we leverage our knowledge of the leading industry practices, acquired through the execution of thousands of projects across the entire KPMG network.

OneTrust

Just a few years ago, dedicated privacy teams could typically only be found at large organizations in highly regulated industries, such as banking and healthcare. These teams were often small—or even a team of one—and maintained a singular focus around compliance with federal privacy regulations. Today, privacy teams can be found across every industry, as the organizational privacy mindset  has shifted from a narrow focus on compliance to viewing privacy as a competitive differentiator.

The alliance between KPMG and OneTrust combines professional services and privacy technology to provide your company with a broad strategy and solution to institute governance, develop and implement privacy processes, and support change management as you automate your privacy program.

Out of the box, OneTrust has many customizable features and KPMG has experience tailoring these features to fit clients’ specific needs. We help you define key terms within the context of your enterprise, determine how requirements will differ across business areas, and decide who the core users will be. In collaboration with your privacy team, KPMG can support the creation and management of a thorough data inventory and advise on the development of data subject access request (DSAR) web forms and workflows. During OneTrust’s solution configuration and management, KPMG can develop privacy training materials and assist in cross training resources so your organization is prepared to manage OneTrust in the long term.

Together, we can help develop and implement privacy strategies and practices that enhance organizations customer experiences, operations, regulatory compliance, brand reputation, investor confidence, and more.

Planon

As the demand for smart building technologies grows in combination with the importance of digitalization and sustainability, the scope and complexity that real estate and facility managers are faced with is expanding. On top of that, due to the new ways of working that have been triggered by the pandemic, the workplace needs to be re-invented to the most efficient extent. 

Due to these evolutions, real estate owners should be thinking about their long-term real estate strategy and how their needs evolve with these trends. Furthermore, service providers will be able to collect the output of their services with their clients from these systems. Their combined goal is to optimize business and workplace performance by simplifying business processes and reducing costs during every phase of the real estate lifecycle. 

The KPMG Powered Real Estate, a pre-configured Target Operating Model for Real Estate-related processes, together with Planon’s Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) can be implemented rapidly with maximum added value for your organization. Planon’s technology platform consists of 5 modules that can be implemented separately and tailored to the needs of your organization:

• Real Estate Portfolio Management
• Space & Workplace Management
• Asset & Maintenance Management
• Integrated Services Management
• Sustainability Management

With KPMG Powered Real Estate, supported by Planon’s technology platform, organizations benefit from an enhanced approach improving real estate and facility management by blending the latest technological advancements with the real estate expertise of KPMG consultants. 

SAP

Digital solutions to advance business transformation and accelerate value

Organizations across industries are facing the challenge of transforming their enterprise resource planning systems. To support them in this journey, KPMG in Belgium has partnered with SAP through the SAP® PartnerEdge® program. This collaboration combines KPMG’s deep industry expertise with SAP’s innovative technology, focusing on developing strategies that align technology with business objectives to accelerate digital transformation and achieve sustainable growth.

Our partnership focuses on rapidly advancing business transformation, embedding sustainability into core operations, and leveraging AI to boost efficiency. With tailored solutions and the full backing of the SAP PartnerEdge program, KPMG professionals help clients navigate complex challenges, reduce costs, improve decision-making, to become agile, future-ready enterprises. Together, we provide the agility and innovation needed to meet the demands of today’s dynamic business landscape.

Discover how KPMG and SAP can support your digital transformation journey.

SAS

Helping your organization tapping into the potential of your data & technology platforms

Competing in such a changing business and regulatory context is becoming extremely difficult. On the other end, the potential of technology combined with the high amount of data and analytics technique available are enlarging the horizon of possibilities. 

Multi-disciplinary solutions and teams can help cope with such a world of challenges and opportunities. 

The KPMG’s SAS alliance provides your organization with the industry knowledge and experience of KPMG professionals, working with SAS’s dedicated analytics software platform. This unique combination of skills offers you services in the areas of accounting and regulatory change, as well as risk and financial data management.

Leveraging SAS’s advanced analytics and open modeling platforms, KPMG’s multi-disciplinary teams develop and deliver advanced Risk, Fraud, Compliance and Customer Intelligence Solutions to help clients enable and achieve:

• Technology Modernization
• Business Enablement
• Cost Efficiency
• IT Operation Agility
• Data-driven business transfromation

KPMG and SAS Cloud Acceleration Centers

Our joint Cloud Acceleration Centers can help your company navigate your journey to the cloud–from design and architecture to implementation–more cost-effectively and with increased speed. The centers are highly collaborative, tech-enabled environments that bring together multidisciplinary teams to help you maximize the power of the cloud.

Solution areas

• Procurement Integrity
• Customer Intelligence
• Model Review Management
• Advanced Analytics & AI 
• Data Governance & Data Management
• Data Platform & Architecture Transformation

Sailpoint

Managing identity in the modern enterprise

At a time of increasing speed of technological disruption there are significant challenges with stringent regulatory requirements and ever evolving threats to sensitive assets and information. The cyber capability that holds the key to securing data assets, and reducing the risk of data breaches is effective IAM. Maintaining effective IAM capabilities is crucial in reducing the risk and ensuring controls are in place to deliver predictable outcomes for today’s business. Powered Enterprise | Cyber is designed to achieve faster,  measurable and scalable outcomes for our clients’ IAM programs, enabling them to achieve a quantifiable reduction of cyber security risks and demonstrating auditable and sustainable outcomes to regulators.

The Powered Cyber Identity Management combines SailPoint’s cloud identity platform, Identity Now, with KPMG’s Powered Enterprise methodology to accelerate the delivery of identity management programs and services. It is an outcome-driven transformation solution that enables you to prioritize and deliver IAM capabilities in a way that secures your most critical assets. In addition to being scalable and auditable, it provides an improved end user experience.

Your Identity Management solution

KPMG professionals understand the challenges with increased data complexity, lack of process standardization and ineffective governance of service deployed for identity management programs. The Identity Management offering can help organizations better respond to risk reduction requirements and auditor expectations.

• The Identity Management offering provides a formidable combination of leading practices and processes, proven technology solutions and a next-generation delivery framework.
• The Powered operating model shapes how IAM transformation plays through every layer of the organisation.
• The Powered execution suite is a set of tools and processes that are designed to enable effective delivery of IAM projects, pre-populated with project management, issue and resource management and collaboration tools.

The Powered SailPoint journey provides access to a pre-defined methodology that comprises the Powered Cyber delivery lifecycle.

What is in the box?

With the Identity Management offering, the results are impressive:

• quick outcomes from IAM program implementation—automated delivery of identity management services
• secured and improved user experience for access to critical assets
• auditable IAM controls
• immediate access to leading practices, processes and governance

The Identity Management offering focuses on the IAM transformation of your business with real, long-lasting change. Technology is simply the enabler. Working with you, we can help you navigate confidently into the digital future — creating a roadmap to accelerate the transformation of your identity management within your organisation.

ServiceNow

Digital solutions to modernize and streamline service management

KPMG and ServiceNow help organizations consolidate, automate, and modernize service management processes to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve visibility across the organization.

With KPMG Powered Enterprise enabled by ServiceNow, you benefit from a structured implementation that aligns how employees interact with internal services, reduces risk, and delivers measurable value.

ServiceNow’s Now Platform enables intelligent digital workflows that unlock productivity and simplify how work gets done across the enterprise. Combined with KPMG’s business, industry, and technology expertise, this helps organizations transform service management at scale.

Solution areas

KPMG and ServiceNow use leading technology and practical design to make organizations more connected, efficient, and easier to navigate.

Workday

In a constantly evolving world, adaptability is paramount for businesses. In the essential HR and Finance domains, the capacity to swiftly pivot and foster innovation is crucial for enhancing performance, ensuring a positive employee experience, and unlocking the full potential of individuals.

Businesses leverage upon the agility of platforms with cloud technology to anticipate the ever-changing needs of the business environment and to promptly access insights for informed decision-making.

The partnership between Workday and KPMG brings together a market-leading platform with Workday-certified industry experts in HR, Finance, and Adaptive Planning domains, offering a one-stop shop for your Workday implementation and advisory needs.

Learn more on how KPMG and Workday can boost your HCM and Finance solutions.