Seamlessly integrated technology that is smoothly integrated, provides insights and enhances resilience

       

      The technology landscape is swiftly changing, complicating successful transformation efforts. Every day, a multitude of applications, Software as a Service (SaaS), on-premise solutions, AI features, and advancements in technology are emerging. Meanwhile, customers and stakeholders are increasingly demanding excellent digital experiences, cyber security threats are escalating, and regulations are evolving.

      To thrive, organizations must develop a robust digital transformation strategy to guide their journey. Central to this strategy should be technology that is seamlessly integrated, offering insights and promoting resilience, ultimately providing a competitive edge.

      KPMG in India works with clients to determine how their industry sector, business functions and digital capabilities need to change. We see that every sector has a real opportunity to engineer a different future through accelerating their digital journey, unlocking new opportunities for growth, agility, innovation and resilience.

      For all the complexity, there is an optimum shape for your organization to deliver sustainable growth and outcomes that matter.

      KPMG ranks #1 for overall quality of work in Technology, Media & Telecoms consulting by clients


      KPMG received top ranking across multiple categories in TMT consulting in Perceptions of Consulting Technology, Media & Telecoms 2025 study published by Source.

      Supporting organisations with integrated cyber security solutions that strengthen resilience, trust, and business continuity

      Supporting organisations with integrated cyber risk, compliance, and assurance solutions for sustainable growth

      Helping ensure impactful intelligent experiences through a combination of cloud, data, and AI to help you achieve your business objectives

      Working with clients to determine how their industry, business functions and digital capabilities can change for the better

      Our awards and recognition

      KPMG won 2026 Core Business Partner of the Year by ServiceNow for helping clients streamline workflow and unlock strategic value.

      Automation Anywhere Pinnacle Partner of the year

      KPMG in India recognised at Imagine India 2025 celebrating our leadership and commitment to drive innovation leveraging Agentic Automation and acknowledges our continued collaboration to deliver impactful, future-ready solutions for our clients.

      Automation Anywhere Pinnacle Partner of the year

      Nozomi APJ Global System Integrator Award of the Year 2025

      KPMG in India won the 2025 Nozomi APJ Global System Integrator Award of the Year for excellence in Operational Technology (OT) and cybersecurity across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region.

       

      Nozomi APJ Global System Integrator Award of the Year 2025

      Success stories and experiences of our valued clients

      Tripling conversion rates for one of India’s leading paints companies

      Achieved significant EBITDA improvement through digital initiatives and established a pipeline of additional measures to drive a total improvement of approximately 15 per cent

      How KPMG helped Happilo move their digital transformation onto the right track with a SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementation

      How a KPMG-enabled SAP technology implementation improved business processes and boosted customer satisfaction
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      Driving growth with Technology trends

      Hemant Jhajhria

      National Head of Consulting

      KPMG in India

      India's fintech story is not just about scale. It is about creating a blueprint for the future of digital innovation.

      Built on the foundation of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), India’s fintech ecosystem has evolved into one of the world’s most tested and scalable models. With UPI powering billions of users and transactions, we have proven infrastructure, adoption at scale, and a customer base ready for innovation. As we build the AI layer on this foundation and unlock new use cases, the next decade of fintech growth in India could be truly transformative.

      Akhilesh Tuteja

      Partner & National Leader, Clients and Markets

      KPMG in India

      The next era of AI won't belong to those running the most experiments. It will belong to those who build trust into execution, ensuring technology amplifies human judgment where it matters most. 

      Purushothaman KG

      National AI Leader, and Head – Technology Transformation

      KPMG in India

      India's data centre industry is moving into a new phase of accelerated growth driven by AI-led workloads, cloud adoption, and evolving data localisation requirements. As infrastructure demand increases, the market will require integrated execution models that can combine engineering capabilities, AI readiness, regulatory understanding, and operational accountability to support large-scale and future-ready digital infrastructure development.

      Raghavan Viswanathan

      Partner, Deal Advisory

      KPMG in India

      The rapid evolution of digital consumption, alongside regulatory push for data localisation, is creating sustained demand for domestic data centre capacity. At the same time, the emergence of AI-centric infrastructure is reshaping requirements across power, cooling and compute layers. These structural shifts present a significant opportunity for India to build a resilient, scalable and globally competitive data centre ecosystem.

      Rohan Rao

      Partner, Deal Advisory

      KPMG in India

      India’s data centre sector is at an inflection point where demand, capital and technology are converging to drive large-scale infrastructure development. The transition toward AI-led workloads is fundamentally changing the design, scale and economics of data centres across the country.

      With strong domestic demand and favourable cost structures, India is well positioned to become a key node in the global digital infrastructure ecosystem.

      Hemant Jhajhria

      National Head of Consulting

      KPMG in India

      India's fintech story over the past decade has been one of building trust at population scale. As financial institutions gain access to increasingly rich streams of transaction, identity and behavioural data, AI is emerging as the intelligence layer that transform information into insight, insight into decisions and decisions into action.

      Looking ahead, India's opportunity extends beyond the adoption of AI technologies to building a financial ecosystem that is more inclusive, resilient and globally competitive.

      Akhilesh Tuteja

      Partner & National Leader, Clients and Markets

      KPMG in India

      India has built a robust digital finance ecosystem powered by Digital public infrastructure, widespread digital adoption, progressive regulatory frameworks and a thriving culture of innovation. As this ecosystem continues to evolve, AI is emerging as the next transformative force, enabling smarter decisions, adaptive experiences and more autonomous financial operations.

      India's next phase of fintech leadership is likely to be defined not by digital infrastructure alone, but by how effectively intelligence is embedded across the ecosystem.

      Kamesh Srinivasan

      Partner, Digital Lighthouse
      KPMG in India

      Value realisation is rapidly emerging as the defining capability in AI transformation. While building AI solutions is becoming increasingly accessible, demonstrating measurable business impact remains the greater challenge.

      The organisations that will lead in the AI era will not necessarily be those deploying the most models, but those that can clearly connect AI investments to business outcomes, financial value, and sustained adoption.

      As GCCs evolve from cost centers to value centers and take on broader ownership of products, platforms, engineering, and AI mandates, the focus is shifting decisively from execution to impact. In that context, value realization is no longer a reporting exercise; it is fast becoming a strategic discipline at the heart of Digital, Data, and AI transformation.

      Purushothaman KG

      National AI Leader, and Head – Technology Transformation

      KPMG in India

      Agentic AI is shifting the enterprise conversation from experimentation to execution. As autonomous agents become part of business workflows, success will depend on governance, trusted data, human oversight, and deployment-focused talent that can turn AI ambition into measurable outcomes at scale.

      Purushothaman KG

      National AI Leader, and Head – Technology Transformation

      KPMG in India

      India’s infrastructure constraints are no longer a limiting factor. By combining state-backed digital public infrastructure with strong private-sector innovation, India is forging a distinct AI pathway. Across the sovereign stack, the focus is on expanding compute capacity, building domain-specific models, and leveraging semiconductor expertise. More importantly, India is transforming solutions in healthcare, finance, and agriculture into scalable innovations and exportable models for global adoption.

      Prerit Binjrajka

      Partner

      KPMG in India

      Organisations with strong automation foundations adapt faster to change. Autonomous agents act across multiple enterprise systems simultaneously - a single bad decision can cascade across finance, procurement, HR, and customer data in seconds; the blast radius is far larger than a traditional software bug.

      Clients who invested in test automation as a programme asset - not just a project expense - consistently recover faster from change: upgrades, regulatory shifts, and new AI feature rollouts all move faster.

      Purushothaman KG

      National AI Leader, and Head – Technology Transformation

      KPMG in India

      As AI becomes embedded in everyday work, the real differentiator will be the ability to combine strong leadership accountability with clear visibility into AI costs and outcomes. Organisations that treat AI as a business transformation agenda - not just a technology initiative - will be best positioned to unlock sustainable value and measurable returns.

      Purushothaman KG

      National AI Leader, and Head – Technology Transformation

      KPMG in India

      India currently has over 150 data centres with about 1.5 GW operational capacity as of early 2026, including emerging AI-focussed facilities driven by GPU deployments. The capacity to surpass 1.8 GW by the end of 2026 and reach over 8 GW by 2030 is fuelled by a shift toward AI-ready infrastructure encompassing hyperscale, specialised hardware like GPUs, software platforms, and edge computing.

      Standard data centres currently yield Ebitda margins of 20-30%, while AI-optimised centres, with premium pricing for high-performance compute, are expected to achieve margins in excess of 50% due to elevated demand and utilisation.

      S Sathish

      Partner and National Sector Leader – Industrial Manufacturing

      KPMG in India

      Industrial manufacturing organisations are increasingly wanting to leverage technology as a force multiplier aligned with business strategy to unlock significant value. In India, government incentives on digital infrastructure, coupled with rising adoption of AI, are creating a strong foundation for transformation.

      Organisations that invest in robust data foundations, scalable platforms, and workforce upskilling, while strengthening cybersecurity and ecosystem partnerships, will be best positioned to drive sustainable growth and resilience in a rapidly evolving global landscape.

      Purushothaman KG

      National AI Leader, and Head – Technology Transformation

      KPMG in India

      The narrative that infrastructure constraints will hold India back is fundamentally outdated. Through a unique blend of state-enabled public digital rails and aggressive private innovation, India is crafting a third pathway in global AI.

      We are optimising at every single layer of the sovereign stack - scaling targeted compute pools, engineering domain-specific models tailored to localised institutional complexity, and leveraging our legacy in semiconductor talent to dominate chip design and hardware packaging. We aren't just navigating around constraints; we are productising our solutions, turning localised public service breakthroughs in healthcare, finance, and agriculture into scalable digital and physical exports for the rest of the world.

      Sony Anthony

      Partner and Head of Department – Cyber Defence and Incident Response

      KPMG in India

      As the DPDP Act begins to take effect, organisations are starting to look beyond compliance and focus more deeply on accountability, governance, and trust in how data is managed.

      The line between vulnerability discovery and weaponisation has collapsed exponentially. If the security posture still relies on manual triage and weekly patch cycles, you're treating an AI-speed problem with a human-speed solution.

      The metric for success is no longer how fast we find exposure, it's how rapidly we translate that intelligence into actionable, risk-based resilience

      Rupak Nagarajan

      Partner, Cyber Strategy & Govn
      KPMG in India

      The DPDP Act marks a fundamental shift in how organisations think about handling personal data. The conversation is moving beyond compliance towards building trust, strengthening governance and responsible innovation.

      For businesses navigating an increasingly digital ecosystem, privacy is becoming a strategic differentiator that provides competitive advantage.

      Neeraj Bansal

      Partner and Head India Global

      KPMG in India

      India’s real estate sector is moving from experience-driven execution to precision-led delivery, powered by a new generation of digital capabilities across the lifecycle. Technologies such as BIM, digital twins, AI-led analytics, IoT-enabled asset monitoring and 3D printing are unlocking more insight-driven capabilities.

      As decisions become increasingly data-led and cloud-enabled, projects are becoming more predictable, efficient and responsive. Technology today is shaping not just how we build but how we think, plan and deliver for the future.

      Ayush Gupta

      Partner

      KPMG in India

      Real estate players in India are adopting AI use cases that enable precision-led execution, with tangible gains in demand forecasting, sharper sales conversions and related areas. The edge will be with those who use AI at scale and can measure its benefit in the P&L across the entire development lifecycle.

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      India’s fintech story is not just about scale. It is about creating a blueprint for the future of digital innovation. Built on the foundation of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), India’s fintech ecosystem has evolved into one of the world’s most tested and scalable models

      By combining digital public infrastructure with private-sector innovation, India is forging a distinct AI path. India is transforming solutions in healthcare, finance, and agriculture into scalable innovations and exportable models for global adoption

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      Explore how industry leaders are integrating AI to enhance efficiency, innovation, and sustainability across India’s industrial landscape. 

      India’s 6G infrastructure is taking shape with AI at its core. AI adoption is expanding rapidly across sectors, while industrial manufacturing is emerging as the next frontier for intelligent automation.

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