KPMG and Microsoft Partner to Enhance Professional Services with AI

Two of the largest organizations in the SAP ecosystem, IBM and KPMG recently unveiled a new and deeper alliance aimed to help energy and utility companies maximize the value of their SAP systems. Between IBM’s decades of solutions experience and the technical knowledge that KPMG has in business transformation, companies can expect significant value from…

The KPMG intelligent analytics platform harnesses the power of business process mining and advanced analytics to analyze and map system transaction flows. Enabling organizations to identify and prevent risks before they occur and detect whether transactions are passing through intended controls, highlighting how to resolve issues in real time.

SAP S/4HANA has created a stir in the data analytics space, representing a significant shift in SAP’s business suite platform and offering noteworthy advancements in real-time analytics capabilities. As with any new technology, customers have questions about how an SAP S/4HANA implementation will affect them. This article explores three common questions that data analytics professionals…

Mergers and acquisitions are on the rise, and with them comes the pressing need to integrate IT applications and platforms between two previously separate organizations. This integration can be quite difficult, especially when the acquired company comes with its own set of SAP and non-SAP systems. Yet if you can get all systems working efficiently…

The three letters GRC have become firmly fixed in the vocabulary of top management levels and on the agenda of CFOs. Although compliance, for example, with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the resultant requirements of an internal control system were previously considered mostly in isolation, today companies are taking an integrated GRC approach: This is evident…...…

FinancialsAn SAP executive answers a few questions about internal auditing and risk assessment in today’s enterprise business environment. Key Concept Emerging risks, according to Institute of Internal Auditors President Richard Chambers, are “newly developing risks that cannot yet be fully assessed but that could, in the near future, affect the viability of our organizations’ strategies…...…

At the same time that Sanofi was working on COVID-19 vaccines, it was also working with Accenture and KPMG to migrate from SAP ERP Central Component System to SAP S/4HANA and consolidate and optimize its IT environment. This was an ambitious undertaking considering the unique economic environment, the firm’s multinational reach, and the heavily regulated…

The global tax landscape has become increasingly complex, as governments around the world are changing the ways that they monitor companies and ensure compliance. SAP S/4HANA-enabled transformation has far-reaching impacts on tax departments, including Direct Tax, Indirect Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Trade & Customs. To explore the implications on tax planning, tax technology, and innovation,…

Technological innovation enables digital transformation. In his Enterprise Data and Analytics report, SAPinsider’s Kumar Singh explains that the commoditization of technology continuously lowers barriers to entry across industries, enabling smaller, nimble, and agile companies to disrupt larger and more established businesses. The report surveyed 291 members of the SAPinsider community. The purpose of the survey…