Expanded alliance brings complementary
skillsets to strengthen client outcomes
NEW
YORK and ARMONK,
N.Y., Oct. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IBM
(NYSE: IBM) and KPMG LLP announced they are expanding their
alliance to help enable business transformations for clients
implementing SAP S/4HANA® across the energy and
utilities industry. Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP)
projects run the potential risk of failing without the right
technology in place and the right business expertise to fully
integrate it. IBM Consulting and KPMG together are bringing a
breadth of consulting, operations, tax, risk and finance experience
to the ERP implementation process to help energy and utilities
companies automate and manage core business processes for optimal
performance.
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IBM Consulting is a global leader in SAP transformations,
delivering cohesive collaborative solutions based on in-depth
industry experience, AI, and hybrid multi cloud deployment. IBM has
well-established technology and deep experience within a broad
partner ecosystem, including a 50-year history partnering with SAP.
KPMG brings business-led, SAP-enabled functional transformation
experience in more than 25 countries while leveraging deep energy
and utility industry knowledge to deliver business value.
"As companies across industries accelerate the shift to cloud
and contemplate the move to SAP S/4HANA, they will need the support
from trusted experts to help achieve success in any transformation
project," said Bill Piotrowski,
Americas SAP Leader for IBM Consulting. "We're excited to partner
with KPMG to provide Energy & Utilities clients access to
industry insights that will help them capitalize on their SAP
investment supported by experience in supporting numerous SAP
S/4HANA transformations worldwide."
KPMG and IBM Consulting bring complementary skillsets across SAP
technology implementation, cross-sector business processes,
regulatory, risk, finance, and tax considerations, and operational
issues. The combination of the firms' skills and experience can
strengthen outcomes for the benefit of clients, and successful
enterprise resource planning transformation across the energy and
utilities sector.
"Identifying the potential value created by financial
considerations up front in the planning of an ERP implementation
can significantly improve the likelihood of success," said
Brad Stansberry, Energy &
Chemical Industry Advisory Leader at KPMG. "Working with IBM
Consulting and the business and technical expertise they bring will
expand our ability to help our joint clients accelerate
productivity and unlock growth opportunities."
Together, KPMG and IBM have already delivered a comprehensive
business transformation program at Liberty Utilities, a leading
provider of local utility management, service and support across
the United States and Canada. The four-year program builds on
Liberty's "Customer First" project to revolutionize the company's
Customer, Finance, Asset Management, Field Services, and Supply
Chain Operations.
"IBM Consulting has been our trusted partner, and we continue
our collaboration to accelerate our remarkable transformation
journey," said Jody Allison, Vice
President, Transformation at Liberty Utilities. "IBM's unique
relationship with KPMG brings valued finance and advisory expertise
which will help extend our 'Customer First' platform into every
aspect of our organization, allowing us to deliver to our
customer's expectations, enable our employees to serve, and
facilitate growth as we will be able to easily integrate acquired
businesses and assets in the future."
IBM Consulting helps accelerate business transformation for our
clients through hybrid cloud and AI technologies, leveraging our
open ecosystem of partners. With deep industry and business
expertise spanning strategy, experience design, technology, and
operations, we have become a trusted partner to the world's most
innovative and valuable companies, helping them modernize and
secure their most complex systems. Our 160,000 consultants embrace
an open way of working and apply our proven co-creation method, IBM
Garage, to scale ideas into outcomes. As the only major global
systems integrator inside a technology company, we don't just
advise -- we invent and build what's next together with our
clients. Find out more at IBM.com/consulting.
Statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are
subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals
and objectives only.
About IBM
IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and
consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries
capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business
processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their
industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in
critical infrastructure areas such as financial services,
telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud
platform and Red Hat OpenShift to effect their digital
transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's
breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing,
industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and
flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's
long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility,
inclusivity and service.
Visit www.ibm.com for more information.
About KPMG LLP
KPMG LLP is the U.S. firm of the KPMG global organization of
independent professional services firms providing audit, tax and
advisory services. The KPMG global organization operates in 144
countries and territories and has more than 236,000 people working
in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally
distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. KPMG
International Limited is a private English company limited by
guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do
not provide services to clients.
KPMG is widely recognized for being a great place to work and
build a career. Our people share a sense of purpose in the work we
do, and a strong commitment to community service, inclusion and
diversity, and eradicating childhood illiteracy. Learn more at
www.kpmg.com/us.
Media Contact
Michelle
Mattelson
IBM External Relations
morrison@us.ibm.com
Elizabeth Lynch
Associate Director , Corporate Communications, KPMG US
elizabethlynch@KPMG.com
201-505-6316
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