As part of a continuing effort to widen the scope of their services, KPMG and DexMach, who have recently been named partner of the year 2020 by Microsoft, have announced the start of a strategic alliance. While their areas of expertise are different, their joint market offerings will allow customers to choose from a wide-ranging service package.

Transforming business services to leverage cloud capabilities is on nearly every CEO’s agenda, while Microsoft Azure and Office 365 have already been deployed across many major organizations. That is why, KPMG’s and DexMach’s latest joint transformation solution is built primarily on the Microsoft cloud, offering a large portfolio of embedded solutions with two major benefits for organizations: cost control and innovation opportunities.

While it is tempting to limit a move to the cloud to just some IT services to reduce cost, doing so can result in a “lift-and-shift” approach that ultimately limits the cost effectiveness of the cloud for an IT organization.

Because trying to maintain a cloud solution with traditional management and security measures has a negative impact on cost control, meaning that true value can only be obtained by adapting IT infrastructure to new ways of IT management and operations.

Realizing the full benefit of cloud investment requires the local IT team – or integrating partner – to have deep knowledge of cloud services, both in terms of cloud mentality and having the right tools and skills to control their cloud environment.

Through the KPMG-DexMach alliance, the companies are more equipped than ever to provide this holistic approach, with KPMG providing the transformation know-how to embed a cloud mentality throughout an organization, while DexMach offers control over the cloud environment through insights, compliancy measurement and automation.

In other words, the move to the cloud is standardized, operations become predictable, and new insights become available that help to visualize overall cost, immediately access updated strategic roadmaps, pinpoint efficiency gains and even make better use of Microsoft cloud subscriptions already purchased.

Companies stay in control and their IT organization becomes embedded into business processes, rather than simply being considered an operational cost.

Describing the advantages of the collaboration, Anthony Van de Ven said: “The expectations that companies have today from a Big Four player like KPMG is that we deploy the services we design; making us a single point of contact for strategic advice, structured deployment and operational control. This alliance is a big step in building a thorough solution framework for our clients in the Belgian market, helping them to stay in control of the strategic and tactical facets during their cloud transformation projects.”

Meanwhile, customer expectations, technology evolution and disruptive events like COVID-19 force organizations to rethink their business models. Whether B2B or B2C, customers expect on-demand, continuously connected and versatile solutions. “As-a-Service” offerings have become the new gold, while automation offers manufacturing businesses the possibility to shift from ‘one-off’ sales to continuous income models.

Decades of experience has allowed KPMG to lead the way in the digital transformation journey of business services, but underlying technical components have at times been under-represented. Through the alliance, DexMach will deploy its powerful data mining capabilities to more fully represent that ‘bottom-up’ segment, helping organizations to take advantage of innovation opportunities across all levels of their business.

“DexMach has an approach, services and tools to support customers building their Cloud partner eco-system. Via this alliance we can orchestrate customer Cloud benefits on technical and business levels to accelerate innovations in the Cloud,” said Kurt Van Hoecke; CEO DexMach.

By combining the diverse expertise into a joint market offering, KPMG and DexMach are empowering their clients to more freely choose from a wider-ranging service package and realize the full potential of cloud transformation.

KPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 147 countries and territories and have 219,000 people working in member firms around the world. KPMG in Belgium is an independent member firm of the KPMG network affiliated with KPMG International Limited (“KPMG International”), a private English company limited by guarantee. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such.

DexMach delivers services & solutions for leading-edge companies with a desire to innovate by harnessing the power of cloud-native services, for customers who want measurable ROI of cloud investments and a reliable and cost-effective operation of their IT platform. DexMach aims to be the best cloud Managed Service Provider. Testament to its operational excellence is the Microsoft Azure Expert MSP status, complemented with Advanced Specialization certifications for cloud migration, application, and data modernization, a guarantee for deep expertise and proven practices in cloud computing.