KPMG Strategic Alliances: Driving Innovation and Value Through Collaboration

At KPMG, strategic alliances are central to our goal of helping clients achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. To help you navigate this continued disruption, KPMG has built a strong network of alliances with some of the world’s leading technology, data and services companies.

Our alliance ecosystem is designed with a global view and to help address today’s top issues, trends and priorities. We combine our deep business process, risk, tax and industry experience with professionals who are trained and certified by our alliance partners, enabling us to deliver wide-ranging solutions across multiple platforms and technologies.

Through these strategic alliances, we deliver innovative solutions that help clients unlock strategic value, drive quicker ROI through accelerators, and overcome challenges to create new business value. By combining forces with leading services and technology providers, KPMG offers enhanced capabilities to help companies realize enterprise-wide value from strategy and technology implementations.

KPMG leverages strategic alliances to enhance its service offerings.

Strategic Alliance with Ellucian: Transforming Higher Education

LONDON and MILTON KEYNES, ENGLAND - Ellucian, a leading higher education technology solutions provider, and professional services firm KPMG UK, have today announced a new strategic alliance. This collaboration brings together Ellucian's powerful higher education technology with KPMG UK's strategic consulting expertise and assets to help institutions in the UK more efficiently manage their student data, driving operational efficiency and delivering improved outcomes and experiences for students and staff.

“KPMG UK brings a deep understanding of institutional strategy and operational complexity,” said Jeff Dinski, Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer, Ellucian. “Together, we're equipping UK universities with the tools and insights they need to navigate disruption, elevate the student experience and make data-informed decisions that fuel long-term success.”

KPMG UK is experienced in delivering large-scale digital transformation across the Higher Education sector. Its Powered Student offering focuses specifically on the challenges institutions are encountering across their student-facing services and systems, providing an end-to-end operational and digital improvement solution for the whole of the student lifecycle.

Ellucian Student, a SaaS-native Student Information System simplifies administration while offering high availability, resilience, security and enhanced user experiences. A core system for institutions around the globe, it enables higher education providers to operate more efficiently so they can focus on student success.

Bringing together the strengths of both organizations, Ellucian and KPMG UK are committed to helping institutions realise the value from their technology investments quicker, helping them thrive in a student-first, digital and cost-conscious environment.

“Demands on higher education from students, partners, industry, and national and regional government are changing,” said Sam Sanders, Head of Education, Skills and Productivity at KPMG UK. "Increased focus on learning outcomes is putting significant stress on traditional operating models and ailing IT infrastructure.

Strategic Alliance with Rimsys: Advancing Digital Transformation in MedTech

PITTSBURGH - March 11, 2025 -- Rimsys, the global leader of MedTech Regulatory Information Management (RIM) software, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance relationship with KPMG to advance digital transformation in the MedTech industry.

“KPMG’s deep experience in advisory and business transformation services and exceptional reputation make them a valuable alliance relationship for us,” said James Gianoutsos, Founder and CEO of Rimsys. “KPMG is on the cutting edge of industry trends and has a wide breadth of experience in helping companies innovate and scale. We are thrilled to work with them to help MedTech teams transform their regulatory management processes and leverage the benefits of automation and digitization as part of their broader transformation strategy.”

Founded for and by MedTech regulatory affairs professionals in 2017, Rimsys was created to bring efficiency to regulatory information management and fill an inhibitive technology gap in an underserved industry. Rimsys has since grown to support the world’s MedTech leaders backed by a staff that understands their complex workflows and a robust, secure technology infrastructure that allows customers to scale Rimsys software to support their changing regulatory needs and requirements.

The Rimsys and KPMG alliance aims to transform regulatory management in MedTech.

“There is tremendous innovation happening in the MedTech industry, and we are excited to work with Rimsys to help clients transform how they manage regulatory information for getting new products to market and sustaining their existing product portfolios. It’s critical to approach these programs as a holistic business transformation across people, process, technology, data, and governance & controls,” said Dipan Karumsi, Principal, Consulting Sector Leader for Life Sciences at KPMG.

“Through our strategic alliance with KPMG, we can further expand our reach to large and enterprise MedTech companies and continue our exponential growth,” said James. “Combined with KPMG’s experience helping organizations mature their data collection and transformation processes to reach RIM readiness, we can enable the MedTech industry to innovate faster, strengthen compliance, and most importantly, improve the availability of life-changing medical technologies.”

KPMG's Global Presence and Recognition

KPMG is a global organization of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Legal, Tax and Advisory services. It operates in 143 countries and territories with more than 275,000 partners and employees 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. The UK firm recorded revenue of £2.99 billion in the year ended 30 September 2024.

Global awards acknowledge KPMG firms’ commitment to driving innovation and delivering exceptional value to clients. KPMG is proud to be a Premier sponsor at Google Cloud Next ’25 in Las Vegas. In a recent survey of clients by Source, KPMG was ranked the #1 firm for quality of work and recognized as the leading authority in risk consulting in the US.

As cited in KPMG's CEO Outlook survey, "The main driver of growth is innovation and the use of technology." At a time when new technology is upending business models in every industry, many organizations don’t have the luxury of developing the needed competencies in-house.

Technology transforms the way business is done, from strategy through to delivery. Organizations are using new and emerging technologies to maintain competitive advantage and succeed in their digital transformation journeys.

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