KPMG in India, a leading provider of tax and advisory services to Indian tech companies, has recently acquihired Shinvansh Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Shivansh), an SAP consulting and implementation services provider based in New Delhi. The strategic move is intended to augment the firm’s practice of Indian technology implementation for a faster go-to-market as well as improve response capability through sharp consulting and implementation offerings. 

Aside from acquiring Shivansh’s software products and IP rights, the directors and the core team of SAP consultants will also be joining the firm.

Mandar Joshi, Partner and Head- Technology Implementation Practice, KPMG in India, said:

“Technology implementation and consulting are shifting the business performance of companies with better insights and more accurate results. At KPMG, our tech-implementation capabilities are deep-rooted in amongst the best technologies, domain knowledge and trusted data and analytics to help our clients enhance their investment on a technology platform, with the help of consistent insights.”

“Shivansh is known for its consulting expertise, with a track record of successful implementation for clients across a range of industries. The acquihire will help us unlock the value of efficient implementation and cloud transformation for our spectrum of clients and their varied business needs that we address on a daily basis,” Joshi added. 

Recognising SAP’s strong presence in India, KPMG can now leverage the SAP Gold Partner Shivansh’s custom technology solutions built on the SAP cloud platform for its clients aside from providing capabilities across SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors and SAP analytics. 

Amit Gupta, Co-Founder and Director of Shivansh said:

“Shivansh has been a trusted partner for SAP services and we have focused on providing innovative solutions to our customers since inception. As we experience a surge in unique demands of the dynamic and maturing enterprise market, combined with the innovation in emerging tech such as artificial intelligence (AI), RPA, and blockchain, increased bandwidth will help to leverage our expertise and enhance customer experience.”

Shivansh boasts of its team of SAP veterans including Director Amit Gupta, an SAP-certified FI/CO Consultant with over nine years of SAP experience; Mani Katta, a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant with strong experience in SAP treasury; Rakesh Sharma, C.A. (inter) and SAP Certified FI/CO Consultant with over 11 years of SAP experience; and Yadavendra Singh, a Chartered Accountant and an SAP Certified FI/CO Consultant with over 10 years of SAP experience. The seasoned SAP team provides expert consulting and focused solutions for SAP implementation, support and related assignments.  

“KPMG in India has been at the forefront in providing technology solutions with a blend of process knowledge to organisations. This acquihire provides tremendous synergy and growth opportunity through extended services offering for our employees, customers, and partners. We are truly excited about embarking on this exciting journey with KPMG in India, which will help us unlock numerous growth opportunities,” Gupta said.

In June 2019, KPMG in India had also acquihired Mumbai-based Recommender Labs (RLPL), an artificial intelligence (AI)-led decision-science services company build unique assets, to enable swift go-to-market and build the ability to respond with sharp AI-led offerings.

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Chinese Service Partner

Deloitte Consulting’s SAP service line partner, Andy Zhou, attended 2019 SAP China Partner Kick Off Meeting earlier this month, and received the award for SAP 2018 Best Service Partner of the Year on behalf of Deloitte Consulting China. It shines a spotlight on the partner’s remarkable contributions, acknowledging its dedication to teamwork, innovative approach and capacity to challenge what is possible to help customers achieve their goals.

The strategic collaboration with SAP has established closer cooperation in all major industries and key products and Deloitte Consulting have leveraged their advisory specialisation and industry experience to assist customers in digital transformation, cloud transformation and digital innovation based on a wide range of SAP’s key products for technology enablement. SAP appreciates Deloitte Consulting’s consistent contribution in its ecosystem especially on the commitments demonstrated in various aspects such as the following, which then resulted in us receiving such award and this continues to solidify our leading position in the marketplace helping clients in their transformation.

What it Takes to Win

The following accomplishments made Deloitte Consulting the best:

• Maintained the leading number of SAP S/4HANA implementation projects, and actively cooperated with SAP on SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
• Numerous large-scale SAP S/4HANA projects have been implemented and around 2/3 of them have gone live successfully in 2018.
• First C/4HANA Hybris on Cloud project in China was won and implemented by Deloitte Consulting and has gone live successfully.
• Maintained the leading position in data analytics and SAP Ariba 
• Further expanded and strengthened the implementation capacity of SAP SuccessFactors.
• First Global Deloitte Leonardo Innovation Space was officially launched, and Leonardo-based industry innovation solutions based on customer innovation needs were established and demonstrated in SAP Sapphire conference.

With the extensive collaboration of both SAP and Deloitte Consulting, it has brought forward innovative solutions that can help clients drive business performance and this synergy will continue to elevate swiftly to assist more clients jointly in becoming intelligent enterprises.

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