Enterprise AI Maturity Drives Expanded Microsoft-KPMG Collaboration

**Bob Evans** (0:00)
Hello and welcome to the Cloud Wars Agent and Copilot Minute, where we explore the opportunities, impacts, and outcomes made possible with AI.
Now some big partner news today, KPMG and Microsoft are expanding their existing partnership to help firms scale agentic AI initiatives. Another example of how far things have progressed in a few short years, as companies become increasingly AI mature and start to incorporate these transformational technologies across their business. Now within the new agreement, KPMG will leverage Microsoft Agent 365 to enhance its trusted AI framework. In order to help KPMG clients deliver agentic AI across their enterprises, while KPMG member firms will also be deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot on a global scale, totaling over 276,000 users. So massive rollout of Copilot there. But the big story here is how KPMG is further integrating, this time from an agentic AI stant, Microsoft technology into its client service delivery platforms.
And what this means is that it's making it easier for KPMG's clients to scale AI because of the consistency this provides, its consistency in governance, in deployments, management, and in production. And that's the real customer benefit here, this deepening of relationship between Microsoft and KPMG. And I think partnerships like this are so important because the amount of options and strategies for AI deployment is really quite mind-boggling. So when you have one of the big four consultancies showing the way, using a consistent set of tools in house and with its customers, the outcomes are just going to be that much better. Thank you for watching.