Workiva, a data collaboration, reporting and compliance solutions provider, and U.S. audit, tax, and advisory firm KPMG recently announced an alliance to provide a strategic offering designed to help organizations transform and integrate their risk management, regulatory, and financial reporting and compliance processes by using the Workiva Wdesk platform.

With cloud-based capabilities for automation, synchronized data, controlled collaboration and real-time data monitoring, Wdesk users are able to improve productivity and accountability in their processes for internal controls over financial reporting, risk assessments, regulatory compliance, and financial reporting. KPMG, with its deep functional risk and compliance experience across all industries, helps organizations optimize technology solutions to better manage risk, help achieve process efficiencies, and improve internal controls management.

“Pairing our Wdesk platform with KPMG’s technology-risk specialists creates a unified, multidisciplinary solution and team to help customers streamline and automate a wide variety of complex risk, compliance and reporting processes,” said Workiva CEO Marty Vanderploeg. “By working together, we will help organizations gain insights, make data-driven decisions and ultimately drive better business outcomes.”

KPMG and Workiva help organizations start, or continue, their process-transformation journey to deliver more efficient, effective, and integrated risk management and compliance programs.