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4 years ago Winner Microsoft Partner of the Year | 2020 Advisory Services The Microsoft Global Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the past year. Awards were classified in several categories with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,300 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide. The Global Advisory Services Partner of the Year Award recognizes EY teams’ global capabilities that provide valuable consulting and advisory services and solutions using Microsoft technologies, innovation and robust skills to help clients digitally transform. This recognition also showcases EY teams’ ability to successfully leverage multiple Microsoft solutions, such as Azure, to deploy solutions powered by Microsoft. Of note, the award highlighted EY industry-leading global tax and audit Azurebased platforms, and specifically, the EY Global Tax Platform, an automated cloud-enabled tool for enterprises to digitally transform tax. This innovative solution brings together unique EY intellectual property and capabilities paired with Azure to seamlessly and quickly help the tax function to reduce risk, facilitate cost-efficient tax operations and provide analytics and knowledge to help drive more tax value.
Finalist Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Award | 2020 The Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Awards honor new technologies that help accounting firms and their small business clients operate more efficiently and profitably through improved workflow, increased accessibility or enhanced collaboration.
EY Global Tax Platform - by EY www.ey.com/en_us/tax/global-tax-platform
The EY Global Tax Platform (GTP) is a cloud-enabled Copernican shift that leverages the power of big data, advanced analytics and cutting-edge technology to support the evolving needs of tax professionals worldwide.
Organizations benefit from access to real-time data to mitigate risks, control costs and drive value from their tax function. GTP, powered by Microsoft Azure, is the only platform offering clients a comprehensive global view of their worldwide tax profile while utilizing best-in-class technology to gather, store and analyze data in a safe, secure environment.
GTP fuses Microsoft’s technology acumen with EY’s tax expertise to create efficiencies previously unrealized. Through EY’s vast client network, GTP has made it simple to connect and assess data globally. GTP integrates data from clients’ existing IT systems; provides built-in data transformation and validation; performs tax calculations and analysis; and applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve and adapt to clients’ unique needs and challenges. By using GTP automation and customizable dashboards, EY clients can open new windows into their global operations and tax savings opportunities, never before seen.
GTP is the result of EY’s commitment to offering clients a global platform that consolidates key data across international operations to provide a comprehensive view of organizational tax exposure. It equips clients tax functions with the ability to evolve and scale as their needs change while eliminating inefficiencies and harnessing world-class technology. GTP continues to illuminate a path through the complexities of tax landscapes worldwide.
https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/accounting-audit/article/21147925/2020-innovation-award-winners-announced
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Building Blocks Improvement:
I proposed a change that reduced deployment times at scale by 70 percent
Previously, Building Blocks deployment playbooks were so slow and they were unsustainable, mostly if the use case requires tens or hundreds components. Also you don't have a standard method for secrets saving in KeyVault and, there is no idempotency for component deployment.
We’ve found some Building Blocks,can take ~15 minutes to get deployed including diagnostic settings, and secrets stored in a KeyVault. Also you can’t send again the same deployment with only a small change in a property, at least no easily.
We fixed this by replacing AZ-CLI commands with Azure Rest API (Management and KeyVault) calls, and cut deployment times by nearly 70 percent. While we made significant gains in the building block deployment, we have a lot of opportunities to carry this knowledge over to other components. We’ve already tested the approach for Storage Account, App Service, SQL Server among others.
We can also gain ease of use by adding a generic layer like a Function App or another Building Block to leverage KeyVault API Calls to ease and speed secret managements for routine work loads and for other Building Blocks .
We also think an improvement area could be enhancing idempotency of deployments, there should be a way to enforce incremental component deployment by enhancing naming engine and naming handling inside the Building Blocks.
We also have the opportunity to share our code with the Building Blocks team so that all teams at EY can benefit from these changes.
Our approach is to get a Core Team, doing this work and get the current building block experience to the next-level.