Kyndryl Expands Strategic Partnership With Sap To Help Customers Overcome Digital Transformation Challenges

Fremont, CA: Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, has expanded its strategic partnership with SAP, focused on developing new solutions to enable customers to solve their most complex digital business transformation challenges.

The expanded partnership will use SAP's Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and Kyndryl's deep expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), data, as well as cyber resiliency services to speed up and enable customers to take a cost-effective path to the cloud.

Kyndryl will provide services that complement the RISE with SAP solutions, such as proven migration tools and scalable offerings, AI-driven business data management and analytics solutions, application modernization, and more, as part of the expanded collaboration.

Kyndryl and SAP also will collaborate on the following ERP services and solutions:

Modernization services: Services for modernization and cloud adoption for the entire SAP software environment, including non-SAP applications, to assist companies in accelerating their journey to RISE with SAP, with a focus on SAP S/4HANA® delivered as a cloud service. 

Data and AI services for SAP BTP: Kyndryl consultants and data scientists will offer data assessment and integration services to assist businesses in modernizing their SAP software, from the SAP Business Warehouse application to the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution. The services provide cloud-based analytics to harness data insights and business value across industries such as manufacturing, oil and gas, retail, telecommunications, and finance. 

Cyber resiliency services: Kyndryl practitioners will assist customers in enabling the rapid, simplified, and reliable recovery of an SAP software environment in the event of a cyberattack to help them recover quickly. Kyndryl's cyber resilience capabilities supplement RISE with SAP by providing the enterprise-level security needed in today's complex computing environments.

"We're thrilled to continue strengthening our offerings together to provide our valued customers a full suite of digital services as their business needs and challenges continue to change," stated Madhuri Chawla, Global Head of SAP Strategic Partnership and Alliances, Kyndryl. "As our customers embark on new and ongoing cloud transformation strategies, this joint effort allows us to streamline operations and enhance visibility across their mission-critical workloads at unprecedented speed and scale."