Platform drives improved business results, already delivering annualized savings of more than 1TP4Q1 billion for early customers
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Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world's largest technology infrastructure services provider, today announced that more than 500 global enterprise customers are operating on the Kyndryl Bridge platform, with more than 1,000 customers expected by the end of the fiscal year. Kyndryl Bridge is the industry's first open integration technology services platform and integrates artificial intelligence (AI), operational data and Kyndryl's expertise to offer customers a new way to operate their systems and deliver better business outcomes.
As the #1 provider of infrastructure deployment and managed services in the world, Kyndryl is integrating AI and machine learning (ML) at scale into mission-critical systems. The company also leverages its expertise, including intellectual property, patents, skills and deep industry experience, to accelerate the delivery of innovations and new services as customers look to derive value from emerging technologies to transform their operations.
Kyndryl Bridge is estimated to have already helped early adopter customers avoid over US$ 1 billion in annual costs, including:
· US$ $670 million in annualized cost prevention as a result of preventing thousands of incidents before they occur.
· US$ 370 million in annualized cost avoidance as a result of reduced required maintenance windows.
“Kyndryl Bridge reinvents the way business leaders manage their increasingly complex technology fleet,” said Martin Schroeter, Chairman and CEO of Kyndryl. “This distinctive, AI-powered, open integration services platform accelerates automation, drives efficiency, and creates a more sustainable operation – helping companies advance their goals of growth and delivering value to their stakeholders.”
Integrated platform accelerates digital transformation
Kyndryl Bridge was launched in September 2022 as part of Kyndryl's Advanced Delivery initiative, a core area of the company's “three As” strategy. The platform builds on Kyndryl's decades of experience managing complex, mission-critical customer environments and is an “as a Service” operating environment that includes a single marketplace, operational management console and analytics engine. of AI and ML.
“The need for a multi-cloud management platform to control all resources (on-premises and cloud) is critical for companies migrating and modernizing technology to the cloud while transforming their business,” said David Tapper, vice president of outsourcing. and managed cloud services from IDC. “Leveraging a multi-cloud management platform like Kyndryl Bridge that can support public cloud providers, automate development and deployment processes, accelerate time to business outcomes, and provide comprehensive visibility into technology operations, while time using AI to drive efficiencies and aligning consumption with specific user needs, plus FinOps to optimize spend on cloud resources, map costs to business units, and forecast spend and budget, should help achieve these goals.”
Alliance Partners Co-Innovate at Kyndryl Bridge
Additionally, Kyndryl and its technology alliances are collaborating to accelerate and deliver real-time insights and innovation across all IT properties.
“We are co-innovating with Kyndryl to develop new solutions that enable customers to gain greater visibility and value from their existing technology investments and data properties,” said Chris Niederman, General Manager, Global Systems Integrators, AWS. “By combining Kyndryl's long-standing experience and applied intelligence with the vast scale of AWS data lake and machine learning services, we are working to better serve joint customers and help them leverage data more effectively within your organization, for more informed business decisions that drive your transformation.”
“We are working with Kyndryl to simplify and accelerate transformation for our customers,” said Steffi Kuebler, senior vice president and head of Business Data and Transformation Solutions at SAP. “Starting with new migration and automation techniques to reduce design times, we are providing a holistic view of SAP and non-SAP workloads from a single dashboard that helps customers gain important insights and understanding of their enterprise data. .”
“The combination of Kyndryl Bridge services with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helps customers design, implement and accelerate their cloud transformation projects more efficiently. It also allows customers to more easily leverage a robust ecosystem of resources to gain greater visibility, control and management of application costs. Together, Red Hat and Kyndryl are helping customers unlock value from their technology investments faster for real business results,” said Stefanie Chiras, senior vice president, Partner Ecosystem Success at Red Hat.
Accelerated expansion of services
With nearly 190 digitally enabled services scheduled to be available on Kyndryl Bridge by the end of the current fiscal year (March 2024), Kyndryl is driving AI innovation and expanding the depth and breadth of services so customers can get better business results, such as:
· Achieve AI-driven outcomes – A growing number of services that will help unlock more opportunities for customers, manage and model data, and deliver industry-specific outcomes – from enabling Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing practices and reducing production quality risks, to identifying new markets to develop and sell products at scale.
· Become more resilient and cybersecurity compliant – New services that will optimize an organization’s security investments – from data integration to cyber threat prevention, managing security incident workflows, and consideration of local and global data compliance requirements.
· Achieving Net Zero Goals – The AI-powered sustainability intelligence and carbon footprint assessment calculator will measure real-time energy consumption and emission data to help customers analyze, simulate, predict and generate actionable recommendations to improve efficiency energy throughout the technology park.
