Kyndryl and RISE with SAP: Pioneering the next wave of digital transformations

What pressures do businesses face as they modernize their ERP systems?

Businesses must evolve to continue meeting their customers’ needs. By modernizing their systems, they can increase efficiency and performance, and benefit from better insights into their data and operations. But how does Kyndryl help ensure that our business customers take full advantage of their updated systems, and capture solid returns on their technology investments?

For our customers, the answer is blended. We help businesses optimize the use of the software platforms they own while leveraging our deep IT management and digital transformation experience. For example, businesses want to realize actionable insights from their SAP data, drive faster application development cycles and embrace data integration services that are critical to SAP S/4HANA Cloud transformation. When we combine our expertise, along with SAP’s platform use cases, we can accelerate our customer’s time-to-value and optimize their transformation journey.

As the new leader of Kyndryl’s Global Applications, Data and AI practice, what will be the immediate focus areas?

As Kyndryl’s first CIO, I lived and breathed our own transformation journey over the past two years, applying the culmination of my experiences as an enterprise IT professional. So, I understand the priorities, pressures and obstacles that organizations must balance during their transformations. And while no two businesses are the same, each needs to maintain business operations while completing their transformations within budgetary and time constraints. In my new role, I’ll be able to apply the firsthand experiences of being both a customer and services provider. And I’ll lead Kyndryl in providing our customers with the capabilities to support their digital transformations.

What’s next for the alliance between Kyndryl and SAP?

Kyndryl’s alliance with SAP adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Working together, we will continue to meet our joint customers’ needs — wherever they are on their digital transformation journeys.