Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, is announcing an expansive collaboration with Microsoft, paired with a portfolio of new end-to-end services for modernizing mainframe apps with Microsoft Cloud. Now recognized as a RISE with SAP delivery partner and debuting a series of new app migration and AI-enablement services, Kyndryl solidifies both its collaboration with Microsoft and commitment toward seamless migration journeys.
Kyndryl’s extended relationship with Microsoft emphasizes Kyndryl’s ability to help customers surmount complex challenges through its SAP expertise. Powering enterprises to reduce business disruption, lower costs, and maximize business impact with SAP solutions, Kyndryl will offer robust support for customers’ transformation journeys.
Kyndryl’s SAP and Microsoft expertise not only allows them to deliver end-to-end services for digital transformations but also extends Microsoft Cloud’s AI and GenAI solution by maximizing the value of SAP data.
“With Kyndryl’s unparalleled suite of migration services and their extensive expertise in RISE with SAP, they are an invaluable Microsoft partner,” said Stephen Boyle, global leader for global system integrators, enterprise system integrators and advisory partners at Microsoft. “Kyndryl’s advanced security capabilities and ability to efficiently migrate customers well ahead of the 2027 SAP deadline exemplify the strength and reliability of our collaboration.”
In addition to SAP enhancements, Kyndryl and Microsoft’s collaboration brings a suite of services engineered to modernize data and applications for Microsoft Azure. Underpinned by Kyndryl Consult, Kyndryl’s new service portfolio will guide customers through mainframe modernization with Azure, tailored to their unique business and needs. Kyndryl is offering the following paths based on a “right workload on the right platform” approach:
- Systems integration services that empower customers to create new cloud-native applications using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, as well as re-platform other applications in tandem. This pathway also extends Microsoft Azure DevSecOps pipelines to the mainframe, enabling automated testing and code scanning for improved consistency across mainframe and Azure platforms.
- Data governance that synchronizes mainframe data via Azure SQL Managed Instance and mainframe-based replication software, allowing customers to implement and enforce data governance strategies with Azure Purview across cloud and mainframe environments.
- Application modernization that encourages rapid innovation by integrating Azure cloud-native architectures, microservices, DevOps support, and built-in monitoring.
- AI deployment backed by Kyndryl’s deep AI expertise, enabling customers to unlock value from mainframe data with Microsoft Fabric.
- Security capabilities that integrate Microsoft Sentinel and authentication and policy frameworks with the mainframe, centralizing auditable control within an single plan across hybrid estates.
“Kyndryl’s strategic alliance with Microsoft, decades of experience advising, implementing, and managing mission-critical mainframe applications, coupled with thousands of skilled experts in this domain, makes us the ideal partner to guide customers on their mainframe modernization and AI initiatives with Microsoft Azure,” said Petra Goude, global practice leader for core enterprise and zCloud at Kyndryl. “We can help organizations elevate their hybrid IT operating models and enrich core business applications and data with Azure while advancing security, accelerating generative AI deployment, and expanding the developer ecosystem using the latest Microsoft Copilot technologies.”
To learn more about Kyndryl and Microsoft’s latest developments, please visit https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en.