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Kyndryl announces Kyndryl Bridge to drive business growth
Tue, 27th Sep 2022
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Kyndryl has announced a new open integration platform providing business leaders insights into their IT estates and control over customising their mission-critical operations. 

Kyndryl Bridge uses operational data patterns and IP to improve and accelerate its AI-powered analytics and business objectives, creating a path between digital business and the tech that drives it. Kyndryl Bridge is designed to enable interoperability that maximises the value of tools. 

“Dealing with complexity is what Kyndryl does best, and what customers need most. Kyndryl Bridge will be a way for our customers, and Kyndryl, to run their mission-critical infrastructure and digital transformation journeys better,” says Martin Schroeter, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kyndryl.   

“Kyndryl is committed to transforming how IT services are delivered, and Kyndryl Bridge is core to our long-term strategic mission to grow our ecosystem of alliance partners, use tools and IP to create a robust advanced delivery system, and ultimately dedicate more expertise and focus to best serve customers at scale.”

Across the global economy, digital modernisation efforts sit at the top of business agendas, with 60% of CIOs citing it as their most critical growth driver in 2022. However, business and technology complexity and a shortage of critical IT skills have slowed progress for most enterprises. Kyndryl is accelerating its customers’ digital business journeys by innovating to deliver solutions through platform-enabled services.

"Enterprise IT leaders today are responsible for the management of increasingly-complex IT estates that demand greater oversight, interoperability, and AI-powered analytics to avert challenges and downtime," says David Tapper, program VP, Outsourcing and Managed Cloud Service, IDC. 

"The ability of Kyndryl Bridge to connect the many tools, workflows, and processes in which enterprises have spent years investing, while delivering real-time, actionable insights and recommendations, is a powerful proposition for enterprises throughout the global economy."

Kyndryl Bridge integrates and connects the management and process tools that enterprises throughout the global economy. Its capabilities have, on average, reduced the number of incidents per server per month for enterprises by 74%. 

“By enabling leaders to focus less on managing IT systems, they can build and support their digital business strategies while freeing up IT resources for higher-value work,” says Antoine Shagoury, Chief Technology Officer,  Kyndryl.

“It provides greater access and control over critical tools, and Kyndryl experts in cloud, data and AI, security and resiliency, mainframe modernisation, and other important aspects of the IT estate.”

The platform maximises the benefits of native multi-cloud capabilities and delivers an as-a-service operating environment. It is designed to be a strategic digital hub that will continue to expand and grow over time, connecting Kyndryl’s advanced technology and tooling with industry innovators across every sector of the economy.