BPI and Kyndryl Celebrate 10 Years of Strategic Partnership

“Our continued collaboration with Kyndryl underscores our shared commitment to digital transformation, aimed at enhancing customer experience and ensuring data management and protection. As a testament to our dedication to digitalization and customer obsession, we at BPI continue to innovate banking products and platforms as part of our mission to help build a better Philippines – one family, one community at a time.” ~Alex Seminiano, BPI Chief Technology Officer

BPI President and CEO TG Limcaoco with Kyndryl Global Group President Elly Keinan

The continued trust illustrates Kyndryl’s commitment to the enhancement of its local delivery capabilities to support customers in the Philippines and abroad as they accelerate their plans to modernize, digitally transform and build operational resiliency. As the nation continues to grow its digital competitiveness, Kyndryl in collaboration with BPI, is focused on the education, skill advancement and experience of its local workforce to take advantage of the latest technologies in the areas of automation, cloud, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. We believe your readers would find merit on both companies’ shared values.

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, and Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), a leading provider of financial services and an industry pillar in the Philippines, commemorate the 10^th anniversary of their technology infrastructure services partnership that underpins BPI’s robust IT governance framework.

"We are deeply honoured to be a strategic technology partner for BPI over the past ten years and remain fully committed to helping them continuously transform for a bright digital future. At Kyndryl, we are excited to do our part to contribute to the deep base of homegrown technical talent in the Philippines and we look forward to collaborating with BPI to build a community of skilled technical experts in new areas such as automation and cloud modernization services.” ~Wilson Go, Managing Director of Kyndryl Philippines

Over the past decade, BPI made significant advancements across its Data Center Operations, Server and Storage Management, IT Service Desk, Security Management, and Asset Management operations, fine-tuning standard procedures and tools across its organization. Through its partnership with Kyndryl, BPI, with its substantial network of 752 branches across the country, has grown its technical talent and is now taking advantage of advanced technology solutions to foster its ongoing digital transformation and is working to create a seamless customer experience for its clientele.

Photo shows (from left): Wilson Go, Kyndryl Philippines Managing Director; Andrew Lim, Kyndryl ASEAN Managing Director; TG Limcaoco, BPI President and CEO; Elly Keinan, Kyndryl Global Group President; and Mariels Winhoffer, Kyndryl Global Business Development Leader

Kyndryl is investing in the Philippines and is committed to continuing to enhance its local delivery capabilities to support customers in the Philippines and abroad as they accelerate their plans to modernize, digitally transform and build operational resiliency. As the nation continues to grow its digital competitiveness, Kyndryl in collaboration with BPI, is focused on the education, skill advancement and experience of its local workforce to take advantage of the latest technologies in the areas of automation, cloud, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.

About BPI

The Bank of the Philippine Islands (PSE: BPI), is the first bank in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. BPI is licensed as a universal bank by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to provide a diverse range of financial services: deposit taking and cash management, payments, lending and leasing, asset management, bancassurance, investment banking, securities brokerage, and foreign exchange and capital markets. BPI has significant financial strength, with robust Tier 1 capital adequacy ratios and profitability, underpinned by stringent compliance and risk management regimes. For more information, visit www.bpi.com.ph.

 

About Kyndryl

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider serving thousands of enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. The company designs, builds, manages, and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit  www.kyndryl.com.

Kyndryl Study Reveals 77% of Organizations in ASEAN are Focusing on Becoming Sustainable

“In today’s evolved economies, an organization’s relevance and success will be measured both in terms of financial and climate aspects. This has spurred organisations to appoint Chief Sustainability Officers and highlighted the growing importance of sustainability skillsets for tomorrow’s workforce. This research highlights how the lack of data consistently hinders an organization’s sustainability planning. While sustainability is an integral part of many businesses in ASEAN, there is a lot more that needs to be done to build sustainability competencies and fully understand what data organizations have access to and identify the data gaps to support corporate sustainability goals.” ~Ullrich Loeffler, CEO, Ecosystm

ASEAN is predicted to become the fourth largest economy in the world by 2030. Propelled by the favourable demographic trends, rising income levels, increasing technology adoption and a fast-growing consumer market, the region’s outlook looks promising.

Kyndryl (NYSE:KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, today announced the new findings of the recently launched Kyndryl ASEAN Digital Transformation Study 2022, in collaboration with technology research and advisory firm Ecosystm. The study aims to outline the key business priorities and technology trends in ASEAN enterprises, including their sustainability goals.
 
Five hundred C-suite leaders participated in the study across ASEAN, and the findings revealed that Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) awareness is growing exponentially in the region with some industries leading the way. Despite the greater focus on sustainability, organizations are still lacking a holistic strategy and are grappling with how to integrate their data to set science-based targets, all while navigating external challenges such as stricter regulations. The results indicate that while organizations in ASEAN are aware about their responsibility to balance sustainability and profitability, there are still challenges that hinder them to set and achieve their sustainability goals.


Several key insights from the study that highlight the state of sustainable organizations in ASEAN include:
 

1. Sustainability is an Integral Part of Business Priorities

According to the study, 77% of organizations in ASEAN are focusing on becoming sustainable organizations. They are being driven to develop and demonstrate an ESG consciousness in their actions and investment, by their customers, investors and by governments’ sustainability mandates. However, many organizations pursue sustainability goals without a strategy backing them up – only 23% of organizations in ASEAN have a corporate sustainability strategy.

 

2. Organizations Often Lack a Holistic Sustainability Strategy

While the majority ofe organizations are focusing on budget allocation for sustainability initiatives, they have not gone beyond that to identify the right skills and data required to support the initiatives. Only 4% of organizations across ASEAN have a holistic strategy and are focusing on external and last-mile challenges such as negotiating ambiguous reporting frameworks.
 

3. Customers and Investors Drive Sustainability Efforts

Responding to customer expectations has become a norm for every successful business today – and this extends to environmental and social consciousness. In fact, customers are driving environmental and social responsibility in organizations; in most cases more than regulations are. This is especially true in Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand.
 

4. Data is a Leading Challenge for Sustainability Initiatives

The study finds that the leading barriers to sustainability projects in ASEAN are: 60% operational costs, 55% data availability and 50% lack of dedicated resources. This confirms that organizations’ sustainability initiatives are still at preliminary stage. In today’s data-driven world, it is very likely that organizations have access to the data needed for their sustainability efforts. But it is often not integrated within their overall data strategy that helps identify the right data sets, collect the necessary data across all operations, and has embedded analytics for the right insights.
 

5. The Media & Telecom Industry is Ahead of the Curve

While sustainability initiatives are yet to mature, some industries are leading the way in their strategies, and especially in their initiatives. Media & Telecom and Energy & Utilities for example, are among the most mature industries given the incentives to adopt sustainable practices are cost-related and for future survival. Other industries that have initiated smaller eco-friendly measures have also found some early success and this includes the Retail industry where there has been focus on reducing the use of plastic in packaging and procuring locally to reduce carbon footprints.
 

“As ASEAN is predicted to become the fourth largest economy in the world by 2030, there is a now a huge responsibility for businesses in the region to balance the long-term imperative of a net-zero future with the short-term need to safeguard the bottom line. I strongly believe that the success of sustainability lies in how well an organization can integrate its people, processes and technology to achieve a common goal. To achieve this goal, we need to put people at the centre and embed sustainability principles at all levels of the organization culture.” ~Wilson Go, Managing Director, Kyndryl Philippines

At Kyndryl, ESG strategy is at the heart of the organization’s mission to become a purpose-driven company. Kyndryl’s strategic focus is to continue to grow its Cloud business, to enable an estimated 22-39% increase in energy efficiency. The company will also continue the expansion of renewable energy across its portfolio, growing it to 75% within the next few years for all of its data centres.
 
With this projected growth comes a huge responsibility for businesses in the region including here in the Philippines to balance the long-term imperative of a net-zero future with the short-term need to safeguard the bottom line. Driven by the demand from customers, investors and by governments’ sustainability mandates, there is now a need for organizations in the Philippines to develop and demonstrate an Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) consciousness in their actions and investments.

 

 
 

About Kyndryl

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider. The Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl’s more than 90,000 employees serve over 4,000 customers in more than 100 countries around the world, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. 

Kyndryl Introduces New Platform, Kyndryl Bridge, to Orchestrate IT Estates and Drive Business Growth

“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. 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.” ~Martin Schroeter, Kyndryl’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

The  latest offering from IT leader Kyndryl that brings transparency, order and greater access to best-in-class technology to its customers.

Kyndryl Introduces New Platform, Kyndryl Bridge, to Orchestrate IT Estates and Drive Business Growth. Platform brings transparency, order, and greater access to the latest technology innovations for customers.

The Kyndryl Bridge is a new open integration platform that generate actionable insights. Its intelligent management tools, powered by automation and AI, will provide technology leaders with real-time understanding to prevent downtime and better forecast future needs and costs. Its capabilities have, on average, reduced the number of incidents per server per month for enterprises by 74 percent.

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, today announced a new open integration platform giving business leaders real-time insights into their complex IT estates, and unprecedented control over customizing their mission-critical operations.

Kyndryl Bridge leverages Kyndryl’s core technology strengths. It marshals decades of expertise, operational data patterns and IP to generate actionable insights that redefine how enterprises improve and accelerate their AI-powered analytics and business objectives. In doing so, it creates an uninterrupted path between digital business and the tech that drives it. Kyndryl Bridge is designed to meet customers where they are today, enabling interoperability that maximizes the value of tools they already know and trust.

Across the global economy, digital modernization efforts sit at the top of today’s business agendas, with 60 percent of CIOs citing it as their most critical growth driver in 2022. However, business and technology complexity — along with a shortage of critical IT skills — has 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. 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." ~David Tapper, program VP, Outsourcing and Managed Cloud Service at IDC

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

“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. It provides greater access and control over critical tools, and Kyndryl experts in cloud, data and AI, security and resiliency, mainframe modernization, and other important aspects of the IT estate.” ~Antoine Shagoury, Kyndryl’s Chief Technology Officer

Designed with configurability in mind, Kyndryl Bridge is evolving to deploy ready-made, industrial scale solutions from Kyndryl and its broad and growing partner ecosystem. Its intelligent management tools, powered by automation and AI, will provide technology leaders with real-time insights to prevent downtime and better forecast future needs and costs.

“As customers accelerate their digital transformation, Kyndryl’s new digital integration platform can help provide rich data insights, solutions automation, and services delivery expertise. Kyndryl Bridge is a big step forward to enable Kyndryl and Cisco to deliver business outcomes our joint customers are demanding.” ~Nick Holden, Vice President, Cisco Global Strategic Partners and Co-sell

For customers, the platform maximizes the benefits of native multi-cloud capabilities and delivers an ‘as-a-service’ (aaS) 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 a deep bench of industry expertise and forward-thinking innovators across virtually every sector of the global economy.

For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.

About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider serving thousands of enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. The Company designs, builds, manages, and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day.