Kyndryl and BPI celebrate 10 years of strategic partnership

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 (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.

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.

“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

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.

"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

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 Reveals Eight Tech Trends to Watch in 2023

Kyndryl (NYSE:KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, today reveals the most influential trends that will impact IT decision-making in 2023 and beyond. As technology evolves and complex business problems continue to emerge, IT professionals will face new challenges in the coming year. Some changes will fuel innovation, while others will spur debate around AI ethics. And others, such as cyber threats, will force companies to mitigate and meet these risks head-on. Kyndryl works with companies in ASEAN and around the world to help them tackle their most pressing business objectives in modern ways. Here, Wilson Go, Managing Director, Kyndryl Philippines shares the eight technology trends that every business leaders should know about.

 

1. Cyber resilience will overtake cybersecurity as top security concern

With 88% of company boards now seeing cybersecurity more as a business risk than a technology risk, according to a Gartner survey, cyber resilience will no longer just be a problem for Chief Information Security Officers in 2023. More likely, every level of an organization’s executive suite will be part of the conversation and equation.

 It’s not just an IT discussion. Companies must understand that they’re more likely to endure a cyber event than a physical disaster, and they must protect all areas of their business. That could lead to the hottest security job of the year: Cyber Resilience Officer.

 

2. AI ethics will become imperativeResponsible AI solutions — areas that address trust, risk, ethics, security and transparency — will become more mainstream. We’ll see solutions that target personalized insights — whether it is related to aspects such as credit risk, underwriting or simply recommendation engines for dynamic pricing or influencing buying decisions. Similarly, data observability will become crucial and the key to scaling AI for business. Without a robust, secure data foundation and DataOps, it will be hard to scale and democratize data consumption.

 

3. The cloud will drive innovationCompanies that had embraced cloud adoption prior to the COVID-19 pandemic fared better than those that hadn’t in terms of their ability to pivot their business models and capitalize on new opportunities and revenue streams. Experts said the same will hold true in the event of an economic downturn. Cloud adoption provides the quickest path to innovation and gives companies much more flexibility to run their businesses in hard times.

 

4. Companies will embrace distributed cloudWe expect companies to increasingly take a distributed cloud path as they embrace a federated model between cloud and edge. There are many advantages of a distributed model, including the ability to better visualize and harness data across an organization to drive value and enable new Web3 capabilities. In a distributed cloud environment, workloads are aligned with specific resource locations in order to meet compliance needs and performance requirements or support edge computing, while being centrally managed from a public cloud provider.

 

5. Cloud networking will growAs more enterprises shift workloads and business to the cloud, they are using different means of connectivity to the cloud than what was traditionally built in the past. We have seen an increase in service providers that are virtualizing network infrastructure and providing it as a service to enterprises. However, a lot of these companies do not have a good direct-to-enterprise channel. There will be an increasing demand to integrate the connectivity with managed services, and help enterprises manage the multi-networks.

 

6. 5G private wireless to move beyond industry 4.0While the manufacturing, petrochemical, gas and energy industries have successfully deployed private wireless and edge solutions to drive business efficiencies and cost savings, other segments like retail have lagged. Without question, 2023 will be the year 5G private wireless use cases and testing take hold across other industries, with retail leading the pack. From enabling cashier-less payment, real-time analytics, personalized promotions, asset tracking and supply chain optimization, private wireless and edge will be key to unlocking the next generation of the shopping and CX experience.

 

7. Personalized digital employee experiences are must-haves for hybrid workThe digital workplace has transformed into an environment where employees choose what channels they want to use to engage across organizations. The challenge many organizations face is ensuring that this new environment is seamless, delivers a great experience for employees and at the same time, enhances collaboration and organizational culture. In 2023, digital experiences will take a top spot on the recruiting checklist and will also impact retention.

 

8. Mainframe will solidify its role in hybrid cloud strategiesEnterprises will accelerate mainframe modernization for fuller integration into a hybrid cloud environment. Faced with reduced IT budgets and skills challenges, companies will take an end-to-end approach to get the most out of their platforms through modernizing on, integrating with hyperscalers, or moving workloads off the mainframe — versus only a singular approach to move off. They´ll also leverage the expanding integration capabilities of the cloud platform to access mainframe data and apps to address new business requirements with faster time to value.

 

About KyndrylKyndryl (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. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.