AMSTERDAM and NEW
YORK and ARMONK, N.Y.,
Oct. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Kyndryl and IBM today announced an agreement with ABN AMRO,
a 420 million Euro deal that builds
upon their long-standing services relationship for the management
of the bank's hybrid cloud infrastructure, supporting its domestic
and international operations through the end of 2029. Based in
the Netherlands, ABN AMRO serves
retail, private and corporate banking customers in Northern Europe with loans, mortgages and
other banking solutions.
This innovative agreement is intended to enable the bank to
transform and modernize its IT operating model. The goal is to have
a more responsive and client centric way of working to help towards
a faster, flatter, more focused, more flexible and provide more
degrees of freedom. This can help ABN AMRO to realize its goal of
developing and delivering more personal services to its customers
in the digital age.
The transformation includes:
- The integration of the Kyndryl team with the ABN AMRO team to
implement a single services delivery model This will have the goal
of helping to eliminate the duplication and management of
overhead.
- Alignment of these jointly provided services to the bank-owned
strategic platforms with SaaS, Azure*, mainframe, and on-premises
private cloud services.
- The implementation of a single set of tooling and consistent
processes used by Kyndryl and ABN AMRO and across all
platforms.
- Convergence of current on-premises platforms to a single
private cloud, helping to eliminate duplication and provide
enhanced services for consumers.
- Further modernization of the mainframe platform, building on
industry best practices, including enablement of DevOps and
CI/CD.
- Modernization of middleware through the deployment of IBM Cloud
Paks.
IBM will supply IBM Z hardware and software, including IBM Cloud
Pak for Data, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and WebSphere Hybrid
Edition to help accelerate the journey to hybrid cloud. By shifting
from traditional licenses towards IBM Cloud Paks, ABN AMRO can
benefit from the flexibility to run existing workloads on both
on-premises and public cloud platforms enabling a faster pace with
the journey to cloud.
"This agreement is core to achieving our IT operating model
goals for the current decade. ABN AMRO will re-take end-to-end
control and responsibility for platform services while maintaining
close support from essential, embedded capabilities provided by
Kyndryl. More parties in the complex ecosystem will have controlled
access to production environments enabling true multi-party Agile
and DevOps. We will integrate the teams into a single service
delivery model in order to ensure speed, flexibility and
consistency for our consumer community," said Jan van Groningen, ABN AMRO Chief Technology
Officer. "We are pleased to continue a productive and
successful collaboration with IBM and Kyndryl moving forward."
"ABN AMRO has been a key IBM client for decades," said
Marcell Schmidt, Technology Leader
for IBM Netherlands. "We look forward to a continued close
relationship, collaborating with Kyndryl, enabling the
modernization of existing applications and new solutions powering
ABN AMRO's platforms."
"We are delighted with ABN AMRO's engagement of Kyndryl and look
forward to continuing the transformation of the services we provide
to the bank," said Jonathan Ingram,
Kyndryl Managing Partner for ABN AMRO. "This approach can enable
clients to fully adopt DevOps while maintaining the security,
resilience and high availability services that Kyndryl prides
itself on."
IBM and ABN AMRO signed their hybrid cloud infrastructure
transformation agreement in June 2021
(IBM's second quarter 2021).
*Azure is a trademark of the Microsoft group of companies.
About ABN AMRO
ABN AMRO is one of the Netherlands' leading banks. We create
value for our stakeholders by providing individuals and businesses
with banking services such as loans, mortgages, payments, savings,
advice and asset management. Our focus is on Northwest Europe, with over 19,000
ABN AMRO employees worldwide. Outside the Netherlands, ABN AMRO has offices in 13
countries. Our vision is to be a personal bank in the digital age,
serving clients where we have scale in the Netherlands and Northwest Europe.
For more information, visit: www.abnamro.com
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl is the new independent public
company that will be created following the separation of IBM's
Managed Infrastructure Services business, expected to occur by the
end of 2021. Kyndryl designs, builds, manages and modernizes
the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on
every day, with the industry's most experienced services
experts.
For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com
About IBM
For more information on IBM, visit
www.ibm.com
Contacts
Ed Barbini
edward.barbini@kyndryl.com
Lia Davis
lia.p.davis@kyndryl.com
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