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Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. provides mission-critical enterprise technology services, including advisory, implementation and managed services for complex IT environments. Company news commonly covers infrastructure modernization, cloud and distributed cloud services, mainframe services, cybersecurity, public- and private-cloud work, and the Kyndryl Bridge AI-powered integration platform.
Recurring updates also include customer and government-agency contracts, systems modernization programs for motor vehicle agencies, hyperscaler collaborations such as Google Cloud work, and quarterly or annual operating results. The company's disclosures frame Kyndryl as a global IT infrastructure services provider serving customers across more than 60 countries.
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) on January 21, 2026 introduced its Clean Field approach that uses agentic AI—via a collaboration with Nova Intelligence—to accelerate and simplify migrations from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. The approach emphasizes a clean core migration of data, processes and systems, modular architecture, reduced manual remediation and faster outcomes. Kyndryl integrates SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Cloud ERP, SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX to support data harmonization, fit-gap, process optimization and AI-assisted governance.
Wayne State University and Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) announced a multi-year collaboration to create IntelliMake, a research hub and pilot-scale factory at Wayne State's Anderson College of Engineering.
The initiative will co-develop AI-driven manufacturing demos, agentic AI, digital twins, and cybersecurity workshops; build demonstration pods and a mock autonomous assembly line; and provide hands-on workforce training to address readiness gaps cited in Kyndryl's 2025 Readiness Report.
The project aims to position Detroit and Michigan in the national $10 trillion smart manufacturing opportunity.
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) on Jan 12, 2026 released the 2025 Retail Readiness Report showing retailers balancing AI and digital transformation with operational constraints across a $30 trillion global market. The report finds 48% of retail leaders upgraded IT and AI investments rose 33% year-over-year, while nearly 25% cite technical debt and ~one-third report mission-critical infrastructure at end-of-service. With >80% of retail sales in physical stores, the report emphasizes system unification, inventory precision, and governed agentic AI as priorities to achieve omnichannel readiness.
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) announced that Chief Human Resources Officer Maryjo Charbonnier will retire from the CHRO role on March 31, 2026 and will remain as an Executive Advisor through the end of August 2026. She will be succeeded by Mark Paulek, who becomes CHRO effective April 1, 2026. Paulek previously led HR for Kyndryl's commercial organization and helped design the company's human capital strategy since joining in 2022. The company emphasized succession planning, talent development, and continuity of leadership to support growth and AI-era priorities.
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) was named a Leader in both agentic AI and generative AI in the 2025 ISG Provider Lens global Insurance Services – Strategic Capabilities report dated December 16, 2025.
ISG assessed 28 providers across GenAI Development and Deployment Services and Agentic AI Development and Deployment Services. Kyndryl highlights its Agentic AI Framework, mission-critical systems experience, and work on an agentic AI-enabled actuarial solution that generates regulatory filings, supports compliance checks and embeds AI agents into end-to-end automated workflows.
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) launched a Quantum Safe Assessment service on Dec 11, 2025 to help enterprises identify cryptographic vulnerabilities and build roadmaps for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) adoption. The service creates a Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM), prioritizes high-risk systems such as payment gateways, customer databases, cloud and mainframes, and delivers a phased transformation roadmap toward crypto agility and quantum-resistant standards. It also integrates with Kyndryl's Zero Trust Adoption Framework to strengthen identity, endpoint, network and data protection. The announcement cites Kyndryl research showing low customer awareness of quantum risk.
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) on Nov 24, 2025 launched agentic AI mainframe services and an Agentic AI Framework to bring AI-enabled automation, orchestration and analytics to IBM z/OS environments. The offering integrates with Kyndryl Bridge and deploys IBM watsonx Assistant for Z to speed decision-making, reduce latency and address skills gaps.
The company's 2025 State of Mainframe Modernization Survey cites 88% AI adoption intent, 70% talent shortages, and projects $12.7B in cost savings plus $19.5B revenue uplift over three years.
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) announced a three-year renewal with Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Nov 20, 2025 to transform Vi's IT operations and cyber resilience.
Key deliverables include a unified cyber resilience framework (security governance, zero-touch services, data protection, IAM, security operations, incident recovery), a next-generation automated IT Ops delivery model, backup/storage/CDP transformation, and continued use of Kyndryl Bridge.
Operational metrics cited: >1,000 unique automations at Vi (reducing delivery event noise by 15%), and >15 million AI-enabled insights generated monthly by Kyndryl Bridge.
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) on November 19, 2025 announced Kyndryl Agentic AI Digital Trust, a set of services inside the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework to help enterprises govern, secure and scale agentic AI across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
The offering emphasizes a security-first control center for agent lifecycle governance, including discovery, testing, continuous policy enforcement, auditing, AI-MDR and proactive risk management. Kyndryl cited its 2025 Readiness Report showing 68% of organizations heavily invest in AI and 61% feel increased pressure to prove ROI.
Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) and Microsoft published the 2025 Global Sustainability Barometer Study showing integration-focused organizations embed sustainability into core operations and use IT and AI to drive measurable value. Key findings include: 78% of integration-focused organizations view IT as a key enabler of sustainability; 56% of IT teams now lead sustainability efforts (up from 38% in 2024); 59% report financial gains from sustainability investments; and 30% are piloting or deploying agentic AI for sustainability.
The study highlights regional and industry variation, with Europe leading AI integration for sustainability and energy, banking, and transport experimenting most with agentic AI.