Strategic Customer Program - Customer Stories 2026

Kyndryl - RISE

“Customer Zero”

Published in 2024/25

Client Synopsis

What did they do?

Why did they do it?

• Implementation of a consistent and state-of-the-art SAP cloud strategy consisting of S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, MDG and GRC in PCE as a supplement to SAP SaaS solutions for Lead-To-Cash and Source-To-Pay • Kyndryl wanted to strengthen the partnership with SAP • Kyndryl saw itself as the “Customer Zero” to move its current 4,000+ SAP customers towards RISE based on its own migration experience

• Initial implementation of 375 legacy solutions acquired from IBM with S/4HANA on-prem on Azure and SAP Public Cloud Solutions • Go-live after 18 months in 66 countries and for 90k employees • Reorientation of Kyndryl’s GTM led to decision to move to RISE • In 2024, Kyndryl switched to RISE and will use SAP Products exclusively from the cloud

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Kyndryl Deutschland GmbH

2021 Spin-Off of IBM

• The world's largest provider of IT infrastructure services • Revenue (FY’24): $16,052m • EBIT (FY’24): $2,367m

How SAP solved a problem for the customer?

3 things that helped drive the strategy

Industry

Professional Services

• Kyndryl wanted to become a RISE partner to provide SAP® services for the delivery of SAP S/4HANA® Cloud Private Edition • Target processes of KD’s RISE transformation were documented by Kyndryl using SAP Signavio. • The new IT architecture got documented in LeanIX

Strong partner ecosystem

• Kyndryl as RISE with SAP partner • Enable KyndrylsGotoMarket Organization

Region

MEE

MP Name

Matthias Ledwon

The team involved: ( roles / names) • Oliver Grandpierre (IAE)

Links to relevant documents • https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en/about- us/news/2024/07/sap-s4hana-cloud-private- edition

Reference: Y/N • No, but Kyndryl is in the application phase for becoming a reference customer.

MP: Yes

• Marc Illbruck (SAE) • Alex Vetter (RISE EA)

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