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  • Kyndryl India appointed as technology partner of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India

    Kyndryl India appointed as technology partner of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India

    Mumbai: Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) recently announced its exclusive collaboration with IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl, to elevate its IT and security transformation journey across HMSI’s manufacturing plants.

    Currently, Kyndryl manages infrastructure services for plant production applications, enterprise and dealer management systems for all the dealers.

    Bringing operational efficiency with an agile and improved customer service experience, the company’s renewed alliance with Kyndryl will improve infrastructure manageability and uptime through increased automation as well as enhance the company’s cybersecurity and resiliency.

    Further enhancing HMSI’s business applications and IT systems’ availability, the new partnership will integrate an on-demand disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) set-up for minimal outage and production loss during a crisis impacting HMSI’s primary data centre.

    Speaking on the association, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India managing director, president & CEO Atsushi Ogata said, “At HMSI, we are glad to announce our exclusive technological partnership with Kyndryl India. Their in-depth knowledge of HMSI’s business functions pillaring upon complex IT systems is what precisely makes them a trusted advisor for our operations in India. Moving forward, the new synergy will enable us with better business availability and operations predictability while infusing a more agile IT environment that serves our customers and partners better.”

    Sharing his thoughts on the partnership, Kyndryl India president Lingraju Sawkar said, “In an increasingly competitive ecosystem staying ahead of the curve and anticipating business and operational challenges is paramount. Kyndryl’s proven expertise in infrastructure management, automation, and cloud transformation, coupled with a deep understanding of HMSI’s critical operations allows us to anticipate and structure a resilient and agile framework for the future. We are excited to expand on our collaboration with HMSI as they further unlock the potential of true digital transformation within their India operations.”

    During a disaster, Kyndryl’s cloud resiliency orchestration tool will bring HMSI’s primary data centre to a fully operational state in a matter of seconds, and its resiliency architecture will span seismic zones for added flexibility to systems during a customer demand surge.

  • Infosys inks IT infrastructure deal with UK’s House of Fraser

    Infosys inks IT infrastructure deal with UK’s House of Fraser

    MUMBAI: Infosys has inked an IT infrastructure deal with UK’s retail chain House of Fraser.

     

    Infosys bagged a multi-year contract from the Sanpower Group China owned company, to transform its multichannel business and IT infrastructure.The agreement was signed in the presence of Sanpower Group chairman Yuan Yafei and Infosys CEO Dr Vishal Sikka.

     

    House of Fraser is among the leading retailers in the UK, and is aggressively working towards enhancing its multichannel business and expanding its global footprint. To achieve this objective, House of Fraser selected Infosys as its strategic partner to strengthen its multichannel business, and manage and transform its core IT infrastructure.

     

    This program will in-turn, provide end consumers a seamless shopping experience, and will drive operational efficiencies and quicker time to market.

     

    Through this engagement, House of Fraser will leverage Infosys’ expertise in the retail space, and have access to next-generation technologies such as digital and cloud. In addition, as a globally preferred partner for Sanpower Group, Infosys will work with House of Fraser as it taps into the fast growing fashion retail market in China; offering its extensive knowledge of local business nuances, access to specialized local talent pools and a collaborative multinational engagement framework.

     

    House of Fraser chairman Frank Slevin said, “This program will help us realize faster time to market as we adopt new and advanced technologies to enhance our multichannel business. The benefits from this program will also allow us to achieve our business goals as we go global. We look forward to building a long term strategic relationship with Infosys.”

     

    Infosys China CEO Rangarajan Vellamore added, “We are excited about this partnership with Sanpower Group and House of Fraser. This win reinforces our strategy to collaborate with large Chinese conglomerates going global. As a globally preferred partner for the Sanpower Group, we will offer new technologies in areas such as digital and cloud across its companies and House of Fraser as it transforms its business.”