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Kyndryl Launches Agentic AI Clean Field for SAP S/4HANA


Kyndryl Launches Agentic AI Clean Field for SAP S/4HANA
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  • January 22, 2026

Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, has launched an agentic AI-enabled Clean Field approach to accelerate and reduce the cost of SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migrations. The method creates a clean, adaptive digital foundation by leveraging agentic AI for code customization and remediation, enabling a simplified core migration while supporting modular, future-ready architectures.

Quick Intel

  • Kyndryl's Clean Field approach uses agentic AI, in collaboration with Nova Intelligence, to automate SAP code remediation and achieve clean core migrations from ECC to S/4HANA.
  • The solution minimizes technical debt, reduces manual effort, shortens timelines, and delivers cost efficiencies while enabling long-term innovation.
  • Integrates SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) with Databricks for trusted data foundations, training AI models, and scaling responsible generative AI use cases via SAP Joule.
  • Embeds agentic AI across SAP Cloud ERP journeys, from fit-gap analysis and data migration to post-go-live optimization for faster value realization.
  • Harnesses SAP Signavio's AI for process visibility, inefficiency detection, and streamlined discovery, modeling, and optimization to lower transformation risks.
  • Utilizes SAP LeanIX's AI-powered automation for data-driven planning, governance, and risk mitigation, accelerating agile transformations.
  • Builds on Kyndryl's RISE with SAP global delivery partner status and long-standing SAP alliance to drive AI-enhanced modernization.

"Enterprises can no longer afford SAP transformations that are slow, rigid or weighed down by legacy complexity," said Michael Bradshaw, Global Practice Leader for Applications, Data and AI at Kyndryl. "By combining our Clean Field approach and deep SAP expertise with agentic AI, we're giving customers a faster, more disciplined path to SAP S/4HANA—one that reduces technical debt, requires less manual effort, accelerates outcomes and creates a digital foundation built for long-term innovation."

Kyndryl's Clean Field method addresses common migration challenges by applying agentic AI to intelligently customize and remediate SAP code, resulting in cleaner data, processes, and systems. This enables organizations to adopt a more modular architecture that adapts to evolving business needs while minimizing disruptions and long-term maintenance costs. The approach is customizable to align with each customer's unique objectives, combining Kyndryl's IT modernization services with advanced AI capabilities.

Through its strategic alliance with SAP, Kyndryl integrates agentic AI across key solutions to support end-to-end transformations:

  • SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC): Harmonizes SAP and non-SAP data with Databricks integration to establish trusted foundations for generative AI and predictive insights using SAP Joule.
  • SAP Cloud ERP: Infuses agentic AI throughout the transformation lifecycle for real-time collaboration between finance, IT, and business teams.
  • SAP Signavio: Leverages AI to uncover process inefficiencies, deviations, and optimization opportunities for risk-reduced, high-impact migrations.
  • SAP LeanIX: Applies AI automation to streamline documentation, discovery, planning, and governance for agile, insight-led execution.

The announcement reinforces Kyndryl's commitment to helping enterprises modernize mission-critical systems efficiently in an increasingly AI-driven landscape.

 

About Kyndryl

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day.

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