Kyndryl completes acquisition of Skytap to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption
May 13, 2024•over 1 year ago
Acquiring Company
Kyndryl
Acquired Company
Skytap
Description
Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, has acquired privately held Skytap to expand its hybrid cloud services portfolio and help customers modernize mission-critical infrastructure platforms. Additionally, Kyndryl has entered into a definitive agreement to divest its Securities Industry Services business in Canada to Broadridge to enhance its focus on core growth areas.
M&A Insights
Based on deal dataIntegration timeline
70% of M&A integrations take 12-24 months to complete
Tech stack consolidation
83% of merged companies consolidate technology vendors within first year
Post-acquisition investment
Companies increase IT spending by 23% on average after acquisitions
Success factor
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