ARMONK, N.Y., May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
and Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) today announced an agreement under
which IBM will deliver IT automation, machine learning and managed
infrastructure services designed to help Pitney Bowes transform and
embrace hybrid cloud computing to support its global business plan
and goals.
IBM is helping Pitney Bowes transform and embrace hybrid cloud
computing to support its global business plan and goals.
For over 100 years, Pitney Bowes has focused on innovating
and delivering technologies that remove the complexity of getting
commerce transactions precisely right. The company moves more than
222 million parcels and facilitates the sending of billions of mail
pieces each year and has tapped IBM to design and implement an
agile technology infrastructure that can enable greater
collaboration and integration between its business and IT
environments.
Under the agreement, IBM will manage core infrastructure domains
including servers, storage systems, end-user computing, and
networking for Pitney Bowes, while helping to keep critical
business systems running efficiently.
Pitney Bowes embarked on this technology transformation with IBM
to better serve its clients around the world – including 90 percent
of the Fortune 500 – who rely upon the accuracy and precision of
the company's solutions, analytics, and APIs in the areas of
ecommerce fulfillment, shipping and returns; cross-border
ecommerce; office mailing and shipping; presort services; and
financing.
"We have a strategic vision and roadmap to transform our
operations and enhance the way we deliver ecommerce, shipping,
mailing and financial services to end-users," said Joseph Schmitt, Senior Vice President, Chief
Information Officer of Pitney Bowes. "Working with IBM on this
hybrid cloud transformation can enable our business to become
dynamic and responsive to unexpected challenges and emerging
opportunities."
IBM Global Technology Services professionals will help Pitney
Bowes create and implement an agile IT infrastructure environment
and governance model by deploying automation, artificial
intelligence, advanced analytics, and hybrid cloud capabilities
designed to support, manage, and unleash the potential of its
on-premises and multicloud computing workloads.
"By utilizing our IT infrastructure knowledge, tools and
transformation techniques, we're prepared to help Pitney Bowes
bring its ambitious hybrid cloud vision to life," said Karen Bruno, Industrial Markets General Manager,
IBM Global Technology Services. "We will bring together people,
processes and solutions through an optimized managed services
approach that can enable Pitney Bowes to enhance its operations and
deliver new innovations to its customers."
IBM and Pitney Bowes signed their global hybrid cloud
infrastructure transformation agreement in 1Q 2021.
CONTACTS:
Chris Andrews
IBM
candrews@us.ibm.com
845-612-6142
John Spadafora
Pitney Bowes
518-708-3466
john.spadafora@pb.com
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