International Business Machines Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation Overview

Company Headquarters: US

Founded: 1911

Workforce: ~2,88,300

Company Working: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a technology company. The Company segments include Cloud & Cognitive Software, Global Business Services (GBS), Systems and Global Financing. The Cloud & Cognitive Software Solutions segment delivers integrated and secure cloud, data and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to its clients. It comprises three business areas: cognitive applications, cloud & data platforms, and transaction processing platforms. The GBS segment provides consulting, business process and application management services. The Global Financing segment is engaged in financing, which is primarily conducted through IBM Credit LLC, and remanufacturing and remarketing. The Systems segment provides clients with infrastructure platforms to help meet the requirements of hybrid multi-cloud and enterprise AI workloads. It also provides telco consulting services and solutions to help communications service providers (CSP) and media on multiple cloud platforms. Geographically, the company classifies its operations into three segments, namely, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East & Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

Strategy

IBM primarily aims to increase its business productivity by building partnerships with tech giants and exploring the untapped market as a part of its inorganic growth strategy. It mainly focuses on innovation with constant reinvention and transformations and aims to provide specific and customizable solutions as per the client's needs. It also focuses on enhancing cognitive solutions and software solutions simultaneously to offer cloud applications and offer new levels of innovations.

Company Snapshot

$55.18M

Revenue

288,300

Employees

1911

Founded

US

Headquarters

SWOT Analysis

Strengths

Extensive regional presence and R&D locations worldwide
Large and well-trained workforce
High customer satisfaction
Diversified business

Weaknesses

Fluctuating financial performance
Concentrate primarily on large enterprises

Opportunities

Demand for innovative and differentiated solutions
Mergers & acquisitions, enabling innovation and improvement of its market position

Threats

Stringent regulatory regulations
Increasing competition in the market

Key Developments

Date	Approach	Development
January 2022	Acquisition	IBM and Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm, signed a definitive agreement under which Francisco Partners will acquire healthcare data and analytics assets from IBM that are currently part of the Watson Health business. This acquisition will help Francisco Partners provide innovative products and solutions to the healthcare ecosystem.
May 2023	Launch	IBM launched IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh; a SaaS product helps organisations manage their hybrid multicloud architecture. IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh is intended to streamline the process, administration, and observability of application connectivity between public and private clouds, allowing modern businesses to efficiently manage their systems across hybrid multi-cloud and diverse environments.
June 2022	Collaboration	The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) collaborated with IBM to reduce the digital skills gap by providing digital learning to youth and women in the framework of the UNCDF's Digital Futures project. IBM helps to execute Digital Futures by offering digital and workforce skills training to schools and job seekers through the IBM SkillsBuild project.
June 2021	Agreement	Ssquad inks a multimillion-dollar agreement with IBM to supply digital workplace solutions. IBM employs Ssquad's services to offer infrastructure support to one of its important retail clients as part of the seven-year agreement. Ssquad offers digital workplace and infrastructure support services to an unnamed IBM customer as part of the agreement.

Product Offering

International Business Machines Corporation
- Healthcare Big Data Analytics
- Public Cloud Market
- Business Process Automation

Financial Performance

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