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IBM Corporation Today

One of the most recognised names in business, IBM, world's leading information technology company, is the world's largest consulting services organisation.

IBM takes its breadth and depth of insight on issues, processes and operations across a variety of industries, and invents and applies technology and services to help solve its clients' most important business and competitive problems.

Some facts and figures:
 

The 8th largest corporation in the world

Serving customers in 170 countries worldwide

Headquartered in Armonk, NY

Year end 2007, IBM reported: 

• $98.78 billion in revenue
• $10.4 billion in net income
• $120.4 billion total assets

More than 380,000 employees worldwide

More than 600,000 stockholders of record

IBM vision of the future

In IBM view, the future of business is being shaped by the forces of global integration and innovation. They are foundational and intimately related to one another. IBM is a globally integrated enterprise: a new institutional form that shapes its strategy, management and operations globally, based on economics, expertise and open business environments. It is optimized for innovation in a worldwide economy and society that are increasingly integrated and specialized. IBM strategic moves over the past several years—from divestitures and acquisitions, to areas of focus for innovation, to the transformation of its core lines of business—have been shaped by this vision:

Offering enterprises in the global economy innovative, high-value solutions based on IBM ability to integrate technology and business model innovation to deliver measurable results for IBM and its clients;

Leading in the delivery of business value by providing business and information technology consulting and implementation services; building, running and maintaining cross-industry and industry-specific business process services; leveraging leadership technology and engineering services; and accelerating increased business value through Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Information on Demand;

Leading in the delivery of advanced infrastructure through enterprise SOA and infrastructure software and services; increased share leadership in servers; driving to leadership in storage; and leading the transition to standardized services offerings;

Making IBM the premier Globally Integrated Enterprise—lowering costs and increasing effectiveness by integrating the company’s decision making at the point of client contact (“lowering IBM center of gravity”); moving work to where it can best be performed; focusing IBM resources to create the greatest value; and excelling in business collaboration.

IBM Organization and Global Business Services

The IBM organization is currently structured into 5 Geos (IOTs) worldwide covering all business lines in each one. Each IOT is divided into Markets (IMTs), Spain is assigned to the IMT SPIG (Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel) inside of Europe Southwest IOT, both headquarters of IOT and IMT are seeded in Madrid.

The IBM organization consists of the following lines of business: 

1. Services
2. Technology
3. Hardware
4. Research

On top of that, Sales & Distribution is responsible for offering the full range of services and products to our customers.

With more than 50% share of total revenues in 2007, IBM Global Services is by far the largest Business Unit within IBM.

The IBM Global Services line of business provides clients a full-service suite of integrated solutions – from strategy through implementation and operation. Our partnership with colleagues throughout IBM enables our clients to benefit from the innovative skills, investments, and research and development from the entire IBM organization.

IBM makes substantial investments in technology and business research ($5 billion dollar in 2005). Services are one of the prime focuses of our research effort: the IBM Institute for Business value capitalizes on the experience, network and information available within our globally integrated service company.

Inside IBM Global Services and specially in GBS, Global Integrated Delivery plays a significant role as key services we can offer to IBM’s customers. According to that investments in IBM are located to improve services to our customers.