International Business Machines Corporation
Founded in 1888, the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American computer technology corporation and one of the leading and largest in the industry. The company strives to lead in the invention, development, and manufacture the industry’s most advanced information technologies, that include software, storage systems, computer systems, and microelectronics. The International Business Machines Corporation takes these advance technologies and turns them into value for customers through their professional solutions, services and consulting businesses all over the globe.
International Business Machines Corporation manufactures and sells software, computer hardware, infrastructure services, consulting services, and hosting services in a variety of areas from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. This company has nearly three hundred thirty thousand employees all over the globe and revenues of ninety one billion dollars yearly as of 2005. It is the biggest information technology company in the world and holds more patents than any other company in the industry of technology.
The past years, revenues from services and consulting have been better than those from manufacturing, and notably IBM has also been steadily increasing its workforce in developing countries such as IBM India and cutting back in the US and Europe. The International Business Machines Corporation has consultants and engineers in over one hundred seventy countries, and having eight laboratories for IBM Research all located in the Northern Hemisphere, five of which are outside the US. Employees of IBM have earned five National Medal of Science, five Nobel Prizes, five National Medals of Technology, and four Turing Awards.
IBM is among the top twenty Semiconductor Sales Leaders worldwide. Blue Eyes is the given name of a human recognition venture started by IBM allowing people to interact in a more natural manner with computers. The Blue Eyes technology aims to allow devices to recognize and use natural input such as facial expressions. The scroll mice and other input devices that sense the user’s pulse, monitor facial expressions, and movements of eyelids, are the initial developments of this project.
International Business Machines Corporation’s business operation includes hardware such as servers, storage, personal systems, printing systems, and retail solutions; software which connects operating systems, business processes, and applications impeccably; services that includes comprehensive IT services integrating with business insight to reduce costs, assert competitive advantage, and improve productivity; financing companies selling or acquiring IT related products and services; research on innovative technologies that produce leading-edge solutions; technology in developing, marketing, and delivering leading chip technologies and services.
The International Business Machines Corporation also puts tremendous efforts to promote workforce diversity and equal opportunity. IBM became the first ever major company in the world to not use genetic information in its employment decisions on October 10, 2005, a few months after IBM announced its support of the National Geographic’s Genographic Project.
