Company Description
IBM, founded in 1911, is currently the world’s largest business and information technology company with $35B in IT Services, with industry/business offerings spanning the entire services value chain. IBM has 315,000 employees, 150,000 of whom are in the IBM Business Consulting Services Division located in 170 countries. In Fortune Magazine’s 2002 "Ten Most Admired Companies" list, IBM was ranked #1 in the U.S in the IT category. Business Ethics ranked IBM #1 in its list of "100 Best Corporate Citizens" in 2001. IBM’s strengths lie in its depth and breadth of resources, organizations, processes, and vision.
IBM provides information technology services that support integrated technology, strategic outsourcing, and business innovation. Our integrated technology services include systems integration and management, networking, consulting and web application development. Our strategic outsourcing services provide customers with application management, network operations, desktop / inventory management, and help desk support. In addition, IBM provides business innovation services which include advanced security and privacy services, disaster recovery, COTS package integration, web application, portal development and implementation, learning services, knowledge management and a full understanding of how commercial e-business practices can be utilized to effectively support the DODIIS community mission.
IBM, as the largest commercial R&D company, invests more than $5B a year on research and development. IBM’s IT research organization has more than 3,000 scientists and engineers working at eight labs in six countries. IBM Research is pursuing leading edge innovation in many areas such as data management, data mining, autonomic computing, and on demand strategies.
IBM is working on many levels to help customers reduce total cost of ownership. These include promoting open standards, outsourcing, e-utility, and leveraging experience and expertise through the use of 9 e-business Innovation Centers and the e-business Testing Center in Gaithersburg, Md. IBM is devoted to advancing open Internet standards and applications. IBM has more than 1000 developers devoted to XML and more than 1,500 developers devoted to Linux. IBM has nearly 4000 Java professionals working in 20 labs worldwide and has 110+ Java enabled products and solutions.
IBM is headquartered in Armonk, NY with regional offices throughout the world.
Visit our website at: http://www.ibm.com/us
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