IBM

The company operates a diversified enterprise technology and services model. It develops and sells cloud infrastructure and platform services, containerised software stacks for application and data modernisation, integration platforms, storage services and AI tooling, which are delivered primarily as cloud services or software subscriptions. It complements these with consulting and professional services to help customers design, migrate and operate hybrid and multicloud environments, and to implement AI, automation and modern integration patterns.

Value creation is based on providing secure, compliant and interoperable platforms for mission-critical and regulated workloads, leveraging open-source ecosystems (for example, container orchestration and enterprise Linux) and pre-integrated software suites to reduce implementation risk and time for large organisations. Revenue is further supported by long-term service engagements, support contracts and, to a lesser extent, hardware infrastructure and related financing for customers with on-premise or hybrid deployment needs.

International Business Machines Corporation is a US-based global technology and services company providing cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, artificial intelligence platforms and consulting services. Its offerings include a public and hybrid cloud platform, containerised software suites for application modernisation, enterprise AI tooling and data platforms, as well as integration, storage and virtualisation solutions, often built on or integrated with open-source technologies.

The company generates revenue from software subscriptions, usage-based cloud services, long-term enterprise and government contracts for consulting and managed services, and hardware and related financing. Customers are primarily large enterprises and public sector organisations that require hybrid and multicloud infrastructure, data and AI platforms, and expert services for modernising and operating mission-critical and regulated workloads.