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Analyst community recognizes IBM leadership

December 08, 2019 •

IBM

For more than a century IBM has been dedicated to every client's success and to creating innovations that matter for the world. Whether it is helping our clients optimize their IT environments today, prepare for the future, deliver open platforms for the world to access and help solve the most challenging of society's problems, IBM’s focus is on excellence and trust in technology.  IBM leads in innovation and invests extensively in its own talent and R&D, with 9,088 patents granted in 2018. For the past 26 consecutive years, IBM has been the world's number one patent producer.

The analyst community has acknowledged IBM leadership in several critical technology areas such as AI, security, cloud, blockchain and IT services. See below for some examples and access to analyst reports:

AI

Insight engines combine search with AI to deliver actionable insights derived from the full spectrum of content and data sourced within and external to the enterprise. Vendors in this marketplace have mature solutions and represent a cost-effective and systemic approach to improving the development and consumption of knowledge across the enterprise.

Gartner recognized IBM as a Magic Quadrant leader for insight engines.

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Security

As vendors approach data security in a holistic way, improved integrations and a range of granular controls that don't impede employee productivity will dictate which providers will lead the pack. Vendors that can provide data controls to support a Zero Trust approach position themselves to successfully deliver integrated data security to their customers. Forrester research identified IBM as a leader in data security.

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Cloud

Gartner evaluated 20 vendors in North America for their ability to deliver data center outsourcing and hybrid infrastructure managed services, including cloud migration services. IBM was identified as the Magic Quadrant leader.

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Blockchain

GlobalData awards top ratings to IBM for its early investment and breadth of portfolio for supporting highly scalable and distributed blockchain networks.

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IT services

Digital strategy addresses enterprise costs—driving efficiency, increasing profitability, and reducing costs, and growth—increasing revenue, strengthening cash flow, and building the organization's brand. IDC Marketscape’s vendor assessment positioned IBM as a leader, helping clients reinvent themselves by designing executable business strategies and uses multidisciplinary teams assembled from across IBM,

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About IBM

In business for more than 100 years, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a widely held, publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Originally called the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, it was incorporated in the State of New York in 1911 and manufactured products ranging from commercial scale and industrial time recording equipment to tabulators and punched cards. It was renamed International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1924.

IBM is one of the world's largest information technology companies, operating in over 175 countries with over 264,300 full-time employees. The company creates value for clients by providing integrated solutions and products that help them transform their businesses and engage with their customers and employees in new ways. These solutions draw from an industry-leading portfolio of consulting and IT implementation services, cloud, digital, and cognitive offerings, and enterprise systems and software, all bolstered by one of the world's leading research organizations.

IBM Technology is addressing the hybrid cloud and AI opportunity with a platform-centric approach, focused on providing client value through a combination of technology and business expertise. We provide integrated solutions and products that leverage data, information technology, deep expertise in industries and business processes, with trust and security and a broad ecosystem of partners and alliances. Our hybrid cloud platform and AI technology and services capabilities support clients' digital transformations and help them engage with their customers and employees in new ways. These solutions draw from an industry-leading portfolio of capabilities in software, consulting services, and a deep incumbency in mission-critical systems, all bolstered by one of the world's leading research organizations.

IBM Consulting delivers business transformation, technology consulting, and application operations by leveraging hybrid cloud and AI technologies from IBM, along with our ecosystem partners. To support our hybrid cloud strategy, we built up the Red Hat business to over $2.5 billion. We are pursuing a similar approach for our AI strategy with over 16,000 accredited consultants. We have also scaled our focus on the ecosystem to create multi-billion-dollar partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, and SAP. Our consulting capabilities help clients to realize value from their digital transformations, for example, a global provider of business decisioning data and analytics is leveraging watsonx for a procurement solution to improve savings, reduce time, and mitigate risk.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.ibm.com.

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