The company is headquartered in Armonk, New York. With offices in more than 170 countries, IBM is the technology and transformation partner for developing IT solutions together with companies, public clients and non-profit organisations to meet their challenges.

The solution portfolio ranges from supercomputers and software to services including consulting and financing. IBM’s core objective is to support companies of all sizes in the digital transformation of their business models and to make the opportunities of digitalisation available to them. However, digitisation is only the prerequisite for higher benefits; various other initiatives must be added in order to achieve real business results: Artificial intelligence/business analytics, cloud computing, security, leveraging the opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technologies are among them. These strategic fields form the basis of IBM’s continuously expanding solutions portfolio as well as its ongoing transformation into a cognitive solutions and cloud platform provider. In globally established teams and in cooperation with business partners, IBM supports clients of the most varied sizes in projects, even across national borders, and at the same time develops individual and flexibly financeable solutions.

Since its foundation in 1911, IBM has repeatedly redefined itself and has risen to become one of the strongest brands in the world through innovations that go far beyond technologies. Every year, the company invests more than six billion US dollars in research and development. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH in Böblingen is one of IBM’s largest technology centres worldwide.