The full form of IBM is International Business Machines.

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) provides computer solutions. The Company offers application, technology consulting and support, process design and operations, cloud, digital workplace, and network services, as well as business resiliency, strategy, and design solutions. IBM serves clients worldwide.

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a technology company. The Company operates through five segments: Cognitive Solutions, Global Business Services (GBS), Technology Services & Cloud Platforms, Systems and Global Financing. The Cognitive Solutions segment delivers a spectrum of capabilities, from descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics to cognitive systems. Cognitive Solutions includes Watson, a cognitive computing platform that has the ability to interact in natural language, process big data, and learn from interactions with people and computers. The GBS segment provides clients with consulting, application management services and global process services. The Technology Services & Cloud Platforms segment provides information technology infrastructure services. The Systems segment provides clients with infrastructure technologies. The Global Financing segment includes client financing, commercial financing, and remanufacturing and remarketing.

IBM has been known through most of its recent history as the world’s largest computer company; with over 350,000 employees worldwide, it is the largest information technology employer in the world. It is also the most profitable, but in revenues it fell to second place behind Hewlett Packard in 2007. IBM holds more patents than any other U.S. based technology company.^[2] It has engineers and consultants in over 170 countries and IBM Research has eight laboratories worldwide.^[3] IBM employees have earned three Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, five National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science.^[4] As a chipmaker, IBM is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders.

IBM created the IBM personal computer in 1981, which launched a revolution in personal computers being adopted by businesses as well as homes, and whose standard came to be adopted by other major manufacturers like Dell and Hewlett-Packard.