IBM is a company's position in the world and what kind of company it is.

Ibm International Business Machines Corporation (IBM for short) has its own website in www.ibm.com.cn. Headquartered in Armonk, new york, the company was established in the United States 19 14. It is the largest multinational company in the information industry in the world. At present, it has more than 300,000 employees worldwide and its business covers 160 countries and regions. When the company was founded, its main business was commercial typewriters, and later it switched to word processors, and then computers and related services. IBM was founded by thomas watson Sr Later, under the leadership of his son thomas jr, the company started the computer age. The current CEO of IBM is, transliterated in, and his Chinese name is Peng. The current chairman of IBM China, namely IBM (International Business Machines Co., Ltd.) Greater China is Zhou, and Qian Daqun became CEO in early 2007. As a long-term leader in the computer industry, IBM has made the most remarkable achievements in mainframe/minicomputer and ThinkPad. The personal computer (PC) standard it founded is still in use and development. In addition, IBM also leads the industry in mainframes, supercomputers (mainly representing deep blue and blue genes), UNIX and servers. In terms of software, IBM Software Group has integrated five major software brands, including Lotus, WebSphere, DB2, Rational and Tivoli, all of which are leaders or strong competitors in the software industry in their respective aspects. After 99 years, the overall scale of Microsoft surpassed that of IBM software department. Up to now, IBM software department is also the second largest software entity in the world. IBM has also made great achievements in materials, chemistry, physics and other scientific fields. Hard disk technology was invented by IBM, and scanning tunneling microscope (STM), copper wire technology and atomic etching technology were also invented by IBM Research Institute. IBM still holds the position with the most patents in the world. Since 1993, IBM has been ranked first in national patent registration for 13 years. By 2002, IBM's R&D personnel had obtained a total of 22,358 patents, which was unprecedented, far exceeding the total number of patents obtained by 1 1 enterprises in the IT industry in the United States. These IT giants of 1 1 include: HP, Intel, Sun, Microsoft, Dell, etc. In 2005, IBM proposed 2946544. In 2003, IBM's total revenue was $8.9/kloc-0.0 billion, and it had 230,000 employees worldwide. In 2004, IBM's total revenue was $96.5 billion, and its global employees were 365,438+00,000. In 2005, IBM's total revenue was $965,438+065,438+0 billion (after the PC division was sold to Lenovo). IBM China includes: IBM China Development Center and IBM China Software Development Center CSDL /cdl/ IBM China Research Institute (formerly IBM China Research Center) CRL:/IBM/CRL The IBM China website cooperated with Hong Kong Cultural Communication Group in 2004. The IBM software part of the cash register to promote China CPU is divided into five parts: DB2, webshpere, Tivoli, Rational and Lotus. In February 2004, IBM sold its global PC and notebook business to Lenovo. Lenovo owns ThinkPad and ThinkCenter trademarks and can use the IBM brand within five years. -One of the reasons why people are respected is that they have been able to lead the industrial revolution many times in the course of nearly a hundred years, especially in the IT industry, and have worked hard to help customers succeed. In addition, the company has been in the forefront of the world's top 500. Most importantly, it is respected because IBM has always adhered to the "Watson Philosophy" in the history of nearly a hundred years: when 19 14 was established, thomas watson formulated a "code of conduct" for the company, which has always been remembered by everyone in the company. Any action and policy are directly affected by these three principles. "Watson's philosophy" has a great influence on the company. Mainly includes: L. Individuals must be respected. We must give our customers the best service possible. 3. Excellent work performance must be pursued. For example, from the website of IBM China Company, you can find the following words: "IBM China Company adheres to the core values of' achieving customers, innovation is the most important, honesty and responsibility' and leads China customers to the road of on-demand transformation." The content in quotation marks is the expression of Watson's philosophy on customer attitude.