IBM

Also known as International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY), IBM Corp., 18M, International Business Machines Corporation, Big Blue, ibm.com

International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM (nicknamed Big Blue), is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. IBM is the largest industrial research organization in the world, with 19 research facilities across a dozen countries; for 29 consecutive years, from 1993 to 2021, it held the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business.

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IBM, also known as International Business Machines, is a company and funder established in 1911. The organization is active and is legally named INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION. It is located in the United States, with specific references to Armonk and North Castle in New York. The entity was recognized in the Sp 500 collection and the Dow Jones collection.

The company has 380000 employees. Its network infrastructure includes the IPv4 routing prefix 9.0.0.0/8 and MAC Address Block Large IDs 10005A, 5CF3FC, E41F13, and FCCF62. Additional identifiers include the public key fingerprint E34C 87DC 1980 9413 A984 5DBB AFC3 8F74 CAE9 CDD2, the grid code grid.410484.d, and the ISNI 0000 0004 0400 2468.

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, ROR, GLEIF, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Company.name: International Business Machines Corporation
Company.trade_name: IBM
Company.logo: IBM logo.svg
Company.logo_size: 170
Company.logo_caption: Logo since 1972, designed by Paul Rand
Company.image: IBM CHQ - Oct 2014.jpg
Company.image_caption: IBM CHQ in Armonk, New York, in 2014
Company.former_name: Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (1911–1924)
Company.type: Public
Company.area_served: 177 countries
Company.industry: Information technology
Company.products: AutomationRoboticsArtificial intelligenceCloud computingConsultingBlockchainComputer hardwareSoftwareQuantum computing
Company.revenue: (2025)
Company.operating_income: (2025)
Company.net_income: (2025)
Company.equity: (2025)
Company.num_employees: 264,300 (2025)
Company.founded: (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)Endicott, New York, U.S.

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Company

Jurisdiction: US-NY
Headquarters: NORTH CASTLE, US

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Research organization · ROR

Type: Company, Funder
Founded: 1911
Location: Armonk, United States
Also known as: International Business Machines
Status: Active

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GRID grid.410484.d · ISNI 0000 0004 0400 2468

Wikidata facts

Instance of: organization
Part of: S&P 100
Official name: International Business Machines Corporation
Country: United States
Founded by: Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Headquarters: Armonk
Owned by: State Street Corporation
CEO: Arvind Krishna
Chairperson: John Fellows Akers
Employees: 352600
Revenue: 62753000000
Stock exchange: Tokyo Stock Exchange
Creator: Paul Rand
Official website: www.ibm.com/de-de
Image: IBM Watson.PNG

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MAC Address Block Large ID: 0817F4
Commons category: IBM
owner of: IBM Cloud Video
topic's main category: Category:IBM
inception: 1911-06-16
organizational division: Watson
Commons gallery: IBM
member of: OpenPOWER Foundation
location of formation: Endicott
operating income: 5797000000
net profit: 6023000000
total assets: 155971000000
market capitalization: 282084000000
IPv4 routing prefix: 9.0.0.0/8
public key fingerprint: E34C 87DC 1980 9413 A984 5DBB AFC3 8F74 CAE9 CDD2
category for employees of the organization: Category:IBM employees
has works in the collection: TextielMuseum, Stedelijk museum Amsterdam
replaces: Computing Tabulating Recording Company
social media followers: 343000
short name: IBM
privacy policy URL: www.ibm.com/privacy
terms of service URL: www.ibm.com/de-de/legal
different from: IBM international chess tournament
official shop URL: logostore-globalid.com

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Encyclopedic overview

33 sections

Contents

History
1910s–1950s
World War 2
1960s–1980s
1990s–2000s
2010s–present
Corporate affairs
Business trends
Board and shareholders
Headquarters and offices
Products
Hardware
Mainframe computers
Microprocessors
Quantum computing
Software
Cloud services
Artificial intelligence
Consulting
Research
Patents
Brand and reputation
People and culture
Employees
Workplace culture
Leadership
President
Chairman of the Board
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems. It was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924 and soon became the leading manufacturer of punch-card tabulating systems. During the 1960s and 1970s, the IBM mainframe, exemplified by the System/360 and its successors, was the world's dominant computing platform, with the company producing 80 percent of computers in the U.S. and 70 percent of computers worldwide. Embracing both business and scientific computing, System/360 was the first family of computers designed to cover a complete range of applications from small to large.

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