IT COMPANIES IN INDIA – IBM INDIA
SOFTWARE COMPANIES IN INDIA – IBM INDIA
IBM (International Business Machines) India is the Indian subsidiary of IBM. It has facilities in Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Gurgaon, Noida, Chandigarh and Hyderabad. IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting firm headquartered in Armonk City in New York. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. As of September 2011, IBM is the second-largest publicly traded technology company in the world by market capitalization. And also it has undergone several organizational changes since its inception, acquiring companies like SPSS 2009 and PwC consulting 2002, spinning off companies like Lexmark 1991 and selling off product lines like ThinkPad to Lenovo (2005).
In 2003 and 2007, IBM’s head count in India has grown by almost 80%, from 9,000 in 2003 to nearly 74,000 in 2007. Since 2006, IBM has been the multinational with the largest number of employees in India. More than one quarter of IBM’s employees are from India and is expected to grow. It is expected that in 2011, IBM will recruit approximately 24,000 more employees taking it to a total of nearly 154,000 employees from India. IBM Global Services (now split to Business and Technical Services) was called the “jewel in the IBM crown” by the Aberdeen group in 2003. For worldwide IBM, this is the group that contributes to more than half its global revenues presently and growing at a healthy rate With half of global service employees to be located in India, IBM India’s importance for the global corporation can be easily fathomed.
IBM holds more patents than any other U.S.based technology company and has nine research laboratories worldwide. Its employees have garnered five Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, nine National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science. Famous inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the Universal Product Code (UPC), the financial swap, SABRE airline reservation system, DRAM, and Watson artificial intelligence.