Ibm Csc

IBM corporate service corps

INTRODUCTION

IBM (International Business Machines) is a multinational corporation headquartered in New York, United States. The company is the world's biggest technology company, also being the second most valuable brand. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

With over 407,000 employees worldwide, IBM is second largest and the second most profitable information technology and services employer in the world according to the Forbes 2000 list with sales of greater than 100 billion US dollars.

The company has scientists, engineers, consultants, and sales professionals in over 200 countries. IBM employees have earned five Nobel prizes, four Turing Awards, nine National Medals of technology, and five National Medals of Science.

The company has recently been applying several internal programs aimed to develops high-value technology . Extreme Blue was created in 1999 as an initiative to analyze emerging business needs and the technologies that can solve them. In 2007 IBM unveiled Project Big Green which consist of a re-direction of $1 billion per year across its businesses to increase energy efficiency. On November 2008, IBM’s CEO, Sam Palmisano, during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, outlined a new agenda for building a Smarter Planet. The initiative calls attention to how forward-thinking leaders in business, government and civil society around the world have the potential and responsibility to develop smarter systems to achieve economic growth, higher efficiency, sustainable development and help societies to progress.

Examples of smarter systems include smart electrical grids, water management systems, solutions to traffic congestion problems, greener buildings, and many others. These systems have been difficult to manage in the past because of their size...