What is IBM ? What are they doing ? What sort of strategies they use in Implementing Information Systems (IS). IBM DeveloperWorks is Platform to gather skills and share among help each other. It's a social gathering of IT developers.

1. IBM
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES
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2. WHAT IBM DOES?
• Founded in 1911 as Computing Tabulating Recording
Company
• Re-named as IBM in 1924
• Manufactures and markets computer Hardware and
Software.
• Offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services
(mainframe computers to nanotechnology).
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3. IBM Operational areas.
• Global Technology Services (GTS)
• . GTS primarily provides IT infrastructure services and business process services.
• Global Business Services (GBS)
• Software
• Systems and Technology
• Global Financing
(Source: Reuters)
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4. IBM Rankings.
• In 2014, IBM was ranked #24 among the Top 100 global
companies by market capitalisation.
(source: Bloomberg and PwC analysis)
• Ranked #5 World’s Most Valuable Brands
(source: Forbes)
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5. IBM Web Portal
• In 1999, Dirk Nicole together with handful of IBM developers (IBM programmers, web UI
experts, editors, and artists ) made the web portal.
• Mission was to find the smartest, coolest, edgiest subject matter experts inside and
outside of IBM and help them share their code and ideas with other developers.
• Earlier It covered 7 open technologies (including Java, open source, and web
architecture).
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6. IBM DeveloperWorks
• It is a Social Network for IT developers
• Brings resources and knowledge to share ideas around innovation
• It has more than 30,000 articles regarding innovation and new
technologies
• The most used resource network with IT developer community
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7. How IBM DeveloperWorks helpful
• Skills from the industry is bought to one place in order to find solutions for
business problems in innovative way
• A pathway for students to grow and develop themselves
• Builds up carrier opportunities
• Offering skills and insights into carriers
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