Dear IBM Investor:
The businesses of the world are changing the way they work. We have prepared your company for this moment.
This is smart at work.
It’s a business remaking itself on platforms infused with digital intelligence. An enterprise whose operations and processes are designed to learn with intelligent systems. A company of experts whose knowledge is augmented by systems that learn.
This is smarter business—a new era, brought to the world by a new IBM.
IBM Cloud
The platform for smarter businesses
Many types of clouds exist, but only the IBM Cloud is built for the enterprise, is able to handle all kinds of data and applications, and provides seamless integration of artificial intelligence, world-leading security and the ability to evolve over time.
To support innovation, the public cloud allows businesses to quickly create, deploy and manage new cloud-native apps; they can also easily isolate specific computing workloads to ensure performance and security. IBM’s private cloud offerings let leading enterprises re-architect critical applications for the cloud, while maintaining regulatory compliance and security on their own premises.
IBMers deliver the IBM Cloud’s broad array of services and expertise.
They help the world’s smarter businesses transform their processes, assimilate new technologies and capabilities, and pivot quickly to new market opportunities.
AI to surface new insights and augment decision-making
Vivian Lee,
IBM Watson Development
Cloud-based services to manage IT complexity and capitalize on the speed of innovation
Twannia Arnold,
Global Technology Services
Security to help protect all data and ensure regulatory compliance
Cameron Will,
IBM Security
Data Science Experience to help data scientists learn, create and collaborate in a single workspace
Armand Ruiz Gabernet,
Watson Machine Learning
The Internet of Things to capture data and insights from the physical world
Lisa Seacat DeLuca,
IBM Watson IoT
NVIDIA GPUs to boost artificial intelligence and deep-learning workloads
Glen Wiedemeier,
IBM Systems
Video streaming to deliver high-quality content to audiences of any size, anywhere
Arpad Kun,
IBM Cloud Video
Quantum computing to tackle business and scientific problems that are intractable with classical computers
Jerry Chow,
IBM Research
Blockchain to digitize transactions through a highly secured, shared and replicated ledger
Noi Sukaviriya,
IBM Blockchain Solutions
VMware implementation to easily deploy workloads from on-premises to the cloud
Camilla Sharpe,
Global Technology Services
SAP implementation to bring optimized business operations to the cloud
Bridget Jones,
Global Business Services
Workday implementation for workforce insight and HR management
Mickey Patel,
Global Business Services
Storage to provide consistent, highly secure and fast data delivery
Sam Werner,
IBM Systems
Developer tools to rapidly build, deploy and manage cloud services
Remko De Knikker,
IBM Industry Platforms
A single, integrated architecture for all the needs of smarter businesses
IBM Cloud is the most flexible and intelligent cloud for business—a fully managed, unified platform built on secure containers across public and private clouds, with 170+ services for developers to build, deploy and manage cloud-native applications, as well as the capacity to easily integrate new products and offerings.
z14 pervasively encrypts data at scale, all the time.
The z14, the world’s most powerful transaction system, is the first that can encrypt every piece of data at the silicon level, without requiring changes to applications or downtime. Open and connected in the cloud, the z14 is capable of running 12.5 billion fully encrypted transactions per day.
POWER9 is built for data-intensive workloads, including AI and scientific discovery.
POWER9 systems and software cut deep learning training times by at least 4x, unleashing mission-critical insights from massive data sets. POWER9 servers with NVIDIA GPUs substantially boost AI accuracy and accelerate the performance of AI frameworks.
Quantum computing will solve the previously unsolvable.
Quantum computers encode information in quantum bits, or qubits, which can represent tremendous amounts of data, and can interact with one another in ways classical bit-based computers cannot. They may help solve problems that require exploring exponential possibilities—like drug discovery and financial risk optimization. Available via the IBM Cloud, the IBM Q Experience is being used by 75,000+ early adopters who are exploring its implications for science and business.
IBM Cloud Private runs on a company’s own infrastructure.
This scalable cloud platform offers the benefits of the public cloud but gives customers the power to address proprietary data, regulatory requirements and security threats on-premises.
IBM Services and Solutions
Making smarter real, industry by industry
The leading businesses and institutions of the world are going on offense, moving from the disrupted to the disruptors. To do so, they rely on the deep industry and technology expertise of IBM Services and solutions professionals and consultants around the world. These IBMers—experts in industries ranging from healthcare, to financial services, to retail and more—help organizations transform at scale and become smarter.
IBM Watson
Empowering professionals
with AI
IBM Watson’s enterprise-strength artificial intelligence is transforming the way people work in nearly every industry. It helps organizations derive insight from complex and unstructured information. And it allows professionals to scale their expertise and focus their efforts on higher-value work.
A smarter future does not belong to the few. It belongs to all of us.
The coming era offers vast new opportunities to change the way the world works—but it will take more than technology and more than business. At IBM we are working to build new levels of trust and new forms of collaboration across all sectors of society.
Gabriel Rosa, a 2015 graduate of P‑TECH, now works in IBM’s Digital Business Group, following an internship guided by Maria Arbusto, who still acts as his mentor.
Gabriel Rosa (left), Front-End Engineer, and Maria Arbusto, Director, Marketing
Data and AI: Only an economy where data is protected will produce a society where data is trusted. In 2017, IBM issued principles for AI and for Data Responsibility, ensuring that wherever our cognitive technology is used, we will be transparent about how it was trained and clear about who owns its data and insights.
Jobs: To build the “new collar” skills required for the future of work, we are pioneering new models of education, including P‑TECH, a six-year high school and community college program that enables students to earn an associate degree. From its roots in 2010 with one school in Brooklyn, New York, P‑TECH is on track to serve more than 60,000 students on four continents, and build upon partnerships with more than 430 other companies.
Workforce inclusion: New technology can lift everyone up—and it must. We have led in inclusion for more than a century, hiring our first women and African American employees in 1899. And in 2005, IBM became the first company to protect employees’ genetics privacy. We are committed to extending that legacy into the future.
