EECS441 IBM Company Review

EECS 441 - Company ProfilePresented By James Kim

Sample Products

Financial Info

Financial Info

Company History

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Company History

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Watson◦ “An application of advanced Natural Language

Processing, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and Machine Learning technologies to the field of open domain question answering"

What’s HOT at the Company?

Brand Image Specialized storage systems, chips,

software, services Global reach of services, over 170 countries Patents

Secret Sauce

Jan. 10, 2013◦ IBM announced top U.S. patent recipient◦ 20th consecutive year topping the list◦ Record 6,478 patents in 2012

Analytics Big Data Cybersecurity Cognitive Systems

Interesting Story

Accenture Microsoft Apple Cisco Oracle VMware Dell Hewlett-Packard Company

Competition

Neither good nor bad Change in course Investments in services, cognitive

computing Surviving vs. Succeeding

Prediction

Questions?