IBM generated over 62 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2024, an increase of around 1 billion U.S. dollars on the previous year. The firm's yearly revenue has trended downward over the past decade, having previously exceeded the 100 billion U.S. dollar mark. Despite this, the firm remains one of the most valuable technology brands in the world behind the likes of Apple ,Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. IBM’s response to a shifting marketA tech giant since the nineties, IBM has faced struggles adjusting to changes in the marketplace. Recently the company has focused on what it terms “strategic imperatives”: getting rid of low-margin businesses and investing in high-margin businesses. At the end of 2018, for example, IBM sold IBM WebSphere Commerce to HCL Technologies for 1.8 billion U.S. dollars. IBM is still very profitable, although not at the level as between 2006 and 2012. Reflecting the changing demands of digital transformation, the largest source of IBM’s revenue for fiscal year 2020 now comes from its technology services and cloud platforms business segment, which specializes in helping organizations integrate their traditional infrastructure into a multicloud environment.

IBM East Europe/Asia Ltd., which represents IBM in Russia, earned around ** million Russian rubles in 2023, having significantly decreased its revenue from the previous year. Over the observed period, the highest revenue of the company in Russia was recorded at approximately **** billion Russian rubles in 2015.

This statistic shows the revenue of IBM from the public cloud market, from the first half of 2014 to the first half of 2015. In the first half of 2015, IBM generated *** billion U.S. dollars of revenue from the public cloud market.

In 2022, IBM's revenue from High Performance Computing (HPC) servers amounted to 505 million U.S. dollars, an increase of over 40 million U.S. dollars compared to the previous year. The company's HPC revenue consistently produced billions of U.S. dollars in revenue until 2015, when the company reported some 461 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from HPC servers. The drop in IBM’s revenue from this segment between 2014 and 2015 could be attributed to the company’s decision to stop the production of System x's line of x86 servers and sell the business to Lenovo.

The German-based enterprise software company SAP SE is one of the leading companies in the corporate technology world. In 2024, SAP's global revenue amounted to ** billion euros. For many years, the company has generated multibillion dollar revenues on a quarterly basis. According to the company's financial reports, the largest share of corporate revenue stems from cloud and software sales, which accounted for over ** billion euros of their revenue in 2023. SAP is among the top ten most valuable German brands, competing with brands like Mercedes-Benz and BMW. SAP: A Global Leader in Technology As of 2023, SAP employed well over 100 thousand people worldwide, most working in research and development. That year, R&D expenditure came to * billion euros. The next largest department in terms of employees was the sales and marketing division, the strength of which is apparent from the company's continued recognition as one of the most valuable technology brands worldwide. Since 2014, SAP has partnerships with IBM and Microsoft. IBM provides the infrastructure service to support SAP's cloud software, and Microsoft cooperates with SAP to provide tools for data visualization and mobile applications.

This statistic shows the revenues from the leading big data vendors from 2014 to 2017. In 2017, IBM generated around **** billion U.S. dollars worth of revenue through big data services, software and hardware.

This graph displays the top 15 software vendors worldwide in 2014, based on their revenue from software sales in that year. Microsoft ranked first, with revenue of over ** billion U.S. dollars, followed by Oracle (**** billion) and IBM (**** billion). The German company SAP recorded revenue of over ** billion U.S. dollars.

In the first quarter of 2025, AWS generated cloud computing and hosting revenues of approximately 29 billion U.S. dollars. Amazon Services Amazon is the one of the leading online retailers worldwide and the leading e-retailer in the United States. In 2024, net sales amounted to over 574 billion U.S. dollars, up from 514 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer of books, clothing, electronics, music, and many other consumer products. The company is also the producer of the world’s most famous e-book reader, the Amazon Kindle. The vast majority of Amazon’s revenues are generated through the sales of electronics and other products, followed by third-party seller services and AWS. Although primarily active in the B2C market, Amazon also enables third-party sellers to trade their products as well as providing technology infrastructure services (Amazon Web Services, AWS) to businesses. As of the second quarter of 2024, more than half of paid units were sold by third-party sellers. Amazon Web Services includes cloud computing and hosting services, which is a growing sector of online enterprise services. AWS is one of the most popular public cloud platform and infrastructure services worldwide, with 76 percent of respondents from a global survey indicating that they were already running apps on the platform. Other popular cloud services providers include Microsoft with Azure, Google, Oracle, and IBM.

In 2023, American tech company IBM employed around 282 thousand people worldwide. This was a decrease of over six thousand employees on 2022, though remained significantly fewer than a decade prior, when the firm employed over 400 thousand people. IBM saw its global revenue decline over the ten year period following 2011. IBM’s history IBM, the common name of International Business Machines Corporation, is one of the largest technology and consulting companies in the world. Founded in 1911, the company is headquartered in Armonk, New York. The company's business segments include the "Global Technology Services" segment, where IBM provides comprehensive IT infrastructure and platform services, as well as the "Global Business Services" segment which provides clients with consulting, business process, and application management services, specializing in AI workflows and applications for hybrid cloud environments. IBM's innovations IBM is responsible for some of the most groundbreaking inventions in the technology industry: the automated teller machine (ATM), the hard disk drive (HDD), the Universal Product Code (UPC), and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The company continues to innovate, ranking first among companies with the most U.S. patents granted and a leading owner of machine learning and AI patents. Alongside this, IBM has committed itself to environmental leadership, addressing climate change, energy efficiency, product design, and the use of materials.

This statistic shows the revenue of the top 10 talent acquisition software vendors in the years 2014 and 2015. The revenue of LinkedIn, the largest vendor in the field, was *** million U.S. dollars in 2015, and the revenue of IBM in the same year was *** million U.S. dollars.

With a market capitalization of 3.12 trillion U.S. dollars as of May 2024, Microsoft was the world’s largest company that year. Rounding out the top five were some of the world’s most recognizable brands: Apple, NVIDIA, Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Amazon. Saudi Aramco led the ranking of the world's most profitable companies in 2023, with a pre-tax income of nearly 250 billion U.S. dollars. How are market value and market capitalization determined? Market value and market capitalization are two terms frequently used – and confused - when discussing the profitability and viability of companies. Strictly speaking, market capitalization (or market cap) is the worth of a company based on the total value of all their shares; an important metric when determining the comparative value of companies for trading opportunities. Accordingly, many stock exchanges such as the New York or London Stock Exchange release market capitalization data on their listed companies. On the other hand, market value technically refers to what a company is worth in a much broader context. It is determined by multiple factors, including profitability, corporate debt, and the market environment as a whole. In this sense it aims to estimate the overall value of a company, with share price only being one element. Market value is therefore useful for determining whether a company’s shares are over- or undervalued, and in arriving at a price if the company is to be sold. Such valuations are generally made on a case-by-case basis though, and not regularly reported. For this reason, market capitalization is often reported as market value. What are the top companies in the world? The answer to this question depends on the metric used. Although the largest company by market capitalization, Microsoft's global revenue did not manage to crack the top 20 companies. Rather, American multinational retailer Walmart was ranked as the largest company in the world by revenue. Walmart also had the highest number of employees in the world.

The total number of Apple employees dramatically increased from 2005 through to 2024. As of FY 2024, the total number of employees had reached around *** thousand (only counting full-time equivalent), up from *** thousand recorded in the previous year. The fiscal year end of the company is September, 30th. Apple Corporation – additional information Founded in 1976, Apple is an American multinational corporation that specializes in computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers and online services. The company initially focused on the production of consumer and business computers. Over the years it has included a more diverse line of electronic products. In 2027, Apple was the world’s 7th largest company and the world’s largest information technology company. Even though Apple was the most valuable brand in the world in 2024, it was not among the world’s largest companies in terms of staff. Other information technology companies, such as Samsung Electronics or IBM, had employed a larger number of people. However, the revenue per employee of Apple turned out to be the highest among leading technology companies. Apple products Apple’s current product line ranges across personal computers, tablet computers, digital music players and smartphones. The iPhone, a line of smartphones designed and produced by Apple, has revolutionized the smartphone industry with its screen-centric design and touch controls. Its global sales have skyrocketed since its introduction in 2007, with about *** million units sold in 2023. According to the quarterly reports by Apple, the iPhone has generated around half of Apple’s revenue between 2013 and 2024. The iPad, a line of tablet computers, counts as one of the very first players in the global tablet industry. Even though the global market share of the iPad has dropped since 2012, it still dominated the tablet market with a ** percent share as of the second quarter of 2024.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, the most popular vendor in the cloud infrastructure services market, Amazon Web Services (AWS), controlled ** percent of the entire market. Microsoft Azure takes second place with ** percent market share, followed by Google Cloud with ** percent market share. Together, these three cloud vendors account for ** percent of total spend in the fourth quarter of 2024. Organizations use cloud services from these vendors for machine learning, data analytics, cloud native development, application migration, and other services. AWS Services Amazon Web Services is used by many organizations because it offers a wide variety of services and products to its customers that improve business agility while being secure and reliable. One of AWS’s most used services is Amazon EC2, which lets customers create virtual machines for their strategic projects while spending less time on maintaining servers. Another important service is Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), which offers a secure file storage service. In addition, Amazon also offers security, website infrastructure management, and identity and access management solutions. Cloud infrastructure services Vendors offering cloud services to a global customer base do so through different types of cloud computing, which include infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Further, there are different cloud computing deployment models available for customers, namely private cloud and public cloud, as well as community cloud and hybrid cloud. A cloud deployment model is defined based on the location where the deployment resides, and who has access to and control over the infrastructure.