IFS AB is a global enterprise software company headquartered in Linkping, Sweden, with 2700 employees at offices all over the world. Based in Sweden, it maintains development centrers in Sweden, Sri Lanka and Poland while operating as a multinational corporation through subsidiaries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia Pacific. IFS focuses on four core strategic processes: service & asset management, manufacturing, supply chain and projects. IFS develops, supplies, and implements IFS Applications,
Verizon Communications Inc., branded as Verizon, is an American broadband and telecommunications company, the largest U.S. wireless communications service provider as of September 2014, but is incorporated in Delaware. What eventually became Verizon was founded as Bell Atlantic, which was one of the seven Baby Bells that were formed after AT&T Corporation was forced to relinquish its control of the Bell System by order of the Justice Department of the United States. Bell Atlantic came into existence in 1984 with a footprint from New Jersey to Virginia, with each area having a separate operating company.