International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger of the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company.
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,
