1.Overview of International Business Machines Corporation1.1General information of International Business Machines Corporation-Trade name: IBM-Type: Public Company-Founded: 2019 in Endicott, New York-Founder: Charles Ranlett Flint-Headquarters:Armonk, New York, U.S.-Area served:177 countries-President: Jim Whitehurst-Chief Executive Officer: Arvind Krishna-Number of employees: 345,900 (2020)-Phone + US: 800-IBM-4YOU+ Non-US: +1 914-499-4000-Website: ibm.comIBM produces and sells computer hardware, middleware and software, and provides hosting andconsulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is also amajor research organization, holding the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by abusiness (as of 2020) for 28 consecutive years. Inventions by IBM include the automated tellermachine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relationaldatabase, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and dynamic random-access
