About IBM International Business Machines (IBM) is an American information technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York.

The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century; it was founded in 1888 and incorporated (as Computing-TabulatingRecording Company) on June 15, 1911. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. With over 420,000 employees worldwide and revenues of $95,758 million annually (figures from 2009), IBM is one of the largest information technology companies in the world, and holds more patents than any other technology company. IBM received 5,896 U.S. patents in 2010, marking the 18th consecutive year it has topped the list of the world's most inventive companies. IBM has engineers and consultants in over 170 countries and eight IBM Research laboratories, five of them located outside of the United States. More information about IBM is available at http://www.ibm.com/us/en/ IBM Strategy Leading the Transition to Smarter Planet IBM is helping its clients to change the way the world literally works and to make the planet not just smaller and flatter, but smarter. IBM is applying its expertise, global scope and creativity to build the backbone of 21st century industries and public instutions. IBM in Slovakia Today there are two entities established in Slovakia - IBM SK (1992) and IBM ISC (2003), with approximately 4000 employees. IBM Slovakia is one of the leading IT suppliers on the Slovak IT market. During its almost 20-year existence on the Slovak market it has remarkably enlarged its portfolio of products (e.g. servers, software, storage systems) and services (e.g. process continuity maintenance, creating IT infrastructure, network services, security) in IT sector. IBMs advanced technology and know-how support the most important economic processes and industries in Slovakia, such as banking, defense, government, manufacturing, telecommunications and distribution. IBM ISC is focused on customer support in 3 main areas: Finance and Planning Finance & Planning centers dedicated to drive business results through reduced complexity and increased efficiency in the financial process Customer Fulfillment

Customer Fulfillment centers with main focus on all tasks necessary in getting an accurate and complete order delivered to a customer from the step where a contract is signed to the point where the money is collected IT support ibm.com and IT centers supporting customers, sales activities, web design, databases and many others *Finance and Customer Fulfillment centers are the biggest centers in Slovakia. What makes IBM ISC in Bratislava special? During the last 9 years, the IBM corporation has appreciated the excellent geographical location and labor potential of Slovakia and has slowly established 28 international centers in Bratislava that offer their services to countries all over Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East and plan to cover the countries of Latin America, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. Centers are devoted to IBM administrative, financial and business activities for the individual regions. Slovakia currently occupies a significant position within the IBM structure and the managers responsible for international activities rank Slovakia among the top locations when deciding on new international centers. Employees of the centers include top specialists, but university graduates have also been given a chance and have not been limited by required work experience. Typical for the centers is a lively international environment. IBM employs people of 30 different nationalities speaking 27 different languages. English is a frequent communication language when communicating with the countries in the regions and their managers. The young, flexible structure offers excellent career opportunities to young people with initiative. www.ibm.com/sk History of IBM in Slovakia: 1990 - IBM opened its first office in Bratislava as a subsidiary of IBM CSFR 1993 - split of Czech and Slovak Federal Republic establishment of IBM Slovakia, Ltd. follows the split of CSFR with 2 Branch offices in cities of Banska Bystrica and Kosice 2000 - International missions were established in Bratislava to provide services to EMEA & worldwide 2003 - International Services Center, Ltd., Bratislava (IBM ISC) established real start of operations - in 2000 2010 - 32 individual service centers (as of February 2010) since 1995 IBM invested more than 10 million USD in Slovakia