Bangalore: Big Blue is turning 100 on June 16. As part of its centenary celebration, IBM in India has drawn up a five-year roadmap with a focus on emerging markets, business analytics, cloud computing and smarter planet.
IBM India managing director Shanker Annaswamy said the company services 700 large global clients from India. "The domestic market itself is very important for us. Telecom sector will be the main focus area for us, while banking, financial services, infrastructure, enterprise data warehousing and cloud computing will other spaces of importance for us in India."
In India, IBM is the largest IT services provider. Some 70% of its Indian revenues come from services and the rest from hardware. The company's BRIC region (Brazil, Russia, India and China) revenues grew by 19% during calendar 2010.
Annaswamy said, over its century of existence IBM has played a leading role in transforming business, science and society. Reinvesting modern corporation, pioneering the science of information and making the world work better will be the theme areas for IBM.
Since its reentry into India in 1992, IBM has been instrumental in enabling transformation across major industries including telecommunication, financial services, automotive, infrastructure, healthcare, government and education.
IBM will bring out a centennial book recording the history of the company and three journalists including Kevin Maney, Steve Hanm and Jeffrey M O'Brian are editing the book.
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