What are the top 5 products that are actually making money for ibm? Mainframe?

Complex financial engineering is one sign of trouble. If you need a PhD to understand an company's investment or a company's balance sheet then they are probably best avoided (both the investment and the company). Or what do you think?

"Using design thinking to design software that is useless and unusable." Saw this under the "What's IBM good at?" post and found it intriguing that it got so many positive votes. Can anyone name one IBM product resulting from design thinking that was... — read more 

The IBM Quarter Century Club of Victoria (Australia) has traditionally been funded by the corporate generosity of IBM but that commitment is clearly no longer held as valuable as it once was, by IBM. The last financial support from local IBM came in... — read more 

For 18 months the email system has been down - migration from Notes but nobody in IT can put pieces of new system together. Lacking this would drive employees out. I guess the old days of PROFS would have been better. (How many remember that old... — read more 

What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-ever-happened-to-ibms-watson.html?referringSource=articleShare

/kyndryl

Mainframe Modernization continues to be a growth area in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration practice with multiple roles across our EMEA practice looking for Mainframe Migration Consultants and Architects... — read more 

You are fooling yourself if you think Red Hat will stay independent. AK just started the consolidation of his power and the blue-washing of Red Hat has just accelerated big time. IBM always destroys the company it acquires.

I am in GBS (SAP) and I joined about a year ago. I have about 10 years of experience. I like the project I am on and we'll probably be on this client through 2023... I am being offered about 20% more total comp by a mid tier consulting company -... — read more 

Thoughts?

Just announced internally at IBM... Miro Novakovic (Instana CEO) is leaving IBM... It did not take long for the Blue-washing to take effect at Instana!! Heads up Red Hat, Turbonomics, BoxBoat and BlueTab...

I keep hearing about big layoffs because ibm took $3b charge but the ground reality is that so many people are leaving/retiring that IBM has a tough time finding a replacement. They cannot even get college grads from decent colleges, forget about... — read more 

I know Bluetab is not a large company (I think they have under 1k employees total) but I wouldn't put it past IBM to use this as another reason for more cuts. If I'm not mistaken, every other acquisition was followed by layoffs. Am I misremembering... — read more 

Wouldn't say this is a positive development for Systems Group. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/libre-soc-releases-first-non-ibm-openpower-chip-in-decade

_shakes out_ = until all the RAs and re-orgs have completed. https://investorplace.com/2021/07/be-cautious-on-ibm-stock-until-after-whitehursts-resignation-shakes-out/

Looks like Sam's become a woketopian. . . [19 min. video] -- https://forms.workday.com/en-us/other/ibm-digital-acceleration/form.html Q&A With Former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano (highlight excerpts from transcript of the video) --... — read more 

Lichten & Liss-Riordan

Buy IBM stock right now. It's going to be above 150 soon. We have 2.50 EPS compared to 2.25 expected by analysts. Cloud and cognitive performed tremendously well. More than 10% grew last quarter. Systems Z also grew more than 5%. GBS is positive as... — read more 

OK. This no longer funny. Email back up yesterday? Check. Gone now?! Check check. What a friggin, embarrassing, cluster fu... This is even beyond embarrassing. What's next? Denial? Nothing to see here. Move along now.

Dutch MoD to be suing IBM in a few years. . . https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/atos-and-ibm-to-build-infrastructure-for-the-dutch-ministry-of-defense/

I realize that to many in IBM, IGF is a bit of a “fifth wheel” behind product and services sales. Nevertheless, we are often the key sales enabler in a deal and another relationship point with the client. However, the decision to bar IGF from... — read more 

Have read on these pages AK doesn't like Expert Labs. Have to admit, don't really know what the scope of Expert Labs is. Org chart makes it look like they are part of Marketing? Think they will be a post split RA Target?

I wonder how respected do you think this company is within the industry? I would like someone to convince me that this is still a respectable company, but unfortunately, I increasingly think that it is not. Moreover, I think that it will enjoy less... — read more 

Anyone have a good feel or reasonable calculations for what RA numbers will look like, and what units would be affected for each side? (I surely don't.) Thought it might be good to get it all on one place.

A few people I know who were laid off in the past several years have decided to take a year (or more in one case) off before even attempting to find a new job. While I envy them - who wouldn't enjoy a lengthy vacation - I'm not sure how smart of a... — read more 

Looks like TSS will buoyed a bit. https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/09/teradata_outsources_on_premise_data_warehouse_hardware_support_to_ibm/

I would urge everyone to consider opportunities outside IBM. If you are seeking far better pay (+ 50%), more scope for career growth and a better culture that would treat employees like they should, that would be a no brainer. AK and the cool-aid... — read more 

"My successor will need one other particular strength: the ability to fight off the ABCs of business decay, which are arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency," Buffett said. "When these corporate cancers metastasize, even the strongest of companies... — read more 

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IBM is making a HUGE mistake in letting Jim go. The below link is a great read on Jim and his core values. Also, how he got into... — read more 

There was a time when you could begin and end your career with one company. But in this day and age, the best thing anyone that’s in their 20s-30s can do to build their career is to change jobs every 3-5 years and never stop looking for new... — read more 

It was never much of a mystery why James Whitehurst stepped down as IBM's President. Whitehurst wanted to be IBM's CEO, and IBM's board went for company man Arvind Krishna instead. Now, though, Whitehurst himself has admitted that that is ... — read more 

I wonder how challenging it is to work in Marketing here and does RA in September sound a relief to those working in Marketing? Somehow I think that I if I was an expert at marketing, I would never want to work at IBM.

Biden will sign an EO banning Non-Compete clauses in the US. That's one thing IBM held over our heads to keep us from going to competitors. No longer the case after this morning. Expect many IBMers to start exiting to Microsoft and Amazon. ... — read more 

https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/07/08/the-future-ibm-we-will-probably-never-see/

As in the past, the advent of powerful new technologies requires a new social contract to ensure more equal access to opportunity. #GetWokeGoBroke https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/perspectives/ibm-ceo-arvind-krishna-digital-skills/index.html — read more 

https://www.wraltechwire.com/2021/07/08/whitehurst-fallout-the-future-ibm-we-will-probably-never-see/

Please list country and division

In the long run, Whitehurst's absence will leave a weakened IBM and Red Hat facing stronger cloud and Linux rivals. Byline says it all. https://www.zdnet.com/article/with-whitehurst-stepping-down-where-do-ibm-and-red-hat-go-from-here/