IBM Main Profit Center Is Its Software Segment
International Business Machinery Company (IBM) sells a variety of products and services, including software, consulting, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The company also provides financing services to its customers to facilitate the acquisition of their information technology (IT) systems, software and services. The company has customers in more than 175 countries and competes with hundreds of companies ranging from small businesses to large multinationals. IBM business segment IBM operates through four business segments: Software, Consulting, Infrastructure and Finance. It provides a breakdown of the revenue and gross profit margin for each of these segments. It also provides gross profit figures for the first three segments. We used the gross profit margin and revenue figures for the financing segment to derive the gross profit figures used in the pie chart above for gross profit. Note that IBM also generates revenue through the "Other" category, which we exclude from the ...