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Revenue from IBM clients in the Americas, including the United States, Canada and Latin America. IBM attributes geographic revenue by client location, and the total spans its software, consulting, infrastructure and financing businesses.
americasRevenueRevenue from IBM clients in Asia Pacific, attributed by client location rather than the location of IBM operations. The total spans IBM's software, consulting, infrastructure and financing businesses.
asiaPacificRevenueIBM Consulting signings divided by Consulting revenue over the same trailing 12-month period. Signings are management's initial estimate of client commitments under services contracts, so the ratio compares new commitments with recognized Consulting revenue.
bookToBillRatioGross profit from consulting as a percentage of the corresponding revenue.
consultingGrossMarginRevenue from IBM Consulting services that advise, build, modernize and operate clients' business processes, applications, data and hybrid-cloud environments. Current reporting combines Strategy and Technology with Intelligent Operations; earlier periods use predecessor categories.
consultingRevenueIBM's management measure of profit from the Consulting segment after allocated segment expenses. Corporate reconciliation items such as stock compensation, acquired-intangible amortization and non-Financing interest are excluded from segment profit.
consultingSegmentIncomeRevenue from IBM clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, attributed by client location rather than the location of IBM operations. The total spans IBM's software, consulting, infrastructure and financing businesses.
europeMiddleEastAfricaRevenueGross profit from financing as a percentage of the corresponding revenue.
financingGrossMarginRevenue from IBM Financing's client and commercial financing arrangements, which help customers acquire hardware, software and services. It includes income from loans and leases rather than sales of the underlying technology itself.
financingRevenueIBM's management measure of profit from the Financing segment, including intercompany financing activity that is eliminated in consolidated results. It reflects the profitability of client and commercial financing after segment expenses.
financingSegmentIncomeRevenue from IBM Z and Distributed Infrastructure, including LinuxONE, Power servers, Storage and IBM Cloud infrastructure as a service. These platforms support mission-critical, hybrid-cloud and enterprise AI workloads.
hybridInfrastructureRevenueGross profit from infrastructure as a percentage of the corresponding revenue.
infrastructureGrossMarginRevenue from IBM's infrastructure platforms and lifecycle services, comprising Hybrid Infrastructure and Infrastructure Support. It covers IBM Z, LinuxONE, Power, Storage, cloud infrastructure and maintenance for IBM and third-party technology.
infrastructureRevenueIBM's management measure of profit from the Infrastructure segment after allocated segment expenses. Corporate reconciliation items such as stock compensation, acquired-intangible amortization and non-Financing interest are excluded from segment profit.
infrastructureSegmentIncomeRevenue from proactive maintenance and lifecycle support that helps keep clients' on-premises and cloud IT infrastructure available and efficient. IBM supports both its own hardware and software and technology from other vendors.
infrastructureSupportRevenueNet corporate and nonsegment items that reconcile IBM's total reportable segment profit to consolidated pretax income from continuing operations. These include acquired-intangible amortization, acquisition and workforce charges, retirement costs, stock compensation, non-Financing interest and unallocated corporate amounts.
otherIncomeBeforeTaxReconciliationResidual revenue outside IBM's Software, Consulting, Infrastructure and Financing product and service categories. It includes estimated residual-value reductions on sales-type leases; older periods also include divested businesses such as The Weather Company.
otherProductServiceRevenueRevenue outside IBM's four reportable segments, including residual-value adjustments on sales-type leases and, historically, divested businesses. It is not revenue from an undisclosed reportable business segment.
otherRevenueResidual reconciliation between IBM's consolidated revenue and the sum of Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa and Asia Pacific revenue. Small positive or negative values are reconciliation differences, not revenue from a separate geographic market.
otherRevenueByGeographyGross profit from software as a percentage of the corresponding revenue.
softwareGrossMarginRevenue from IBM's enterprise software portfolio across Hybrid Cloud (Red Hat), Automation, Data and Transaction Processing. It excludes operating-system software reported in the Infrastructure segment.
softwareRevenueIBM's management measure of profit from the Software segment after allocated segment expenses. Corporate reconciliation items such as stock compensation, acquired-intangible amortization and non-Financing interest are excluded from segment profit.
softwareSegmentIncomeIBM management's initial estimate of client commitments under Consulting services contracts signed during the period. Incremental extensions and scope increases count as signings, and estimates consider contract duration, termination charges and wind-down costs.
totalConsultingSigningsRevenue from IBM software that powers high-volume, mission-critical workloads on IBM Z, with capabilities for resilience, scalability, security and real-time fraud detection. This software category is part of IBM's Software segment.
transactionProcessingRevenueRevenue from IBM Consulting services that managed, optimized, orchestrated and secured clients' custom applications and third-party software, including application management and platform engineering. IBM stopped reporting this category after 2024 when it moved into Intelligent Operations.
applicationOperationsRevenueRevenue from IBM Consulting strategy, process design, system implementation and operations services used to transform business processes such as finance, supply chain and data workflows. IBM stopped reporting this category after 2024 when most of it moved into Strategy and Technology.
businessTransformationRevenueRevenue from IBM's former software category combining Red Hat, Automation, Data and AI, and Security products for hybrid multicloud environments. IBM stopped reporting the category after 2024 and split its portfolio into Hybrid Cloud, Automation, Data and Transaction Processing.
hybridPlatformAndSolutionsRevenueRevenue from IBM Consulting services that architected and implemented solutions across IBM and partner cloud platforms, including AI data transformation and application modernization. IBM stopped reporting this category after 2024 when it moved into Strategy and Technology.
technologyConsultingRevenue