With 109 years of history, IBM is a leader in innovation serving businesses and institutions around the world. It operates in 175 countries with approximately 350,000 employees. The company offers access to exponential technologies and services for the digital transformation of business models to organizations in every sector. Cloud computing, artificial intelligence, analytics, hardware and data center systems, blockchain, cybersecurity and quantum computing: these are the areas in which IBM is recognized as a global leader and a brand with a strong ethical commitment to the market and the social context in which it operates. In particular, IBM dedicates more than 5 billion dollars every year to research, with the work of 12 global centers and more than 8500 engineers, scientists and designers from 54 countries and as many American states. This ensures the primacy, uninterrupted since 1993, in the ranking of patents filed in the United States: in 27 years they have exceeded 140 thousand units. In 2019 alone they have risen to 9,262, of which over 1800 in artificial intelligence, 2500 in the cloud and 1400 dedicated to security. IBM has been operating in Italy since 1927, contributing seamlessly to the development of innovation in every economic sector.