IBM Russia/CIS plays an important role in IBM’s Growth Markets organization providing a rapidly-growing source of revenue and skills for the IBM Company.

In Russia/CIS IBM is a leading provider of high-value solutions and services delivering integration and innovation to our clients. Many of Russia’s government organizations and private sector companies rely on IBM to provide the infrastructure to manage data and run critical applications.

IBM is currently present in 14 cities in the Russian Federation with offices in many of them including Moscow and St Petersburg where we have our biggest operations. In the CIS countries we have a subsidiary office in Ukraine and representative offices in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. We have over 1200 employees and work with over 1400 business partners in the region.

IBM Russia also plays a significant role in IBM’s globally integrated operations by being home to the Russian Development Laboratory since 2006. This facility, which was opened by IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano, taps into some of the best Russian technical talent which works side-by-side with our global teams on the development of IBM’s next generation technologies.

IBM has been present in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States for 35 years.

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