Vendor Analysis
published on Apr 03, 2017
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes IBM's offerings and capabilities in Managed Security Services.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s Managed Security Services profile on IBM is a comprehensive assessment of IBM’s offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of managed security services and identifying vendor suitability for security services RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the IT services sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of IBM’s managed security services offerings and capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, weaknesses, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization including the location of delivery locations.
Key Findings & Highlights:
In 2014, IBM set up its Strategic Imperatives initiative around analytics, cloud, mobile, security, and social. These strategic imperatives were not established as separate business segments but act across IBM's existing segments: Cognitive Solutions, Global Business Services, Technology Services & platforms, and Systems.
IBM formed the IBM Security business unit in 2015 to bring together its security services and solutions.
By December 2016, IBM was trialing Watson for cybersecurity as a beta program with 40 organizations.