Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1994 Workforce: ~5,66,000 Company Overview: Amazon is an American cloud computing and e-commerce company and the largest internet retailer in the world in terms of sales and market capitalization. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Operating in North America and international markets, Amazon offers services through its websites and enables app developers, authors, filmmakers to publish and sell content via its branded websites. The international segment primarily consists of retail sales of consumer products and subscriptions through focused websites. The Amazon Web Services segment consists of sales of computing, storage, database, and other service offerings for start-ups, enterprises, government agencies, and academic institutions. AWS cloud provides networking & databases, storage options, and computing power infrastructure services. AWS announced more than 1400 services and features including Amazon SageMaker that can be used by the developers to build sophisticated machine learning models. AWS is one of the subsidiaries of Amazon.com, Inc. Few other subsidiaries of Amazon.com, Inc. are Audible, Zappos, Amazon Books, and Alexa Internet.

Broadcom Inc. (Broadcom) provides a range of semiconductors, including complex digital and mixed-signal complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-based devices and analog III-V-based products. It operates through four segments—wired infrastructure, wireless communications, enterprise storage, and industrial & others. The wired infrastructure segment provides a broad set of standard Ethernet switching technologies to deliver system-on-chips (SoCs) for high-performance computing applications and high-speed serializer/deserializer technology integrated with application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). It also offers semiconductor solutions for set-top boxes, digital subscriber line cable, and fiber broadband access markets. The segment also provides transceivers that transmit and receive Ethernet data packets through copper wires or optical fiber cables. Broadcom provides optical laser and receiver components for Ethernet networking and access, metro, and long-haul telecommunication networks. The wireless communication segment offers a variety of radio frequency (RF) semiconductor devices that amplify and filter RF signals. The enterprise storage segment offers products designed to enable secure movement of digital data to and from host machines, such as servers, personal computers, and storage systems, to underlying storage devices including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). The products offered by the company include enterprise and data center networking, home connectivity, broadband access, telecommunications equipment, smartphones, data center servers and storage, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, and electronic displays. Geographically, the company operates in the US, China, and Singapore, among others.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is one of the leading providers of technology solutions to increase customers' traditional information technology. The company operates through three business segments, namely enterprise group (EG), financial services (FS), and corporate investments. EG segment offers a wide range of enterprise technology solutions for the next generation of applications, web services, and user experiences. It offers servers, storage, networking, and technology services. The company also offers networking devices such as switches, routers, wireless local area network (WLAN), and network management products. These networking devices provide consistent solutions that can be implemented in data centers, campuses, and offices and deliver software-defined networking (SDN) and unified communications capabilities. HPE also offers support and consulting services. The support services offerings cover various levels of customer support requirements and include HPE Foundation Care, HPE Proactive Care, HPE Datacenter Care, and Lifecycle Event services. HPE has a presence in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East & Africa.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1911 Workforce: ~2,82,100 Company Working: IBM Corporation is a global provider of integrated business solutions and services. Its Cloud & Cognitive Software division provides software for vertical and domain-specific solutions in a variety of application areas, as well as customer information control system and storage, analytics, and integration software solutions to support client mission on-premises workloads in the banking, airline, and retail industries. It also provides middleware and data platform software, such as Red Hat, which allows clients to run hybrid multi-cloud environments; cloud paks, WebSphere distributed, and analytics platform software, such as DB2 distributed, information integration, and enterprise content management; and IoT, blockchain, and AI/Watson platforms. Business consulting services, packaged software system integration, application management, maintenance, and support services, and finance, procurement, talent and engagement, and industry-specific business process outsourcing services are all available through the company's global business services segment. IT infrastructure and platform services are provided by the company's global technology services business, as well as project, managed, outsourcing, and cloud-delivered services for enterprise IT infrastructure environments and IT infrastructure support services. The cognitive solutions segment offers a cognitive computing platform called Watson, which interacts in natural language, processes big data, and learns from interactions with people and computers. This segment also provides data and analytics solutions, data management platforms, cloud data services, enterprise social software, and transaction processing software that run mission-critical systems in the banking, airline, and retail industries. IBM provides speech recognition products using computer hardware and software-based techniques to identify and process the human voice and convert the spoken words into computer text. Furthermore, the company is also investing heavily in designing and developing automatic speech recognition technology-based products, which are capable of authenticating users via their voice and performing an action based on the instructions defined by the human.

Pluribus Network Inc. is a provider of network virtualization, software-defined fabric networking, and performance analytics software solutions used to build public and private clouds for improving performance, reliability, and service velocity. The company provides various types of products such as Netvisor ONE OS, Adaptive Cloud Fabric, open networking switches, Pluribus UNUM, Insight Analytics, and VirtualWire. It also provides solutions for distributed cloud, data center interconnect, network and traffic segmentation, lab automation, and network performance monitoring.

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Huawei) is one of the leading providers of global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. The company offers competitive solutions, products, and services to telecom service providers, enterprises, and consumers. The company operates through four business divisions—carrier business, enterprise business, consumer business, and Huawei cloud. The carrier segment offers products and services in 5G networks, NB-IoT, and all cloud networks covering NFV and SDN contracts. Additionally, the carrier business offers testing for 5G and all-cloud networks and digital O&M systems for data centers. The enterprise segment offers various solutions for the cloud, big data, campus networks, data centers, and IoT domains. The consumer business segment includes high-tech products that offer a premium user experience in end-use applications. Huawei Cloud is the newest segment include by the company that offers customers with stable, reliable, secure, and trustworthy cloud services for various industry verticals such as manufacturing, healthcare, e-commerce, connected vehicles, high-performance computing, IoT, and SAP applications. The company has its presence in Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), Asia-Pacific, and the Americas.

Founded in 1899, NEC Corporation is one of the leading companies in IT integration and network technologies providing products & solutions that cross utilize the company's experience and global resources. The company is headquartered in Japan and has offices across the globe. Other than Japan, the company serves Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. One of the subsidiaries of the company is NEC Corporation of America.The company operates in four business segments namely, public, enterprise, telecom carrier and system platform business. The public business segment includes safe, secure and efficient social solutions for domestic and foreign governments, governmental agencies, public institutions, financial institutions and other organizations. The enterprise business segment includes IT solutions to meet private-sector demand, centering on manufacturing and retail, simultaneously launching new services to help create new value for customers. In the telecom carrier business the company supplies equipments required for network implementation to telecom carriers. The system platform business provides products for business, like mobile terminals, network equipment, computer equipment, software products and service platforms, and solutions based on them. The public business segment has the highest share of revenue. It contributed USD 6.8 billion in 2016 which is approximately 27% of company’s total revenue.

Ciena Corporation specializes in services, software, and networking systems. The company operates through three business segments—networking platforms, software-related services, and global services. The network platform segment includes packet networking, converged packet-optical, and optical transport product portfolio. The packet networking portfolio allows users to simplify the distribution and delivery of new profit-generating services to the customers and enterprise end-users. Few subsidiaries of Ciena Corporation are Packet Design, Donriver Inc., Cyan, CIENA Communications Inc., and Ciena Canada Inc. The company operates across North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the rest of the world.

Company Headquarters: California, US Founded: 1984 Workforce: ~74,200 Company Working: Cisco Systems, Inc. (Cisco) designs, manufactures, and markets IP-based networking products and services for information and communication technology (ICT) industry. The company offers various products in the following categories: networking, mobility & wireless, security, data center, and cloud. Cisco’s product portfolio includes switches, routers, wireless, network management interfaces & modules, optical networking, access points, outdoor & industrial access points, next-generation firewalls, advanced malware protection, VPN security clients, email, and web security. The company serves various industry verticals such as education, energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality, as well as the government sector. The company’s technology offerings comprise analytics and automation, cloud, collaboration, data center, digital transformation, enterprise networks, innovation, mobility, security, services, and service providers. The company has more than 400 offices worldwide.