On the Record · IBM
IBM competitors, on the record
The companies IBM names as competitors in its annual reports, 2022 to 2025, and the companies that name IBM, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who IBM names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Accenture | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Alphabet (Google) | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Amazon | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| BMC | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Broadcom | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Capgemini | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Dell Technologies | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Intel | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Microsoft | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| NetApp | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Oracle | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Pure Storage | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Salesforce | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| SAP | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Informatica | 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Splunk | 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Palo Alto Networks | 2022, 2023 |
| Cisco Systems | 2022 |
| Splunk, a CISCO Company | 2025 |
| VMware | 2022 |
In its own words
Accenture, Capgemini
Word for word“Our competitors include global firms such as Accenture, Capgemini, India-based service providers, management consulting firms, the consulting practices of public accounting firms, engineering service providers, and niche specialists.” 10-K for 2025
Alphabet (Google), Amazon, BMC, Broadcom, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Splunk, a CISCO Company
Word for word“The principal competitors in this segment include: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, BMC, Broadcom, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP and Splunk, a CISCO Company.” 10-K for 2025
Dell Technologies, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, NetApp, Pure Storage
Word for word“Our principal competitors include: Dell Technologies, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, NetApp and Pure Storage as well as original device manufacturers (ODMs) who provide systems that are re-branded.” 10-K for 2025
Informatica, Splunk
Word for word“The principal competitors in this segment include: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, BMC, Broadcom, Informatica, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP and Splunk.” 10-K for 2024
Palo Alto Networks
Word for word“The principal competitors in this segment include: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, BMC, Broadcom, Informatica, Microsoft, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce, SAP and Splunk.” 10-K for 2023
Cisco Systems, VMware
Word for word“The principal competitors in this segment include: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, BMC, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Informatica, Microsoft, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce, SAP, Splunk and VMware.” 10-K for 2022
Who names IBM
Companies whose own annual reports name IBM as a competitor.
Word for word“Azure faces diverse competition from companies such as Amazon, Broadcom, Google, IBM, Oracle, and open source offerings.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“In the ICT sector Bezeq International competes with competitors such as Binat, Teldor, IBM and others.” 20-F for 2019
Word for word“Some of our competitors in this category include subsidiaries of IBM, AT&T, Verizon, DXC Technology, Dell, Accenture and CGI Group.” 10-K for 2017
Word for word“Our competitors in various market segments include among others Accenture, Conduent, Econolite, IBM, Indra, Init, Intelight, Kapsch, Kimley-Horn, McCain, Flowbird, Roper Technologies, Scheidt & Bachmann, Siemens, Thales, Trapeze and Vix.” 10-K for 2020
Word for word“With respect to on-premise infrastructure monitoring, we compete with diversified technology companies and systems management vendors including IBM, Microsoft Corporation, and SolarWinds Corporation.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our main competitors include legacy vendors, such as Dell EMC, NetApp, Hitachi Vantara, HP Enterprise, and IBM, each of which offer a broad range of systems targeting various use cases and end markets and have the technical and financial resources to bring competitive products to market.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“In the fraud solutions market for banking, we compete primarily with Nice Actimize, Experian, Pegasystems, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, SAS, ACI Worldwide, IBM, Feedzai and Featurespace.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“In certain areas, including governance, risk and compliance (GRC), Matrix competes with large global corporations such as IBM, Accenture and Oracle, as well as the consulting divisions of the Big-4 accounting firms and system vendors that provide implementation and support services for their own products.” 20-F for 2025
Word for word“Our primary competitors are other infrastructure and cloud management software technology vendors, such as Broadcom, Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Technologies Inc., IBM, NetApp Inc., Nutanix, and Pure Storage and public cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“In the ICT sector Bezeq International competes with competitors such as Binat, Teldor, IBM and others.” 20-F for 2018
Word for word“Large technology companies such as Google and IBM, and startup companies such as Rigetti Computing, are adopting a superconducting circuit technology approach, in which small amounts of electrical current circulate in a loop of superconducting material (usually metal where the electrical resistance vanishes at low temperatures).” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our principal competitors currently include the following companies: Accenture Federal Services LLC, Amentum Services Inc., KBR, Inc., BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., CACI International Inc., Deloitte, General Dynamics Corporation, GovCIO, IBM, KBR Inc., L3Harris Technologies, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, ManTech, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Optum, Parsons Corporation, Peraton Inc., RTX Corporation and SAIC.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Our primary competitors in the U.S. Federal Services Segment are General Dynamics Information Technology, Deloitte, Leidos, IBM, Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, and other federal contractors.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“We primarily compete with established legacy database software providers such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and other similar companies.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“In the Enterprise business segment, we compete mostly with the same competitors as those in the Public Solutions business segment, particularly for large-scale and highly complex commercial projects, as well as with large multinational ICT service providers such as IBM Corporation and Accenture plc.” 20-F for 2020
Word for word“In the enterprise market, our competitors include companies who provide network observability, application performance management, infrastructure performance management and other related solutions such as CA Technologies (a Broadcom Inc. business), Cisco Systems, Dynatrace, Datadog, ExtraHop, IBM, Infovista, Viavi, Gigamon, New Relic, Riverbed Technology, and SolarWinds.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“For our ALM products, we compete with IBM, Jama Software, Inc. and Siemens AG.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Moreover, we also compete with HPE, IBM, Oracle and Unisys Corporation, each of which offers a UNIX operating system.” 10-K for 2019
Word for word“Our main competitors fall into the following categories: • Data management and protection vendors, such as Commvault, Dell EMC, IBM, Veeam, and Cohesity; • Smaller cloud and SaaS data management vendors with products that compete in some of our markets; and • Vendors that provide cyber/ransomware detection and investigation, identity recovery and resilience, data security posture management, insider threat detection, data classification, incident containment, and other security and data governance technologies.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Our competitors include large public companies, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle that offer identity solutions within their product portfolios, and identity centric solution providers, including Palo Alto Networks (CyberArk), Okta, and One Identity.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Our current primary competitors generally fall into the following categories: • large technology companies, including suppliers of traditional business intelligence and data preparation products, and/or cloud-based offerings that provide one or more capabilities that are competitive with our products, such as Amazon.com, Inc., Google, IBM, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, salesforce.com, inc. and SAP SE; • business analytics software companies, such as MicroStrategy, Qlik and TIBCO Spotfire (a subsidiary of TIBCO Software Inc.); and • providers of SaaS-based or cloud-based analytics products.” 10-K for 2018
Word for word“Our principal competitors in this industry at the enterprise level include Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, BT, ShoreTel and Google for hosted services solutions and IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Verizon Business and regional integrated 15 service vendors for professional services.” 10-K for 2016
Word for word“Global technology and consulting firms such as Accenture, Capgemini, HP, and IBM; and” 10-K for 2025
Read from IBM’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023, 10-K for 2022) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-24. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.