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IBM Suffers Twelfth Consecutive Revenue Decline

IBM on Monday reported its twelfth consecutive quarter of revenue decline, with net income from the first quarter of 2015 down five percent to $2.4 billion (£1.6bn).

Overall revenues from IBM’s operations in the first quarter of this year are standing at $19.6 billion (£13.2bn), which is down 12 percent year-on-year. Even adjusting for currency, this figure is still flat.

Transformation

CEO of the 104-year-old company Ginni Rometty noted that the underwhelming results are still due to the change going on at IBM. She said: “Our focus on higher value through portfolio transformation and investment in key areas of the business drove continued margin expansion.”

IBMLooking ahead, IBM is predicting a flat year. The firm’s EMEA markets were hit the hardest, with revenues down 19 percent. Asia-Pacific revenues dived 18 percent to $4.1 billion (£2.8bn) and the Americas’ first quarter revenues were at $9.3 billion (£6.3bn), a decrease of 3 percent year on year.

Another factor in IBM’s figures, which did in fact meet analyst expectations, was the ‘workforce rebalancing’. Continuing layoffs bled $870 million (£584m) from Big Blue in the first quarter of this year.

However, IBM’s revenues from System z mainframe server products increased 118 percent compared with the year-ago period. Total delivery of System z computing power, as measured in MIPS (millions of instructions per second), increased 95 percent.

Revenues from IBM’s software business were down 8 percent to $5.2 billion (£3.5bn) (down 2 percent adjusting for currency) compared with the first quarter of 2014.

The firm’s Global Services revenues decreased 12 percent to $12.2 billion (£8.2bn). Global Technology Services business revenues were down 11 percent to $7.9 billion (£5.3bn). Global Business Services segment revenues were down 13 percent to $4.3 billion (£2.9bn).

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Ben Sullivan

Ben covers web and technology giants such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft and their impact on the cloud computing industry, whilst also writing about data centre players and their increasing importance in Europe. He also covers future technologies such as drones, aerospace, science, and the effect of technology on the environment.

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