International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger of the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company.
Manhattan Associates is a supplier of supply chain management software. Manhattan Associates was founded by Alan Dabbiere, Prahlad Suresh, Deepak Raghavan, Deepak M.J. Rao and Ponnambalam Muthiah in 1990 in Manhattan Beach, CA for the purpose of applying information technology solutions to distribution centers. The company's first product, called PkMS, managed receiving stock, locating stock, picking stock, verifying stock, packaging, and shipping stock in and out of a warehouse. In 1994, it signed its 50th customer and generated $6.5 million in revenues.
