About IBM/GSDC

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) has been working on IT-market almost for one hundred years. The company took share in development of the first mainframe computer Mark I as well as the first personal computer IBM PC. IBM has taken up the most patents for the last decade and it´s market share grows practically in all spheres of it´s activities. The annual investment in research and development ranges in ranks of milliards. Tradition, heritage and historical achievements are what IBM insists on. Company acts in whole spectra of current informatics, whereas the business services are the most dynamically evolving sphere of action. IBM provides supplies of the complex solutions and customer support all around the world. Strategic outsourcing – the complex customer support in an area of information technologies - is the indispensable part of it´s services.

Strategic outsourcing is providing of long-term services for customers to whom the supplying company provides the system, network and application administration. IBM as a prominent supplier of information technologies offers a strategic outsourcing in a considerable extent and it provides outsourcing services on a various software and hardware platforms. IBM performs this activities much faster, effectively and on a higher quality than the customer company which would have to engage other employees which would cause higher costs than in case of using the services of outsourcing company.

The modern history of IBM within Czech Republic was initiated in 1991. Ten years later, on 31st May 2001, the new service centre - Global Services Delivery Centre (GSDC) – was established in Technological Park in Brno. After few months lasting training the first IT operators and system engineers started the practical operations. At the present time GSDC dynamically evolves and opens the whole batch of new occupational positions. IBM Delivery Centre in Brno is integral part of IBM outsourcing organisation which provides complex services to thousands of customers all around the world. The range of provided services includes support and operation from corporate applications over computer networks to data centres. The services itself , or let us say it´s implementation, are possible to be effectively distributed to more centres with various specializations. Using the fast network and appropriate software the centres can be located on various places in several countries. Presently IBM GSDC focuses on operating, supporting and remote controlling of customer´s information systems – operating systems, networks, databases and applications. IBM GSDC provides their services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. IBM GSDC employees do not only have an access to modern technologies but they also have a chance to work in multicultural teams.