IBM is the world’s largest information technology company. IBM revenue into 2014 totaled 92,8 billion USD, net income was 21 billion USD, number of employees (worldwide) has reached 379, 592. For each of the past 22 years (1993-2014), IBM has been granted more U.S. patents than any other company. During 2014, spent approximately 6 percent of revenue in research and development and invested approximately 4 billion USD on capital investments. IBM's 7,534 patents awarded in 2014 represent a diverse range of inventions poised to enable significant innovations that will position the company to compete and lead in the emerging opportunities represented by cloud, big data and analytics, security, social and mobile. IBM provides diverse industry experience and a full range of resources—consulting, technology, alliances, integration, financing—to help build a strategic plan and deploy solutions tailored to any industry, and to any business. IBM brings deep business process knowledge of 18 different industries to strategic decision-making—helping a company evolve into a flexible and integrated enterprise available on demand to its customers.