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What could you be doing?
Global Business Services is part of Global Services, the world's largest services company - we have consultants and professional staff in more than 170 countries. As you might expect, we have developed vast amounts of expertise, across many different industries. We’ve driven growth in the telecommunications industry. We’ve managed the multichannel world of media. We’ve optimised complex supply chains. We’ve helped build intelligent oil fields.
What will you do? Broadly speaking, our consultants work within various different service lines, which are defined by the services we provide to our clients and the industries in which we go to market. You can build your career in one or more of these areas, focusing deeply in a particular discipline or developing expertise across several. Here’s how it breaks down:
Service lines you can join
Strategy & Transformation
We bring together strategy and process consulting skills, change management expertise and industry insight, to help clients transform their businesses. In Strategy & Transformation, you’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary team organised around one of our clients’ business areas: Business and Customer, Operations & Supply Chain, Organisation & People, Finance & Risk, or Technology. You would be working closely with colleagues from other service lines, and from across IBM, to create that fusion of business insight and deep technology expertise that differentiates an IBM solution.
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Business Analytics and Optimisation (BAO)
In today’s market conditions, there’s a lot of opportunity to help clients improve the way they work, make efficiencies and predict their future performance. This is why we’re investing heavily in Business Analytics. Our expertise helps clients see patterns in vast amounts of data, and make intelligent, fact-based business decisions. We have five areas of focus here that you can be part of: Strategy, Business Intelligence and Performance Management; Advanced Analytics and Optimisation; Enterprise Information Management; and Enterprise Content Management.
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SAP
Simply put, we’re the largest SAP integrator in the world. We’re also the only SAP partner that holds all three certifications – global services, technology and hosting. We’ve more than 10,000 SAP practitioners; we’ve helped some 5000 clients worldwide; and we’ve a broad range of capabilities – consulting, infrastructure and applications, in-depth support, and operational and management processes. What does this mean to you? Well, you’ll play a key role in developing, selling and managing complex, groundbreaking projects. You’ll be able to draw on a broad portfolio of skills and services. And you’ll be part of a team that’s won many awards for its work (in fact, we were named SAP Partner of the Year in 2009).
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Oracle
We have one of the largest and most knowledgeable groups of Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel consultants around. Here, you’ll have access to top-tier clients and benefit from our ongoing investment in innovative solutions, people development and intellectual capital. You’ll also have the benefit of working with dedicated technologists, who collaborate on new Oracle and PeopleSoft solutions, tackle R&D technology issues and develop educational materials.
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Application Innovation Services
In Application Innovation Services we’ve a single mission: to help IBM clients innovate and grow by applying advanced technologies, developing applications and bringing together complex systems. Our consultants bring wide-ranging expertise – in everything from wireless and mobile technologies, to web-based application development and enterprise integration. For you, this is a chance to join the leader in the application services market and one of the fastest growing service providers in the industry.
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Application Management Services
How can we help clients add functionality and manage the cost at the same time? This is the conundrum our Application Management Services consultants answer. They deliver expertise across the entire applications spectrum, and apply a range of technologies, from the traditional to the most-leading-edge web capabilities. There are a number of areas to tackle: new solutions, enhancements of existing applications, end user support and application maintenance – giving you the opportunity to turn your hand to a variety of challenges.
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Where you can specialise
It goes without saying that our clients want us to build intricate knowledge of their businesses. This is why we’re constantly on the lookout for people who have, or can gain, deep industry expertise. Below are the areas of specialist experience we look for – and the kind of areas you can develop knowledge in when you join us.
So, whether you're an individual contributor or large-scale project leader, a business process or technical professional, a deep industry specialist or someone who has worked across industries, we can offer you an ideal home for your expertise.





