IBM’s history in the Kingdom goes back to 1947, when a group of IBM specialists arrived in Dhahran to install the first information-handling system for the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO). With the rapid economic development in the Kingdom, Saudi Business Machines Ltd. (SBM) was established in 1981 as the General Marketing and Services Representative (GMSR) of IBM World Trade Corporation in Saudi Arabia.

SBM is the digital hub of innovative emerging technology solutions leveraging IoT, AI and Data Science to digitally transform your business. SBM partners with worldwide IT leaders to offer cutting-edge enterprise technology solutions across every industry in the Kingdom, with its capability as a total solutions provider further enhanced with an unrivalled portfolio of solutions in Systems and Software, Networking, Systems Integration, Consultation and Implementation, Business Recovery, Physical and Cyber Security, Cloud and Operations Support.