IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It employs over 190,000 people across more than 160 countries. IBM Global Services started in the spring of 1991, with the aim towards helping companies manage their IT operations and resources.

Global Services has two major divisions: Global Business Services (GBS) and Global Technology Services (GTS).

IBM Global Business Services (GBS) is the professional services arm of Global Services, including management consulting, systems integration, and application management services. It is the world's largest IT consultancy service firm.^{[citation needed]}. GBS accounts for around 19% of IBM's revenue globally ($20B in revenue in 2011 out of $107B for IBM overall).

The beginning of IBM’s involvement in IT services can be traced back at least to 1989 when Eastman Kodak Company and IBM completed an agreement by which IBM designed, built and managed a new state-of-the-art data center for Kodak in Rochester, New York.

Saul J. Berman (born April 30, 1939) is a prominent American scholar and leading Modern Orthodox rabbi.

As a rabbi, scholar, and educator he has made extensive contributions to the intensification of Jewish education for Jewish women on many levels, to the role of social ethics in synagogue life, and to the understanding of the applicability of Jewish Law to contemporary society.

Rabbi Berman was ordained at Yeshiva University, from which he also received his B.A. and his M.H.L. He completed a degree in law, a J.D., at New York University, and an M.A. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with David Daube. He spent two years studying mishpat ivri in Israel at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University.

Berman was the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel (Berkeley, California) from 1963 to 1969, of Young Israel of Brookline from 1969 to 1971, and senior rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan, New York from 1984 to 1990. He has been a professor at Yeshiva University for many years and teaches a seminar at Columbia Law School.