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Jim Kavanaugh

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
202 total appearances

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Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Our book of business, we exited 2025, inception to date, so call that almost two years, $12.5 billion book of business.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

By the way, in the quarter, it was north of $3 billion, to your point, so thank you.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Underneath that, it's really made up of, again, platform model, because we participate in all facets of models, software, agents, assistance, orchestration.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

So software book is about, excuse me, north of $2 billion.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

By the way, in 2025, up nearly 80% overall.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

The remaining, call that north of $10.5 billion is our consulting book of business.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

That's our strategy and technology advisory work around AI, that's our data transformation services to get companies ready to scale and deploy AI, and that's our intelligent operations where we do application modernization, hybrid Cloud architecture, etc.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

So that gives you a little bit of the background.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

We're extremely excited about where we think AI is going.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

You look at studies that have been produced, whether it's BCG, McKinsey, you name it, you know, they're calling trillions, like four trillions of value creation over time around AI when it's at peak.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

And oh, by the way, interesting thing on that, just a little sidebar, only about a quarter of that is productivity.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Three quarters of that is actual new sources of growth, new industries, new companies, new markets.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

And having an innovative tech stack and a consulting business at scale plays to our advantage.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Now get to Confluent.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Confluent, we're extremely excited.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Open source company.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

We're very big in open source, starting with the initial Linux foundation that we started, but Red Hat acquisition, HashiCorp, Confluent plays extremely nicely to our strategy overall.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Confluent, leading open source company around data streaming, events, real-time foundational for Gen AI overall.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

It is going to become the glue.

Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

If you think about Gen AI, yes, you've got models.