Dell is an American multinational computer technology company that develops, sells, repairs and supports computers and related products. Founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, Dell sells personal computers, servers, data storage devices and other electronics. Dell is known for its innovations in supply chain management and its build-to-order approach to manufacturing. It has expanded beyond computers through acquisitions in services, storage and networking.
Dell is an American multinational computer technology company that develops, sells, repairs and supports computers and related products. Founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, Dell sells personal computers, servers, data storage devices and other electronics. Dell is known for its innovations in supply chain management and its build-to-order approach to manufacturing. It has expanded beyond computers through acquisitions in services, storage and networking.
Dell is an American multinational computer technology company that develops, sells, repairs and supports computers and related products. Founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, Dell sells personal computers, servers, data storage devices and other electronics. Dell is known for its innovations in supply chain management and its build-to-order approach to manufacturing. It has expanded beyond computers through acquisitions in services, storage and networking.
Dell is an American multinational computer technology company that develops, sells, repairs and supports computers and related products. Founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, Dell sells personal computers, servers, data storage devices and other electronics. Dell is known for its innovations in supply chain management and its build-to-order approach to manufacturing. It has expanded beyond computers through acquisitions in services, storage and networking.
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Dell
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Dell is an American multinational computer technology company that develops,
sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Named after its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 145,000 people in the U.S. and around the world (Annual report 2018). Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals, HDTVs, cameras, printers, MP3 players, and electronics built by other manufacturers. The company is well known for its innovations in supply chain management and electronic commerce, particularly its direct-sales model and its "build-to-order" or "configure to order" approach to manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications. [3] [4] Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but with the acquisition in 2009 of Perot Systems, Dell entered the market for IT services. The company has since made additional acquisitions in storage and networking systems, with the aim of expanding their portfolio from offering computers only to delivering complete solutions[buzzword] for enterprise customers.[5][6] Dell was listed at number 51 in the Fortune 500 list, until 2014.[7] After going private in 2013, the newly confidential nature of its financial information prevents the company from being ranked by Fortune. In 2015, it was the third largest PC vendor in the world after Lenovo and HP.[8] Dell is the largest shipper of PC monitors worldwide.[9] Dell is the sixth largest company in Texas by total revenue, according to Fortune magazine.[10] It is the second largest non-oil company in Texas – behind AT&T – and the largest company in the Greater Austin area.[11] It was a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: DELL), as well as a component of the NASDAQ-100 and S&P 500, until it was taken private in a leveraged buyout which closed on October 30, 2013. In 2015, Dell acquired the enterprise technology firm EMC Corporation; following the completion of the purchase, Dell and EMC became divisions of Dell Technologies.
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1History o 1.1Growth in the 1990s and early 2000s o 1.2Disappointments o 1.3Dell 2.0 and downsizing o 1.42013 buyout 2Acquisitions o 2.1Acquisition of EMC 3Dell facilities o 3.1Manufacturing 4Products o 4.1Scope and brands 5Security o 5.1Self-signed root certificate o 5.2Dell Foundation Services 6Commercial aspects o 6.1Organization o 6.2Marketing 6.2.1Dell partner program 6.2.2Global analytics 6.2.3Criticisms of marketing of laptop security o 6.3Retail 6.3.1United States 6.3.1.1Kiosks 6.3.2Retail stores o 6.4Competition o 6.5Partnership with EMC 7Environmental record o 7.1Green initiatives 8Criticism 9See also 10References 11Further reading 12External links
