Scandium International Mining Corp
EMC Corporation and its subsidiaries design, manufacture, market and support a
wide range of networked storage products and information storage and management
software that are designed to enable organizations of all sizes to extract the
maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point
in the information lifecycle. We also offer extensive services for information
storage and management. Our strategy and vision is to focus on the management
of information across its entire lifecycle from creation and use to archive and
disposal. By doing so, we help customers improve the utilization of their information
technology (IT) assets, simplify and automate the management of their information,
provide cost-effective business continuity and ensure easier compliance with government
and industry regulations and corporate governance requirements. Our best-of-breed
technology and depth of services expertise are focused on helping customers implement
information lifecycle management.
The customers for our products are located worldwide and represent a cross-section
of industries and government agencies. Our customers use our products and services
in conjunction with a variety of computing platforms, storage systems and software
applications that support key business processes, including transaction processing,
enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, data warehousing,
electronic commerce, content management, business intelligence and web hosting.
Our products enable them to consolidate, network and generate value from their
digital information across heterogeneous storage systems, switches, hubs, servers
and software.
We believe that our products and services enable our customers to realize higher
returns on information and achieve competitive advantages.
We were incorporated in Massachusetts in 1979. Our corporate headquarters are
located at 176 South Street, Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
We market our products through multiple distribution channels. We have a direct
sales presence throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East,
South Africa and the Asia Pacific region. We also have agreements in place with
many distributors, systems integrators, resellers and OEMs in certain areas
of the world. These agreements, subject to certain terms and conditions, enable
these companies to market and resell certain of our systems and software. In
2003, we expanded our distribution capabilities through both new and enhanced
partner and channel relationships. Also in 2003, as a result of our acquisitions
of LEGATO and Documentum, we established additional distribution relationships.
Competition
We compete with many companies in the markets we serve, certain of which offer
a broad spectrum of IT products and services and others which offer specific
information storage or management products or services. We believe that most
of these companies compete based on their market presence, products, services
or price. Certain of these companies also compete by offering storage-related
products or services, together with other IT products or services, at minimal
or no additional cost in order to preserve or gain market share.