Peraton vs IBM

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Peraton leads in AI visibility (92 vs 80)

Peraton

LeaderGovernment, Defense & Nonprofit

Government IT & National Security

National security-focused federal IT firm with $8B+ revenue and 17,000+ employees. Serves DoD, intelligence community, and NASA on space, cyber, and mission-critical programs.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A92
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
83%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
99
Perplexity
99
Gemini
93

About

Peraton is a national security and critical infrastructure technology company founded in 2017 through Veritas Capital's acquisition of Harris IT Services, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. The company operates at the classified intersection of space, intelligence, cyber, defense, and civilian IT missions, generating over $8 billion in annual revenue with a workforce exceeding 17,000 cleared professionals.\n\nPeraton's portfolio covers space systems engineering, satellite communications, intelligence analysis, cybersecurity operations, digital transformation for federal agencies, and mission application development. The company has built deep experience supporting agencies such as NASA, NGA, NSA, DISA, and the military services. Its "enterprise IT at scale" strategy emphasizes complex, multi-year programs in the $500 million to $2 billion range—an area where its cleared workforce and program execution track record provide competitive advantages.\n\nFormed through the merger of Perspecta (a combination of DXC's government IT business, Vencore, and KeyW) and Northrop Grumman's IT and mission services division, Peraton rapidly became one of the largest pure-play national security IT contractors. Veritas Capital has positioned Peraton as a strategic consolidator in government IT, adding capabilities in autonomy, AI, and next-generation communications since 2021.

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IBM

LeaderEnterprise Software

General

Armonk NY hybrid cloud and enterprise AI (NYSE: IBM) at $62.8B revenue; $6B+ generative AI bookings, record $12.7B free cash flow 2024, DataStax acquisition for watsonx vector database competing with Microsoft Azure for enterprise AI.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A80
Category Rank
#56 of 1158
AI Consensus
67%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
74
Perplexity
71
Gemini
84

About

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an Armonk, New York-based global technology and consulting company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: IBM) as an S&P 500 component — providing hybrid cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence software, and enterprise IT consulting through approximately 270,300 employees in 170 countries with $62.8 billion in annual revenue. Founded on June 16, 1911, as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger orchestrated by financier Charles Ranlett Flint, renamed IBM in 1924 under Thomas Watson Sr., IBM has undergone multiple strategic transformations over its 110+ year history: building the System/360 mainframe platform (1964), launching the IBM PC (1981), selling the PC division to Lenovo (2005, $1.75B), and completing the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition (2019) that repositioned IBM as a hybrid cloud platform company. CEO Arvind Krishna (appointed April 2020) has focused IBM's strategy on three areas: hybrid cloud (powered by Red Hat OpenShift, the enterprise Kubernetes platform), AI (the watsonx platform for enterprise AI model development and deployment), and enterprise consulting. Under Krishna, IBM recorded $12.7 billion in free cash flow in 2024 (a company record), surpassed $6 billion in generative AI bookings since June 2023, and saw the stock price double — trading at all-time highs through 2024-2025. IBM announced the DataStax acquisition in 2025 to deepen watsonx's data layer with AstraDB (vector database for AI applications), DataStax Enterprise (Apache Cassandra), and Langflow (low-code AI agent development).

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

92
Overall Score
80
#1
Category Rank
#56
83
AI Consensus
67
up
Trend
up
99
ChatGPT
74
99
Perplexity
71
93
Gemini
84
95
Claude
74
94
Grok
81

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