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IBM has inaugurated the Services Innovation Lab (SIL) in order to accelerate the expansion of real-time analytics and software automation in both IBM's technology services offerings and its global services delivery capabilities.
The SIL will operate out of IBM Research's Labs worldwide, including New York, California, China, Israel, India, Japan, Switzerland and Brazil. The initial focus of the SIL projects includes cloud computing, advanced analytics, service delivery automation, enterprise mobilization and smarter planet.
“This lab will initially comprise of 200 technology experts. This lab will give a boost to nearly 10-year-old services research program by bringing together services, research, software developers and industry experts from around the company to focus initially on the creation of services software applications for cloud computing, analytics and mobility,” said a release.
It also added that IBM invests more than $6 billion annually on research and development and employs about 3,000 researchers worldwide, with about a third of them focused on services and analytics.
“Our singular focus is to help our clients capitalize on technologies that solve problems and create new possibilities,” said Mike Daniels, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Services. “Creation of the Services Innovation Lab demonstrates how we at IBM differentiate our capabilities vs. competition. We harness the best of what IBM research and development can deliver in science and engineering to help our clients be more innovative,” he added.
“The Services Innovation Lab is creating a research environment that leverages advances in services science, analytics and cloud computing to create innovation that matters for our clients anywhere in the world, said Mahmoud Naghshineh, vice president and director, IBM Services Innovation Lab.