The IBM Germany Research & Development Center based in Boeblingen, south of Stuttgart is one of the largest research and development centers of IBM outside the US. Since its foundation in 1953, the center runs IT development and research projects for the global market. Today, around 2,000 computer scientists, electrical engineers and physicists from more than 30 countries on site as well as at locations in Mainz, Walldorf and Kassel are working in more than 60 hardware and software projects in close cooperation with other IBM research and development centers on five continents.The projects range from systems development (System z and System p Hard-and Firmware, System Software) to software development including all major Software Group brands except of Rational. These development projects deliver into the IBM strategies and portfolio, i.e. Cloud Computing, Green IT and Web 2.0 technologies as well as IBM middleware software for Information, Systems and Business Process Management. Systems & Technology Group project teams cover hardware and operating system development for mainframes as well as supercomputing concepts and components.
The Lab hosts the largest teams of experts for the open Linux operating system as well as for SAP technologies on IBM hard- and software platforms.
A number of Lab experts hold lectures at various German universities and maintain collaborations with more than 30 national academic and research institutions to ensure a continuous transfer of knowledge between industry and science. The customer center on the ground in Böblingen offers each year more than 4,000 visitors platforms for information exchange between customers, IBM business partners, researchers and developers.