Collaborate today. Innovate for tomorrow.
The IBM Innovation Centre (IIC) helps innovators build, market and sell their solutions. This is your centre. Use it to:
- Leverage our training and one-to-one technical assistance to build and test your solutions
- Help close deals and grow your business as you work with experts here and around the world to reach new markets
- Collaborate with IBM, Business Partners, IT professionals and academic leaders
"The support from the Dublin IBM Innovation Centre has been tremendous in getting our products developed and ready for market, from technical support to provision of facilities through to customer introductions. An invaluable support structure for emerging software companies."
—Alex Campbell, chief executive officer, NewCode Technologies Limited
Innovation Centre Mission
The Innovation Centre is one of 32 IBM Innovation Centres worldwide which helps Irish software companies to leverage support from IBM experts in developing and testing new advanced and emerging technologies. IBM technology experts will also provide information and support to Irish companies in the form of workshops, seminars, access to design, scalability testing, porting and enablement services.
The Innovation Centre channels start-up businesses to IBM's centres of competencies in the areas of SAP and Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), a technology for transforming software applications into reusable services.
The Innovation Centres will act as catalysts for innovation, new company creation and growth and will make a valuable contribution to the culture of entrepreneurship in Ireland.
Details on IIC Workshops and resources at this centre, products offered, centre information and developer resources.
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Business Incubation Centre
The Innovation Centre is also co-located with the Business Incubation Centre which houses many European Centres for business innovation, providing unique opportunities with Irish, European and Global ISVs and developers. Incubation businesses located within the IIC include:
- Cloud Computing
- Stream Computing
- Water Management Centre of Excellence
- Green Sigma Centre of Excellence
- Datacentre Management
- RFID Centre of Excellence
- Mobile Health
Other resources available
As with most IICs, the Dublin Centre will be offering a range of courses and technical offerings, both on demand and proactively, including:
- Technology test drives, boot camps, certification classes (including for Academic Initiative), developerWorks Live! events
- Porting and performance assistance, architectural review and technical consultancy, proof of technology and proof of concept support
- We encourage our Business Partners to use the IIC for their own marketing and sales purposes, product launches and more.
A world class facility
Our Centre is located at the IBM Technology Campus, and is the worldwide Centre for Cloud Computing.
- 5 project / engagement rooms
- 1 conference rooms
- 5 dedicated classrooms
- Hamilton Auditorium with seating capacity for up to 300 people
- Industry themed labs: RFID Lab, Lotus Lab, Cloud lab
Exceptional skill pool
With so many key technology labs and groups under one roof, the Dublin IBM Innovation Centre can call upon a deeply skilled resource pool in the following areas:
- Solution Architecting - Define and match customers business requirements with the appropriate technology. Design and lead the implementation of the solution
- Project Management - PMI Certified Project Managers
- WebSphere - WAS, WBIMB (Message Broker) and WMQ
- Development - JAVA (J2EE), C and C++
- DB2 Database Design & Architecture
- Information Management - DB2 & Data Modelling
- Lotus Product Suite Skills
- Tivoli Product Suite Skills
Technologies supported
System i, System p, System x, System z, SAN, Networking (Cisco, Juniper for example)
Infrastructure resources and skills:
- Advanced Datacentre Management techniques, optimisation, virtualisation, geo thermal mapping and more
- Cloud Computing – IBM Blue Cloud
- RFID and Remote sensing
- High bandwidth infrastructure
- Private network separate from internal IBM network
- VPN support to allow remote working