Intelligent Software Spurs New Jobs

IBM to Create Up to 100 News Jobs as Part of IDA Backed €25 million Investment in Dublin, Cork and Galway

IBM has announced plans  to expand its Ireland Development Lab in a 3 year €25m collaborative investment with the Irish Development Authority (IDA).

The Ireland Lab is one of more than 80 IBM research and development laboratories around the world, providing intelligent software that serve business purposes in many industries such as healthcare, energy, telecommunications, transportation, retail and public services. The expansion will see it produce intelligent software, which helps lower cost of operations; generate intelligence for quick growth; and build closer business relationships with customers, partners and colleagues.

As part of the expansion upto 100 new jobs will be created for high value software engineering work in Dublin Cork and Galway.  These software engineers will focus on designing enterprise cloud computing software, as well as Service Management and database software with business analytic capabilities.

Welcoming today's announcement Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan T.D said, "This is wonderful news coming from the largest information technology company in the world. This knowledge-driven investment is highly significant for Ireland. The benefits are tremendous in terms of the highly sophisticated software technology that will be developed, the highly skilled positions that will be created and the endorsement by a world industry leader that Ireland is helping to fulfil IBM's global research, development and business strategy."

Talking at the launch, Michael Daly, General Manager, IBM Ireland, "Today's announcement highlights Ireland as an important place to help fulfil our global research, development and business strategy. The software will be standardised and customised by customer demands." Meanwhile, colleague Dennis King, Vice President for Advanced Collaboration Development at IBM said, "We are committed to extending our collaboration and database technologies to meet the growing need in the market."

IBM will expand the lab in three main areas including information development, database and cloud computing software:

• Establishing a new software development team in Dublin to work on the creation and testing of the next generation of IBM's DB2 database software, which is used to gather and analyse information about their business and subsequently make informed business decisions. This new team builds on the existing capabilities in the Ireland Lab in DB2 Database development, and will deliver industry specific data warehouse architectures for banking, insurance, telecommunications, retail and healthcare.

• Creating a new cloud computing software development team to work on IBM LotusLive offerings, which is a suite of cloud-delivered online technologies for business. LotusLive provides essential collaboration services to simplify and improve daily business interactions with customers, partners and colleagues. Designed with security in mind, LotusLive Connections and LotusLive Engage provide social networking capabilities such as Web conferencing, file storing and sharing, content management, live chat, and business forms.

• Creating a Centre of Excellence for Information Development to support a number of software products across IBM Tivoli software which delivers solutions to multiple industries such as telecommunications, banking, pharmaceuticals and aerospace

Today, enterprise computing software is commonly used as a service, and the Lab in Ireland addresses real-world issues such as environment protection projects and maritime affairs. For example, earlier in the year, IBM and the Marine Institute Ireland announced a SmartBay program using an ensemble of cloud computing software to monitor wave conditions, marine life and pollution levels in Galway Bay. It turns mountains of data into intelligence and helps with fishermen activities and future development of the bay.

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