China Development Lab

Founded in 1999, China Development Lab (CDL) is affiliated to IBM Software Group. It dedicates itself to providing Chinese customers with software and hardware products, technologies and solutions on demand of the local requirements. As communication bridge connecting China software industry to the world, CDL brings in advanced technologies from the world and share with China software industry. In the era of innovation, CDL endeavors to fulfill its promise to be the innovator to China IT industry innovation, technology supporter to customer business innovation, human resource education center to business model transformation, and platform to provide value added services. Through its open policy, that is to share its resources in areas of human resource, technology and research, CDL demonstrates its commitment to be the partner of Chinese customer innovation.

During the past 8 years, CDL has continuously attracted excellent technical and management talents from all over the world and made great efforts to build teams together with native cooperation partners. At present, CDL is based in Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei respectively.? The number of employees working in the core R&D teams of CDL has grown from 100 plus at the very beginning to over 3000 today, which makes CDL become the biggest software development center of multinational corporations in China and one of the five biggest development labs of IBM in the world.

With the rapid growth of China’s domestic market, CDL will further launch into various product developments and provide on demand solutions, in addition to keeping carrying out the development of existing product series.?Facing the new challenges and opportunities, IBM China Development Lab, together with China’s many business partners and customers, will inaugurate a brand new Collaborative Innovation Era and create a splendent future of the information

China Research Laboratory

The IBM China Research Laboratory (CRL) was established in September 1995 and is one of the eight worldwide IBM Research laboratories. Located in Zhongguancun Software Park at Shangdi District, in the northwest of Beijing, CRL has been growing steadily and currently employs over 200 research staff members who are holding Ph.D and master’s degree, and join IBM from leading universities in China.

The Research at CRL ranges from infrastructure and middleware to services and solutions, which enables cross-pollination of ideas from a broad range of disciplines. The key themes include future systems, network technologies, high performance computing, information management, and next generation services. Based on industry insight and advanced technical skills, we also tackle business complexity through the innovative analytics and optimization technologies and asset management. It helps the above five Research Themes solve real industry applications of massive data computation and service operations.

The specific industry-oriented Innovation Centers at CRL are platforms for capitalizing a number of research assets and magnify the value for IBM. It helps researchers validate research technologies, trigger collaboration with IBM Business Units, and build industry insight as well.