IBM jStart

Founded in 1997, IBM's jStart team has acted as a vital link between emerging technologies and the complex yet fast paced world of international business. It has created prototypes and solutions for companies around the world, and has frequently launched the first implementations of technologies for introduction into the enterprise.

History of jStart

jStart was originally founded as a vehicle to engage and validate Java technology with customers/clients. It has since broadened its mission to covering the much wider concept of “emerging internet technologies”.

Some of the accomplishments of jStart:

• Successfully promoted and championed Java to the enterprise
• Evolved from that evangelism mission to introduce new and emerging internet techs into IBM and to customers/clients
• Technologies jStart lead the adoption of: S.O.A., XML, Web Services, Web 2.0+, and now Mashup Technologies

About jStart

To date, jStart has had during it’s 11+ years of operation over 100 unique customer/clients interactions each year.

• Clients range from Fortune 50 companies to SMB (small and medium sized businesses) and governmental agencies, organizations – basically anyone who is interested in emerging internet technologies
• Typical engagement lasts from weeks to months leveraging proven jStart processes, which make them low risk engagements
• Over the past 11 years, jStart has developed a series of processes to successfully engage its customers and clients

jStart has been instrumental in aiding IBM explore the relevancy and value of emerging technologies into the enterprise—in the form of a small, agile, tiger team of emerging technology experts—which we call jStart (given the rapid dynamics of the emerging technologies it’s appropriate that even the name of the team has been abbreviated from “jump start” to “jStart”). But it also has provided something else just as invaluable as market validation for emerging technologies: it has provided real world examples of how these technologies can be leveraged, today, to solve real business world challenges