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IBM
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is a globally integrated enterprise
Company
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operating in 170 countries. IBM's R&D history in Israel
History of IBM Research in Israel
Established back in 1972 as the IBM Israel Scientific Center, the IBM Haifa Research Lab has grown from three researchers to over five hundred employees, including regular staff members and many students. The IBM Haifa Research Lab is located in a custom-built complex on the University of Haifa...
began in 1972 when Professor Josef Raviv established the IBM Israel Scientific Center in the Technion's Computer Science Building in Haifa
Haifa
Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
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Today, over 1000 individuals work at IBM R&D locations across Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, including Haifa, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
, Herzliya
Herzliya
Herzliya is a city in the central coast of Israel, at the western part of the Tel Aviv District. It has a population of 87,000 residents. Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, Herzliya covers an area of 26 km²...
, Rehovot
Rehovot
Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2009 the city had a total population of 112,700. Rehovot's official website estimates the population at 114,000.Rehovot was built on the site of Doron,...
, and the Jerusalem Technology Park
Jerusalem Technology Park
Jerusalem Technology Park , also Malha Technology Park is a high-tech industrial park located in Malha neighborhood in southhwest Jerusalem, Israel....
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IBM research and development activities in Israel include a number of labs.
Haifa Research Lab
HRL handles projects in the spheres of cloud computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/tc20071116_379585.htm http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23448.wss, healthcare
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
and life sciences, verification technologies
Software verification
Software verification is a broader and more complex discipline of software engineering whose goal is to assure that software fully satisfies all the expected requirements.There are two fundamental approaches to verification:...
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/dept/svt/index.html http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/dept/vst/index.html, multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
, active management http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/dept/services/stes.html, information retrieval
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/dept/imt/ir.html, programming environments http://www.haifa.ibm.com/dept/services/index.html, business transformation
Business transformation
Business transformation is the fundamental change to the way a business operates, whether that be moving into a new market or operating in a new way It is an approach that attempts to align an organisation's activities relating to people, process and technology more closely with its business...
, and optimization technologies http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/dept/services/abo.html. HRL is the biggest IBM research center
IBM Research
IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects....
outside the US.
Systems and Technology Group Lab
STG incorporates the former Haifa Development Lab and develops advanced technologies for IBM's Server and Technology Group. The STG Lab in Israel is involved in three major activities: storage technology, de-duplicationData deduplication
In computing, data deduplication is a specialized data compression technique for eliminating coarse-grained redundant data. The technique is used to improve storage utilization and can also be applied to network data transfers to reduce the number of bytes that must be sent across a link...
software, and chip design.
Working closely with the Israeli hi-tech community and recent IBM acquisitions in Israel, the STG Lab serves as a focal point for building a storage ecosystem in Israel. The lab also works closely with the XIV team in IBM. Its three main departments are Hardware Development, Storage Systems Development, and Diligent Technologies.
Israel Software Lab
ILSL develops software for real-time collaboration http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/ilsl/rtc.shtml, content discovery http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/ilsl/cde.shtml and text analyticsText analytics
The term text analytics describes a set of linguistic, statistical, and machine learning techniques that model and structure the information content of textual sources for business intelligence, exploratory data analysis, research, or investigation. The term is roughly synonymous with text mining;...
, metadata
Metadata
The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
management http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/ilsl/metadata.shtml, application security
Application security
Application security encompasses measures taken throughout the application's life-cycle to prevent exceptions in the security policy of an application or the underlying system through flaws in the design, development, deployment, upgrade, or maintenance of the application.Applications only...
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/ilsl/as.shtml, and SOA
Service-oriented architecture
In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...
http://www.haifa.ibm.com/ilsl/soa.shtml. The teams work closely with the Lotus
Lotus Sametime
IBM Sametime is a client–server application and middleware platform that provides real-time, unified communications and collaboration for enterprises. Those capabilities include presence information, enterprise instant messaging, web conferencing, community collaboration, and telephony capabilities...
, Information Management, Rational
Rational Software
Rational Machines was founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development...
, and WebSphere
IBM WebSphere
IBM WebSphere refers to a brand of computer software products in the genre of enterprise software known as "application and integration middleware". These software products are used by end-users to create applications and integrate applications with other applications...
brands in IBM's Software Group.
List of Israeli companies acquired by IBM
In recent years IBM acquired over a dozen Israeli technology companies, which have been subsequently incorporate into IBM R&D Labs in Israel, they include:| Company | |Acquisition Date | |Value (USD United States dollar The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies.... ) |
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| Ubique | Developer of instant messaging Instant messaging Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet... and collaboration products, its functions integrated into IBM Lotus Sametime IBM Lotus Sametime IBM Sametime is a client–server application and middleware platform that provides real-time, unified communications and collaboration for enterprises. Those capabilities include presence information, enterprise instant messaging, web conferencing, community collaboration, and telephony capabilities... product |
May 19, 1998 | |
| iPhrase Systems | US-based iPhrase had an R&D center in Jerusalem with 30 employees. The US company acquired its activity in Israel when it merged with Banter Systems, a start-up that developed software for automated classification of texts. | November 1, 2005 | |
| Unicorn Solutions | Developer of software for metadata Metadata The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at... management, The company’s product provides metadata repository, ontology modeling, semantic mapping, active design services, and federated business querying services. |
May 5, 2006 | $10 million |
| WatchFire | US-based flagship product AppScan, was developed by Sanctum, an Israeli company acquired by WatchFire in 2004. AppScan is a solution for integrate application security, now renamed IBM Rational AppScan IBM Rational AppScan IBM Rational AppScan is a family of web security testing and monitoring tools from the Rational Software division of IBM. AppScan is intended to test Web applications for security vulnerabilities during the development process, when it is least expensive to fix such problems... |
July 20, 2007 | |
| I-Logix I-Logix I-Logix was a leading provider of Collaborative Model driven development solutions for systems design through software development focused on real-time embedded applications. Founded in 1987, the Andover, Massachusetts-based company product line enhanced collaboration among engineers, graphically... |
Developer of collaborative Model driven development (MDD) solutions, acquired by IBM via the acquisition of Telelogic Telelogic Telelogic AB was a software business headquartered in Malmö, Sweden. Telelogic was founded in 1983 as a research and development arm of Televerket, the Swedish department of telecom . It was later acquired by IBM Rational, and exists under the IBM software group.Telelogic had operations in 22... . Its flagship products now renamed IBM Rational Rhapsody and IBM Rational Statemate |
April 3, 2008 | |
| XIV | High-end disk storage products now renamed IBM XIV Storage System IBM XIV Storage System - Overview :The IBM XIV Storage System is a high-end disk storage server designed to provide high performance, scalability, and availability in disk storage... |
January 2, 2008 | |
| FileX | Disk-based backup and recovery solutions | April 10, 2008 | |
| Diligent Technologies | Data De-duplication | April 18, 2008 | $200 million |
| Guardium Guardium, an IBM Company Guardium, an IBM Company, headquartered in the United States, provides real-time database security and monitoring solutions to safeguard enterprise data and address regulatory compliance requirements.... |
Provider of real-time database security and monitoring solutions to safeguard enterprise data and address regulatory compliance requirements. | November 30, 2009 | $225 million |
| Storwize | Provider of data compression Data compression In computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation would use.... solutions |
July 29, 2010 | $140 million |