team is ibm s primary client engagement group for emerging internet technologies . the team is part of ibm software solutions group and is a component of the emerging technologies team . jstart is responsible for creating prototypes and solutions for companies around the world and has frequently launched the first implementations of technologies for introduction into the enterprise . 1 ibm s jstart type public industry internet computer software headquarters rtp north carolina united states area served worldwide key people rod smith vp emerging internet technologies ed elze program director jstart number of employees 27 july 19 2013 slogan solutions start here . website www.ibm.com jstart contents 1 history of jstart 2 about jstart 3 notes 4 external links history of jstart edit jstart was originally founded as a vehicle to engage and validate java technology with customers clients . in 1999 it broadened its mission to covering the much wider concept of emerging internet technologies . historical timeline of technologies jstart has been involved in 1997 java promoted and championed java to large enterprise environments 1999 beyond java evolved from that evangelism mission to introduce new and emerging internet techs into ibm and to ibm s customers clients by validating emerging technologies with a client engagement model . 2001 s.o.a. xml 2004 web services 2006 web 2.0 in the enterprise web 2.0 goes to work 2007 ria rich internet applications 2009 mashup technologies 2010 big data very large data analytics cross platform mobile development 2011 watson commercialization deepqa machine learning 2012 social analytics big data analytics applied to social data 2013 ibm bluemix a next gen xaas cloud platform what differentiates the team from other ibm groups is how jstart validates emerging technologies it is the primary engagement vehicle for ibm to validate emerging technologies while those technologies are in their emergent stage for enterprise business environments . because of this jstart was the first to introduce these technologies into large fortune 500 it infrastructures as well as smaller smb environments by addressing existing business needs rather than theoretical r & d business scenarios . currently the team is working to commercialize ibm s watson system and is a proponent of cloud offerings . the team is also investigating the role sophisticated data analytic technologies leveraging web based platforms as enterprise solutions including the use of hadoop and text analytic solutions such as ibm s bigsheets system developed by ibm s emerging technologies research team . 2 about jstart edit the jstart team has developed a model in which customer engagements drive its exploration of emerging technologies . it does this by engaging hundreds of clients per year to validate emerging technology priorities using a client driven development model instead of a research driven model . jstart has used this model for each of the technologies it has helped to launch and or develop . a number of technologies the team has worked with have gone on to graduate into open source projects have become ibm products or have been licensed to third parties . other less successful technologies were discontinued when it was determined that based on client customer engagements those technologies were not applicable to enterprise environments . 3 notes edit the history of jstart ibm s jstart website history accessed february 1 2011 . jstart on the horizon ibm s jstart website on the horizon technologies accessed july 13 2011 . the jstart process start small grow fast ibm s jstart website process accessed february 1 2011 . external links edit bluemix for app developers bluemix launches in south korea retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ibm jstart & oldid 625657222 categories ibmhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 september 2014 at 13 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view