IBM Innovation Centers

The Public Sector Lab provides an integrated showcase of solutions from Business Partners with proven solutions in the Public Sector market. The lab brings together IBM technologies and leading edge applications to help Business Partners and their clients explore new possibilities in the burgeoning Public Sector. By utilising the skills of our consultants, you can introduce new products faster, help your clients better optimize their inventory and product availability, and improve operational efficiencies throughout their organization. Our consultants can also help you enable, test or validate your solutions for IBM Government Industry Framework.

The Green Lab helps Business Partners run their business in a carbon sensitive world. Talk to software and infrastructure specialists who are working with Business Partners and customers. Hear about other energy saving initiatives and solutions. See hardware and software used to monitor and manage energy consumption in the data centre. View power metering as it relates to machine room feeds, individual racks, servers, multi-tier test environments and business functions.

The Hursley Retail Innovations Lab is an integrated showcase of solutions from Business Partners who have successfully completed the Ready for IBM Retail Integration Framework validation process. Retail Integration Framework can help retailers launch new multichannel possibilities, discover insights and provide a more personalized, relationship-driven experience for their customers, introduce new products faster, better optimize their inventory and product availability, and improve operational efficiencies throughout their organization. Our consultants can help you enable, test or validate your solutions for IBM Ready for Retail Integration Framework.

The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Lab helps Business Partners and customers explore how the technology works. You can learn how customers are using RFID and how WebSphere Premises Server integrates it into a service oriented architecture. Solutions from key Business Partners are demonstrated.

The Telco Lab helps Business Partners satisfy the demand from operators for innovative solutions that leverage the capabilities of next generation networks. It shows you how existing WebSphere-based solutions can be easily enhanced to support application delivery through operator networks. Our IT consultants can help you design, build and test your solution to work with WebSphere telecommunications products.

The Innovation Theatre boasts a 6.5m x 1.8m projection screen that allows multiple new technologies to be presented to 40 people. It has a backdrop of the illuminated glass front showcase machine room where customers can view machines that are running live demonstrations.

The theatre has its own refreshment area and provides the ideal environment for networking over lunch.

This facility is available to Advanced and Premier Business Partners using and meeting the requirements of the client events package benefit, and is subject to availability.

Request to use the Innovation Theatre