welcome to jStart®

By: Spence

This June, jstart turns 15. For the past decade and a half, the team has been champions of new technologies--initially, internally to IBM, and then evolving into a much broader mission of exploring emerging technologies for the company. What makes jStart's story special, however, is the manner in which the team explores those technologies: with a singular focus on client engagements. You see, jStart is run as a small business--it has to largely pay it's own way by creating solutions with emerging technologies, then finding customers who not only need the technology, but are willing to pay for them. It's a model that's relatively unique in the industry, and one which jStart has been highly successful at.

To kick things off, we are creating a series of five articles--the first focusing on jStart's past, the second through forth focusing on what jStart does today, and the last focusing on jStart preparing for the future. Each article will be released over the course of the year, today we have the first two available. Read more about what we've done over the past 15 years, as well as one of the most interesting teams within jStart, focusing on R&D and filling market opportunity gaps.

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one client's experience

Learn how jStart worked with one of the world's leading research institutes to explore how big data and social data analytics could solve real business needs.

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Start Small, Grow Fast

Learn how the jStart team can help your business get started using our "start small, grow fast" engagement process. Today's business challenges aren't just about huge amounts of information...it's about understanding the valuable insights and opportunities living within that data, and then executing in intelligent ways leveraging those insights. It's about, in essence, a smarter planet.