IBM on Thursday launched a new Services Innovation and Research Centre in Bangalore that would focus on innovative technologies for improving IT services.
The centre would work in close collaboration with IBM's Global Services group to develop innovative technologies and solutions that improve their operational and delivery capabilities.
The centre would be an extended arm of IBM's New Delhi headquartered India Research Lab, one of the eight research labs of IBM worldwide, P Gopalakrishnan, director of IBM's IRL, told reporters.
He said the centre would draw upon resources from IRL and IBM's software and services organisations to focus on building technologies to add value to IBM's operations in the region as well as globally.
These technologies would address a wide scope of issues in the IT services landscape including workforce efficiency, asset reusability, improved methodologies and delivery capabilities on a global scale, he said.
The centre would also focus on enhancing IBM's "On Demand" offerings in the services business by developing tailor-made solutions for its delivery groups thereby adding greater value to the clients world over, he said.
Guruduth Banavar would head the new centre which would be staffed with researchers with a variety of background, including distributed computing, software engineering and knowledge management, as well as domain experts in the areas of IT services.
© 2026