IBM has announced Services Center in France: stakes around 700 New Tech Roles for Local Market.

IBM continues its expansion in Europe with the final goal to beat Oracle and consolidate its portfolio of services and products: Bigdata, cloud and mobile business technologies.

Since Jun, 24, 2013, it is henceforth official, IBM announced a new
services center in the city of Lille that will create up to 700 French language IT roles in the coming three to five years.

These new services center will enable IBM to deliver an industry-leading range of technology services to clients across France.

This means that IBM Services Center Lille will provide local clients with high value application development, application maintenance and systems integration services that address the increasing demand for flexible software capability to harness the benefits of emerging Big Data, cloud and mobile business technologies.

Regarding IBM's French client’s , they will receive skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology, and provide direct proximity while working in tandem with IBM's globally integrated capability network.

‘’This investment in job creation to deliver new client value reflects IBM's commitment to providing the next-generation workforce with the advanced skills and expertise needed to drive innovation and adoption of emerging technologies,’’. ‘’The new center aims to position Lille as a leader in the global technology sector and follows the creation of France Lab and the first center of public cloud in Montpellier, which together will provide high-value technology services to clients across France.’’

IBM has also promise that, the center will work with local universities to support development of the computer science curriculum and help the next generation of IT talent secure world class training.

“We are really pleased to welcome IBM at EuraTechnologies, a center of technological excellence, which is growing since 2009, and now counts 130 organizations,” says Pierre de Saintignon, 1^st Deputy of the Nord Pas de Calais Regional Council, 1^st Deputy Mayor of LILLE, and Chairman of EuraTechnologies.

Recruitment planning for the new positions will begin in July with collaboration with Universities and Pôle-Emploi, an organisation for job seekers.

If interested details about IBM Services Center Lille can be found at: www.ibm.com/fr/lilleexperience