University Alliances Community in the News!

As organizations are increasingly turning to enterprise resource planning systems, the University of Scranton has added a specialization to its online MBA program.

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee migrated its SAP Hosting Center to IBM Cloud-ready hardware and software.  The school switched its system from Oracle and Dell products to IBM cloud-ready infrastructure.  Read more on IBM's press release or at govtech.com

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As more and more companies are taking on business analytics - to maintain a cutting edge and be better prepared - a demand for managers with skills required for Business Analytics has been created - leading to a short supply of rightly trained resources. The demand is huge and expected to grow in emerging markets like India. The other emerging and in demand domain is SAP ERP package available globally. It provides integration among various business functions sales/marketing, production, finance, HR etc and is currently the leading choice of companies ranging from production to HR to eGovernance.

Read more at pagalguy.com

Frostburg State University has joined the SAP® University Alliances program, a global endeavor that provides university faculty members with the tools and resources to teach how technology can enable integrated business processes and strategic thinking. Students gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art enterprise resource planning software and develop skills relevant to their careers and chosen fields.

IT professionals with profound knowledge of SAP products and the ability to create individual enterprise solutions for customers are getting more and more rare; jobs are vacant and salaries for top experts have gone up dramatically. "SAP architects and sales experts are very hard to find," said Les Berridge, an executive with the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Alan Bowling, Chairman of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group, said that the SAP University Alliance Program provided an excellent way of learning SAP expertise. (Original in German) 

Read more at IT Espresso (Germany)

Even in today's high-tech world, many of us don't know about SAP, the worldwide market leader in enterprise business software. But if you have an iPad and order on iTunes, find those trendy Skullcandy earbuds in stock, or enter the Disneyland gates, those experiences are all happening on SAP software.

Sandra Mollberg, who will graduate in December with a Master of Science in Management with a concentration in Information Technology Management, received the Lubar Scholarship, which she credits with helping her "focus on her education and career."As one of only five SAP University Competence Centers (UCC) in the world, the Lubar School of Business at UWM is helping to keep students competitive in the global marketplace by providing them with critical SAP education.

Read more at UWM News.

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Madrid-based IE Business School will join SAP University Alliances, launching the program in Spain. The company also welcomed top-ranked French university SUPINFO to the program. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd, being held as co-located events in Madrid from November 8-10.

IE Business School is the first SAP University Alliances program member in Spain. To launch the program in the country, an official signing ceremony is scheduled for November 11, 2011, to be held at the German Chamber of Commerce for Spain in Madrid. Government and industry representatives along with professors and lecturers from academic institutions will attend.

Read more at SAP Newsroom.

SAP (NYSE: SAP) - a market leader in enterprise application software - on Thursday presented the SAP University Alliances Program certificates to three institutions in Vietnam namely RMIT Vietnam, Vietnamese-German University, and University of Economics and Law (Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City).

Read more on SGGP English edition.

Heino Schrader, SAP University Alliances EMEA, received this year's honorary award of the University Duisburg Essen on November 4th. Schrader who leads the UA program in the EMEA region particularly contributed in establishing an exclusive e-learning program for students  

Read the article: Ehrenpreis der Universität Duisburg-Essen 2011 (German).

SAP AG  today announced that Madrid-based IE Business School will join SAP University Alliances, launching the program in Spain. The company also welcomed top-ranked French university SUPINFO to the program. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd, being held as co-located events in Madrid from November 8-10.

IE Business School is the first SAP University Alliances program member in Spain. To launch the program in the country, an official signing ceremony is scheduled for November 11, 2011, to be held at the German Chamber of Commerce for Spain in Madrid. Government and industry representatives along with professors and lecturers from academic institutions will attend.

Read the entire article from the SAP NEWSBYTE.

Covenant University (CU), Otta, Ogun State, has partnered German software manufacturing firm, SAP, to equip graduates of the institution with technological skills necessary to compete in the economy.

According to the partners, the affiliation, which is in two levels, Corporate Master's Programme and SAP University Alliances, will enable graduates of Covenant University possess essential business and technological skills, to enjoy significant advantage over their peers.

Read the rest of the aricle on The Nation.