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SAP® UNIVERSITY

ALLIANCES PROGRAM – AMERICAS

SAP Services



For faculty and universities, the SAP® University Alliances program provides a multitude of benefits and opportunities.Universities offering hands-on experience with SAP software help increase graduate recruitment rates, making

member institutions hubs for the new talent needed in today’s global workforce. For students, a deeper understanding of SAP software can jump-start their careers by combining business process knowledge with en- terprise software expertise to develop the most valuable skills portfolio in the market today.

Empowering Tomorrow’s Work-force Through Education

Career-ready graduates, as part of aneducated workforce, are fundamentalfor competitiveness and success in to-day’s global business environment. Atregional and global levels, a combina-tion of business and information tech-nology (IT) skills, as well as industryexpertise, promote stability andeconomic growth.

However, with the increased need fora business- and IT-savvy workforce,caused in part by the accelerated needto innovate in business, industry ex-perts foresee a skills shortage in thecoming decade. Helping studentsdevelop 21st-century skills prior toentering the workforce is critical andprovides the opportunity for institutionsof higher learning to offer tailoredcurricula to build careers.

In fact, in a recent national poll in theUnited States,1 80% of registered vot-

ers queried said they believe thatschools can and should incorporate21st-century skills – such as thoseinvolving computers and technology,critical thinking, problem solving, com-munication, and self-direction – into thecurriculum. Computer and technologyskills ranked second in importance onlybehind reading comprehension.

The SAP University AlliancesProgram Helps Develop HighlySkilled Graduates

SAP, the world’s largest business appli-cations software company, supportseducation around the world in many

ways. Through advanced curricula andacademic research, the SAP University

Alliances program is helping to align thenext generation of business and IT

leaders, ready to take on new tech-nology and business model innovation.

To accomplish this, SAP provides itsbusiness software suite to hundreds ofuniversities and technical institutes inmore than 30 countries, for use in dis-ciplines such as business, IT, computerscience, and engineering.

By providing advanced technologies,such as those supporting next-generation IT architectures around keybusiness processes, the SAP Universi-ty Alliances program helps universitiesand technical institutes develop highlyqualified graduates who contribute tothe core competencies of their futureemployers.

1. National poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and Peter D. Hart Research Associates

on behalf of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills ( www.21stcenturyskills.org).



The program enables students at par-ticipating campuses to experience first-

hand how organizations operate, andhow integrated systems can help orga-nizations become more efficient, pro-ductive, and profitable. Students incourses supported by the SAP Univer-sity Alliances program gain hands-onexperience and valuable skill sets. Infact, graduates of these courses havea competitive advantage in the job mar-ket – including multiple career optionsin business and IT, more managerial op-portunities to lead across organizations

within companies, and higher salaries.

From a salary perspective, according toa U.S. Hewitt Associates LLC survey,“. . . [P]ay levels for SAP-skilled individ-uals have increased significantly in thepast 6 and 12 months. . . . As individu-als skilled in SAP [software] continueto receive pay increases and premiums

which outpace the market, Hewitt willcontinue to follow the pay trends ofthese highly sought after individuals.”2

“The SAP University Alliances

program benefits a variety of stakeholders. It gives students an

advantage in the job market and

higher salaries, and it offers SAP

customers and partners an ex-

cellent source of business pro-

cess and IT talent. Also, it con-

nects university faculty and

administrators with a world-

class organization and provides

faculty without IT/SAP expertise

an opportunity to apply their

subject-area knowledge into the

program.”

Dr. Raymond Boykin, Associate Dean,

California State University, Chico

SAP Curricula Offered AcrossDisciplines, Focused on BusinesProcesses

The SAP University Alliances programsupports educational efforts in a broa

range of disciplines, including accouning, finance, organizational manage-ment, operations management, suppchain management, marketing, busi-ness strategy, information systems,computer science, and engineering. addition, the program facilitates an ingrated curriculum – an innovative teaing approach that focuses on businesprocesses and international organizational and interorganizational integratand collaboration. With SAP supportmember campuses can develop more

sophisticated, market-experiencedgraduates who are better able to undstand and apply best-practices knowedge and skills in today’s globaleconomy.

Participating in the SAP University Aances program does not mean becoming a software training organization,however. Instead, SAP software isused to reinforce the concepts that aalready being taught. Through traditioal as well as digital delivery models, icluding demonstrations, simulations,exercises and problems, case studieand research projects, students canput theory into practice and enhancetheir educational experience. Considthe following examples:

2. “2007 SAP Skill Compensation Survey – Fall,” Hewitt Associates LLC, August 1, 2007.



• Accounting education goes beyondchalkboards and stand-alone applica-tions to make use of SAP’s fully inte-grated offering for financials.

• Finance students assess the impactof restructuring, mergers, and

acquisitions.• Organization management studentsdevelop a deep understanding of suc-cession planning, workforce develop-ment, and compensation planning.

• Operations management programsinclude comparisons of planningmethods, and integrate cost planningby using management accountingreports.

• Supply chain management studentsbuild supply networks and assess theimpact of different configurations and

sharing of information among part-ners in the supply chain.

• Marketing students develop pro-grams and campaigns with fully inte-grated cost management and resultsanalysis.

• Market research students make useof SAP’s robust business analytics toconduct segmentation studies anddetailed analyses.

• Capstone strategy and policy cours-es offer a robust, real-time businesssimulation competition among stu-dent groups – or across multiplecampuses.

• Computer science students studysystem architecture, use SAP’s de-

velopment workbench, and create advanced technology solutions.

• Engineering students work with plantlayouts and make use of SAP’s inte-gration with CAD/CAM to developan understanding of the integrationbetween design engineering andmanufacturing engineering.

Students in SAP University Alliances–supported programs use the samesoftware that SAP customers usearound the world – the SAP BusinessSuite family of business applicationsrunning on the SAP NetWeaver® tech-nology platform. This environment sup-ports all key business processes fromtransactional to management informa-tion reporting, business intelligenceand analytics, and strategic enterprisemanagement. Students who are keen

to further develop their skills, particu-larly those interested in becoming SAPconsultants, can take SAP certificationcourses.

Effective in 2008, SAP will offer a certi-fication academy (TERP10) that willserve as the global baseline certifica-tion standard for the SAP University

Alliances program. This will be availableto all students at SAP University

Alliances member schools in all regionsat a low cost to the student.

This hands-on baseline certification willprovide students with more breadthand a deeper understanding of all func-tional areas within SAP software. Whilethe certification academy allows stu-dents to appreciate the software’s

power through the use of processessupported by best practices, it also in-troduces the software’s flexibility, whichallows businesses to configure theirsoftware systems to meet their needs.

“When determining what our

faculty teaches and what hiring

companies need, it’s not about

technology alone. It’s about

understanding the business

process to achieve competitive

advantage through IT. The SAP

University Alliances approach

addresses this reality in a very

practical way.”

Dr. Jörg Becker, Professor, European Research

Center for Information Systems (ERCIS)



SAP University Alliances ProgramBenefits and Opportunities

The program delivers benefits and op-portunities to faculty, universities, andstudents, including the following.

Faculty EducationSAP provides workshops designedspecifically for the SAP University Alli-ances program. Sessions are deliveredby experienced facilitators from mem-ber campuses or by SAP topic experts.The workshops give participants a thor-ough understanding of the educationalstrategies and opportunities within theprogram, application-specific knowl-edge transfer, and robust curriculumcontent suitable for lectures, labs, stu-dent assignments, and case studies.Participants can determine which as-pects of SAP software are most fittingfor their own educational goals. Atten-dance at appropriate SAP customertraining courses also is possible.

Curriculum ContentTo help jump-start curriculum initiatives,

SAP funds the development of easy-to-use, high-quality course materials andmakes them available for download. Asa result, faculty new to the SAP Univer-sity Alliances program can easily createSAP-specific content for courses. De-

veloped by members with significantprogram experience, these course ma-terials are available in a range of aca-demic disciplines. Curriculum contenttypically includes classroom presenta-tions, exercises, problems, studenthandbooks, and instructor notes. Manycourses also include ready-to-useonline demos and content lectures.Members are free to use or modify thematerials to support their own custom-ized educational objectives.

Research and PublishingToday, researchers in marketing, fi-nance, accounting, and organizationatheory, among other disciplines, arestudying the impacts of advanced tecnology and trailblazing new directions

research and practice alike. Membership in the SAP University Alliancesprogram helps these researchers staconnected with peers with similar re-search interests and keep abreast ofthe latest developments in theirdisciplines.

To enhance research and publicationopportunities, for instance, one annuevent includes a research track from

which selected papers are publishedSAP also provides funding for academ

ic events and journals.

Faculty Professional DevelopmentOpportunitiesEach year, SAP sponsors a range ofevents for member campuses. Theseevents bring together academics fromaround the world to exchange ideasand best practices, explore educationinnovation, and present research onnew directions in business and technogy. At venues in multiple countries,the events feature workshops, discussion groups, and focused sessions oganized around a variety of themes adiscipline-related topics and issues.



SAP also encourages collaboration toimprove education and research, help-ing members build professional net-works and connect with colleagues atSAP-sponsored events such as the an-nual Curriculum Congress in the Ameri-

cas, the annual user group meetings inEurope, and the Curriculum Congressin Asia. With hundreds of membercampuses actively involved in the SAPUniversity Alliances program, the col-laborative opportunities are extensive.Members work together on such un-dertakings as research, publishing, cur-riculum development, and intercampusbusiness simulations. As a result, stu-dents from different campuses aroundthe globe have opportunities to collabo-rate on virtual team projects.

Educational Hosting ServicesSAP has established university compe-tency centers (UCCs) around the worldto eliminate the need for individual cam-puses to make large investments intechnical infrastructures and operation-al staffing. Connections to SAP soft-ware systems at a UCC are madethrough Internet browsers or the SAPgraphical user interface (GUI). Programmembers can easily access SAP soft-ware systems via a browser or the GUIfrom anywhere and at any time.

Innovation WatchSAP offers a portal called “Innovation

Watch” where program members canfind the latest information on research,curriculum materials, and SAP-hostedevents. Included are presentation mate-rials and research papers from SAP-sponsored events. This also is theplace where faculty can downloadcourse materials and view or downloadready-to-use online content.

For More Information

The SAP University Alliances programhas team members positioned in manycountries around the globe who arededicated to assisting campuses inachieving educational excellence. Formore information about the SAP Uni-

versity Alliances program, pleasesend an e-mail [email protected].



SAP® University Alliances ProgramOfferings for the Americas Region

SAP offers free software licenses toinstitutions. In the United States, Cana-da, and Latin America, member cam-

puses pay an annual hosting fee percalendar year to the university compe-tency center providing the hostedsoftware services. Hosting sites andcompetency centers are located at theUniversity of Wisconsin, Milwaukee(Dr. William [Dave] Haseman) andCalifornia State University, Chico(Dr. Raymond Boykin).

Regional events include the CurriculumCongress (spring), SAP® University

Alliances program workshops (winter

break, summer break, and springsemester), and the SAPPHIRE®conference in Orlando, Florida,May 4–7, 2008.

A basic consulting certification courseand follow-up exam may be offered tostudents of member campuses whohave taken a minimum of three courses

with at least 30% SAP content in eachand have passed with a grade of C or

higher. The classes may be offered on-site if warranted by the number of stu-dents taking the course; otherwise,students have the option of participat-ing when the SAP University Alliancesprogram offers the course.

Collaborative research with universitiesincludes curriculum development andproduct pilots in North America in con-

junction with SAP Research.

The program has representatives in the

United States, Canada, and Latin America.



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