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IBM Opens CoE At Six Colleges In Maharashtra
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Students in the state get an opportunity to learn new skill sets on the IBM software products – DB2, WebSphere, Lotus, Rational and Tivoli.
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Monday, August 10, 2009:
IBM today announced new and extended collaborations with six engineering and technology colleges across the state of Maharashtra to provide a platform for development of software skills amongst the students. The collaboration has brought the establishment of a series of IBM Centres of Excellence (CoE), creating an opportunity for students to learn new skill sets on the IBM software products – DB2, WebSphere, Lotus, Rational and Tivoli – as well as develop world-class solutions, the company explains.
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The CoEs were launched at Singahad Institute of Technology (Pune), Walchand College of Engineering (Sangli), International Institute of Information Mgmt (I2IT, Pune), Maharashtra Academy of Engineering (Pune), Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (Mumbai), and Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering, NMIMS University (Mumbai).
IBM will follow a two-pronged approach: providing the colleges with access to technologies relevant to the market and with training faculty to ensure that right skills are taught. The students can gain first-hand experience of the software products that are installed at the campus. Through this initiative, IBM will work closely with the colleges in the state of Maharashtra, leveraging the selected institutes as centres of learning.
Anil Menon, VP, channel, marketing and ecosystem, IBM India/South Asia, said, “Through the Centres of Excellence, IBM works closely with the educational institutions in India to give students the opportunity to put skills to test and allows innovation to take centre stage. We are confident that the CoEs will enable skill set development amongst students for years to come.”
The colleges will provide infrastructure and high-end systems while IBM will provide the entire software suite free of charge.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Vijay Bhatkar, director and chief mentor, I2IT, “Innovation and R&D plays a strategic role in the business. There is a need for the industry and academia to collaborate to create a multi-cultural ecosystem that stimulates young minds; on one hand acclimatising them with a culture of innovation and on the other, exposing them to new and emerging technologies. We look forward to joint collaboration with IBM which will give students an opportunity to partner with some of the best minds across the world, to further refine these technologies by taking it to the next level.”
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