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IBM’s technology leadership

The world’s largest:

– Information technology company

– Information technology research organization

– Business and technology services provider

– Information technology financing company

Operating in 180 countries across 6 continents globally

Patent leadership leads the way in open standards and open source

– Over 40,000 patents

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The IBM Academic Initiative was created to respond to the industry’s demand for IT skills, and to promote open standards worldwide

Partner with colleges and universities to drive open standards using open source and IBM technologies for teaching purposes



IBM Academic Initiative offerings

IBM middleware and tools

Access to IBM hardware

Course materials and textbooks

Curriculum assessment services

Education for faculty and IT staff

Certifications

Tutorials, articles and Redbooks

Forums, webcasts and newsletters



TGMC 2007 Objectives – Run in 24 States

Strengthen relationship with colleges and ensure IBM Middleware stays in the college labs for a duration. Build database of students who apply the knowledge of software in solving business problems Ensure students use IBM Middleware in their college projects Build IBM Middleware skilled students repository l across the country, helping business .

http://www-07.ibm.com/in/university/greatmind/tgmc_2007.html

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Project INVITE Objectives – Run in 4 States

Help build a repository of E-Governance solutions/prototypes, open source products and IBM Technologies and make it freely available to government agencies, solution providers and academia. Involve students for creating solutions for local , real time E-Governance

http://www.jobs4students.co.in/portal/index.php

Student Job Portal – Across India

Build database of IBM skilled student resumes Connect available IBM skill-set in the market to IBM and Business partners. Give Recruiters a platform to advertise openings for IBM skilled manpower



Student Job Portal : Repository of 1500 plus IBM skilled student resumes.

27 Recruiters registered on the site.

Activity TGMC 2007 INVITE 2007

Student registration 62400 1478

Faculty registration 5787 323

Colleges reached 1998 72

States covered 24 4 till date

3 Centre of Excellence ( CoE) established in 2007 in Rational, IM & Websphere



Curriculum consultation: Areas to consider

Programming: Consider using Eclipse or Rational Application Developer as an IDE (and don’t forget the huge COBOL install base!).

Introductory Programming: Are you currently using Java? If not, consider including Java in an introduction to programming class.

Software Engineering, Methodology, or OO Design: Consider using Rational modeling tools for labs.

Database: Consider including Derby, Cloudscape and DB2.

Operating Systems: Consider Linux.

Business Intelligence: Consider Data Warehouse and WebSphere.

Service Oriented Architecture: Consider cross brand products and tools.

Security Monitoring and Network Management: Consider Tivoli.

Internet Access and Protocol: Consider WebSphere.

IBM server technology as a “platform of choice”



Course Curriculum Inclusion – This year till now

Universities (07)No of Colleges (295)

Course IBM Technology/Tools

1Rajasthan Technical University, Raj.

25 MCA DB2

50B.Tech. (CS) B.Tech. (IT) SOA, ITIM

2 UPTU, UP 100 B.E. (IT) ITIM

3 RGPV, MP 115B.Tech. (CS) B.Tech. (IT) SOA

4 HNGU, Gujrat 2 MCA

DB2 WebSphere

Rational

5 Kalaslingam, TN 1 M.Tech. (CS) SOA, ITIM

6 BPTU, Orissa 1 M.Tech. (CS) SOA

7 IP University, Delhi 1 M.Tech. (CS) DB2



Professional certification

– ibm.com/certify

Student Opportunity System

– ibm.com/university/opportunitysystem

IBM’s resources for developers

– ibm.com/developerWorksibm.com/alphaWorks

Download IBM Courseware & Software

– ibm.com/university/academicinitiative

AI activities in India

– ibm.com/in/university

Important links



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