[ Articles with keyword 'School' ]
The University of Galaţi Achieves By Academis an Integrated Student Lifecycle Management with SAP Business All-in-One
03.04.2009
The University of Galaţi in Romania is organized into 20 faculties, including two colleges and more than 30 departments. In the past, the school’s highly decentralized structure made it difficult to leverage IT to run efficient, integrated academic and business processes.
Innovation with Design Thinking
09.09.2008
Stanford University and the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) have announced a research partnership in which they will investigate innovation processes. The joint research program is planned to run for eight years with a total budget of $16 million (approximately €10.7 million).
Helping Homework Go Online
28.05.2008
Ten years ago, in a ninth floor office overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, George Cigale, CEO of Tutor.com, decided to change the face of online education by providing one-to-one online tutoring. Today, Tutor.com’s online tutoring service has consistent post-session approval ratings of 94 percent among students of all ages. And organizations such as Verizon, General Motors, Random House and Intel are now offering Tutor.com’s live homework help as a benefit to their employees. SAP INFO online talks to Cigale about what it takes to move education into the 21st century.
Handling Accountability Issues
26.03.2008
Polk County School District, the eighth-largest school district in Florida, replaced a cumbersome and insecure password system with innovative, biometric technology available for SAP software.
SAP Community Fights Hunger
28.11.2007
SAP AG today announced a ground-breaking new recognition program for members of the SAP Developer Network (SDN) and Business Process Expert communities. Beginning January 1, 2008, community member participation will be rewarded with a donation to the United Nations World Food Programme’s Food for Education.
Learning for Life
05.09.2007
Well educated graduates with an in-depth understanding of business processes and SAP software are the key to the future – both for SAP and its customers and partners. The SAP University Alliances team brings together SAP, institutes of higher education, and the world of business.
School District Installs Biometric Identity Management in its SAP Solutions
05.05.2007
realtime North America, Inc. has announced that its award-winning bioLock software has been installed by the Polk County School District in Florida.
“Online Communities Are Darwinistic”
28.03.2007
Online communities have lost their exclusivity. The appearance of various kinds of malicious behavior means technology geeks no longer feel at home on their own patch. Time to give some serious thought to the issue of netiquette and the controllability of technological innovations, says Howard Rheingold, Internet veteran and author of Smart Mobs, (published in 2002).
Students Take on Business Transparency in Transatlantic Teamwork
04.12.2006
SAP AG announced the latest in an ongoing series of projects enabling students to learn and collaborate in a realistic, cross-cultural and complex business environment. Today at SAP’s offices in Berlin and the Indiana University campus in Bloomington, students from the German Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences and the Kelly School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington are presenting the results of their three-month collaborative efforts. Their task: designing business processes and best practices to chart a successful course for a fictional company facing an unfortunately all-too-common real-world challenge – recovering from past and preventing future corporate corruption cases.
“Brainstorming Is a Skill You Can Learn”
08.11.2006
BrainStore has created an atmosphere in which a wealth of ideas can be produced systematically in record time. Brainstorming specialists, such as Markus Mettler, co-founder of BrainStore, control this industrial process and make sure that the idea machine in Switzerland runs efficiently day in day out.
