Today SAP announced the launch of the SAP University Alliances community. I am honored to have responsibility for the University Alliances program as part of the larger Industry and Influencer Relations organization, at SAP.
The newly launched SAP University Alliances community is an advanced portal (hosted on the SAP community network) designed for the academic population worldwide (faculty and students) to access the latest academic resources that bring real-life SAP knowledge and skills into university classrooms. It provides a forum for SAP to deliver higher education content supplied by SAP and community participants, including interactive academic resources, such as course lectures, case studies, exercises, demonstrations and videos; thought leadership forums; and community blogs. The community is designed to facilitate faculty and student collaboration and contribution, job posting and search, as well as networking with SAP customers and partners. Skills development and career opportunities for university students, professors and other community participants are the central focus of the site.
Through this effort, SAP University Alliances member faculty and students now have the ability to collaborate and interact with an active group of 1.5 million SAP customers, partners and employees that make up the larger SAP community network.
The new community is a central component of the long-standing SAP University Alliances program that today works with nearly 900 member campuses in more than 40 countries supported by 3,500+ professors and university faculty who provide 185,000+ students first-hand experience with SAP software each year. Our goal with this community is to dramatically increase the number of universities that participate in the University Alliances program to bring 1,000,000+ students into the greater SAP ecosystem over the next three years.
The announcement today represents a great milestone not only for SAP University Alliances but also for SAP’s Industry and Influencer Relations program, as a whole. As I discussed in a blog post last year (The Evolution of Industry and Influencer Relations at SAP – Part Two), universities play a unique and important role in the global economy and represent perhaps the most strategic component of the larger Industry and Influencer program design.
Today’s announcement is the result of tremendous effort and milestone that will benefit not only SAP but also our larger and very much valued ecosystem of customers and partners!
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