Top Universities Choose Sterling Software's Enterprise Modeling Tool For Higher Learning
PLANO, Texas, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Sterling Software's (NYSE: SSW - news) Applications Development Division University Program partners with over 60 universities to teach students the critical skills necessary for enterprise application development with COOL products. Graduates are entering the job market skilled in the latest technologies for enterprise development from business modeling to application delivery and implementation. As a part of the University Program, several leading business schools are using COOL:Biz(TM) to teach concepts and methods of information requirements determination, systems analysis, and business process design.
Southern Methodist University and the University of Minnesota use Sterling Software's COOL:Biz to educate their business students in the latest technology for enterprise modeling, business process modeling, entity relationship modeling, object modeling, IS strategic planning and IS architectures. In many instances, corporate sponsors actively participate in the curriculum and utilize the University Program as a resource pool to recruit graduates into their organizations with drastically reduced training time.
Students taking Systems Analysis and Design classes at Southern Methodist University's (SMU) Cox School of Business are using COOL:Biz on actual customer projects. These projects range from the creation of web sites to the development of database applications. ''A high percentage of IS projects fail because work practices and business processes are poorly understood by both IS professionals and their customers,'' said Ulrike Schultze, assistant professor in management information sciences at SMU's Cox School of Business. ''COOL:Biz allows our students and their customers to visualize and communicate how work is done and how data flows through the organization. This helps them identify redundancies, gaps and workarounds in business processes. By focusing on the business processes, systems that better meet customers' needs and that improve organizational performance can be designed.''
Recognized by U.S. News and World Report and Computerworld as one of the top programs in the country, the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management (CSOM) relies heavily on COOL:Biz as a fundamental part of their core curriculum. Developed by Robert J. Kauffman, associate professor of information systems, Robert Josefek, doctoral fellow in business process engineering and 1997-1998 CSOM Teacher of the Year, Alan Fine, the curriculum uses COOL:Biz to teach students concepts and methods for determining business process design, user requirements and systems analysis. In addition, corporate sponsor 3M provides real business problems for the students in the classroom to solve and utilizes the pool of graduates as a recruiting source for highly skilled professionals entering the job market.
''In the past, traditional software engineering tools did not address the world of objects very well,'' said Robert J. Kauffman, associate professor of information systems, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. ''However, COOL:Biz is unique. It incorporates traditional modeling approaches, object-oriented modeling and is UML compliant. We are so pleased with the success our undergraduate students are having with COOL:Biz, that we are already planning to roll it out to the MBA courses.''
Anna Clepper, vice president of marketing, Applications Development Division said: ''Sterling Software is committed to providing the most advanced, comprehensive environment in the industry for enterprise component and application development. By teaching these methods and tools at the university level, graduates are entering the workforce with a more specialized set of skills, decreasing training time and increasing the overall quality and speed of the work they produce.''
About COOL Products
Sterling Software's COOL products provide an integrated environment for delivering and maintaining enterprise-scale applications. The tools support component-based development as well as more classical development approaches enabling hybrid development that combines both speed and quality. COOL:Biz is a modeling environment that helps organizations visualize, understand and communicate complex business processes and workflows. COOL:Spex(TM) is a component modeling tool focusing on interface-based design for component specifications and architecture design. COOL:Jex(TM) is a visual modeling environment for implementing components using object technology. COOL:Gen(TM) is a model-based application development environment, leveraging components to build multi-tier client/server and Web applications.
About Sterling Software
Sterling Software is a leading provider of software and services for the applications management, systems management and federal systems markets. Sterling Software, with its headquarters in Dallas, has a worldwide installed base of more than 20,000 customer sites with over 3,200 employees and 85 offices worldwide. For more information on Sterling Software, visit the company's Web site at sterling.com.
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