Industry Partnerships
Connections with the World of Business
SIS continues to expand and deepen its ties with industries in ways that provide an exceptional array of learning experience, internship projects and employment opportunities for our students.
Here are examples of our working relationships with companies from both private sector and public sector organisations:
- SIS current and former Board of Advisors
- Relationships with IT, Infocomm and Digital Media Solutions & Service Providers
- Special Initiatives with End User Business Organisations
- Companies & Organisations that have funded our Research Projects
- Companies that have employed BSc (ISM) students as interns
- Companies that have employed BSc (ISM) graduates
- Company Sponsors for our BSc (ISM) Scholarships & Awards
- Business-IT Talks & Visitors
- MITB Industry Partners
- Company Sponsors for our MITB (Financial Services) Capstone Projects
- Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC) Industry Partners
IT, Infocomm and Digital Media Solutions and Service Providers
Here are some of the relationships we have with different IT, Infocomm and Digital Media Solutions & Service Providers:
| Company | Relationship | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Altova | Academic partner (2008) | Usage of XMLSpy for 1 semester in undergraduate course |
| Avocent | University wide Avocent-SMU MOU (Jan 2009 - present) |
Opportunities to work with Avocent on Green IT and IT Operations Projects Sponsors The Avocent SIS IS Application Project Outstanding Student Award |
| Calypso | Academic Partner (2010 - present) |
Use Calypso trading platform for undergraduate and graduate financial markets technology courses |
| Catena Technologies | Academic Partner (2010 - present) |
Provides technology case studies and analysis on the financial services industry. Helps students learn about the financial markets and deliver innovative projects to Asian financial institutions |
| EMC Corp | EMC Academic Alliance partner (2008 - present) |
Running their Information Storage & Management (ISM) course as enrichment course |
| FACT Software International Pte Ltd | Establishment of the FACT Software International Research Gift for SMU SIS (2009) |
Opportunities for students to integrate their business modelling with an ERP application to perform dynamic analysis of live data to support real-time decision making |
| IBM | IBM's SSME Global Initiative
(Nov 2007 - present) Provided free academic license for their Websphere tool IBM Business Consulting Services Solution Center (Oct 2003 - Aug 2005) |
SIS promotes Service Science, Management & Engineering (SSME) programme. One of SIS second major tracks is Service Systems & Solutions Usage of Websphere in undergraduate course Provide SMU students with insights on how industry specific business processes and enabling software applications come together. Give students the opportunity to learn how to develop solution proof-of-concepts and have access to real-world case studies |
| Infosys Technologies Ltd | Joint Education & Research Agreement (2011-2014) Cooperation Agreement (2007 - 2009) Provided academic license (2005 - present) |
Joint education and research projects
Campus Connect & Collaborative Courseware Development Usage of InFlux Methodology and toolset for undergraduate courses |
| JetBrains | Provided academic license (2005 - present) |
Usage of "IntelliJ IDEA" for undergraduate course |
| Juniper Networks | Academic Sponsor (2011) |
Donated 2 gigabit switches for the Teaching Lab, that is used by several undergraduate SIS courses |
| Mercury (now HP-Mercury) | Special MOU partner (2006 - 2007) |
Usage of their LoadRunner tool for AA labs |
| Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscriber / DreamSpark Program (2008 - present) |
Lots of tools being used in various courses: Visio, Project, Visual Studio.NET, Sharepoint Server, etc |
| Novell | Novell Silver partner (2007 - 2009) |
Ran their Novell Certified Linux Professional (NCLP) courses as enrichment courses |
| Oracle Corporation | Oracle Academy partner (2007 - present) |
Usage of Oracle E-Business suite in undergraduate courses which gives students the opportunity to learn about complex enterprise business applications and processes Usage of Oracle's Retail Business Intelligence Accelerator Data Model as part of our SIS elective course on Data Warehousing & Business Analytics |
| ReadySpace (SG) Pte Ltd | Provide hosting services and support in events and courses Visit website (2010-present) |
In code::Xtremeapps:: 2010 Cloud services & support provided for enrichment course during Summer Usage of Cloud Services & Support in undergraduate course |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Academy partner (upcoming) | Usage of their course materials for teaching enrichment courses |
| SAP |
SAP University Alliance partner
(June 2009 - present) |
Usage of the newest generation of SAP software based on Service Oriented Architecture & NetWeaver platform in our undergraduate courses |
| SAS Institute Pte Ltd | Major initiatives to develop business intelligence capabilities, Establishment of the SMU-SAS Advanced Analytics Lab (SAAL)
(Mar 2011 - present) SMU-SAS Enterprise Intelligence Lab (SEIL) (Mar 2008 - 2011) |
Provide our students access to the entire SAS suite of enterprise Business Intelligence & Analytics solutions Partnership with Business Intelligence & Analytics curriculum, one of SIS second major tracks Provide SEIL related projects, research and workshops with our Masters and PhD students Sponsors the SAS Best Project Award in Data Warehouse & Business Analytics, the SAS Institute BSc Scholarship and the SAS Institute Masters of IT in Business Scholarship |
| Sun Microsystems | Bank-on-Sun Center @ Sun
(June 2009 - 2010) Sun Academic Alliance partner (2009 - present) |
Provide undergraduate students with around-the-clock access to the Bank-on-Sun demonstration Center. Give our students opportunities to explore on how industry specific business processes and enabling software & hardware infrastructure come together. Ran their Sun courses (SL110, SL275, SL314, SL425) as enrichment courses |
| Tata Consultancy Services | TCS-SMU iCity Lab | Collaboration Agreement and TCS' S$6 million investment lays foundation for research and development of cloud-based IT solutions for intelligent cities in Asia and Worldwide - see press release |
| Tibco Software Inc. | Tibco University Relations Program (2005 - present) |
Used tools for Enterprise Integration course |
| Visual Paradigm | Provided free academic license to use their tool (2004 - present) |
Provides Singapore Management University with VP-UML, SDE-VS, SDE-EC, SDE-NB, SDE-IJ, BPVA, AG for use in educational purposes, offered by the VP Academic Partner Program |
Special Initiatives with End User Business Organisations
Here are some of the ongoing and prior special initiatives we have with End User Business Organisations in the private sector as well as the public sector:
| Company | Relationship | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandra Health | Establishment of the Alexandra Health T-Lab@SMU (June 2010 - present) |
Provide students and faculty with opportunities to work on health-care specific service transformation and service improvement projects, working hand-in-hand with Alexandra Health professionals
Award sponsorships for excellent projects and outstanding students
T (in T-Lab) is
|
| Land Transport Authority (LTA), Singapore | Inclusion of SMU SIS into the Singapore Urban Transport Solution (STARS) (Aug 2009 - present) |
Opportunities for student participation in SIS Research Projects involving LTA data and challengers. |
| Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of Singapore | Collaboration between MHA and SMU on cyber security education and research in Singapore (2011 - present) |
Collaboration between MHA and SMU on education, research and development and consultancy projects in the areas of cyber security. |
| NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) Technologies | Partnership with MITB (Financial Services) (2011 - present) |
Creating innovative educational labs for hands-on learning using NYSE Technologies' products and services. Enriching the educational experience with real-world technology and trading scenarios |
| Standard Chartered Bank | Establishment of the Standard Chartered iLab@SMU (March 2006 - present) |
Provide students with opportunities to work on innovative banking specific service innovation projects, working hand-in-hand with Standard Chartered professionals. Sponsorships of students final year projects - IS Application Projects. Some of these projects are being implemented in multiple countries to thousands of people. These projects were originally created, demonstrated and proven by SIS students. Sponsors the SMU Innovative Project Award and the SMU Young Stars Award. |
| SimpliFlying | Provide students and faculty with opportunities to work on aviation-technology specific service transformation and service improvement projects, focused on deriving business value from real-time travel data being shared publicly online. Visit website (Aug 2010 - present) |
Hire interns from SIS and SMU every year to give them work on innovative airline-technology specific service innovation projects, working hand-in-hand with SimpliFlying consultants. Sponsorships of students final year projects - IS Application Projects. |
Company Sponsors for our MITB (Financial Services) Capstone Projects
- Banking Computer Services Pte Ltd
- Citibank
- Commerzbank
- DBS
- GE Money
- Julius Baer
- Merrill Lynch Global Services Pte Ltd
- OCBC
- SAS Institute Pte Ltd
- Singapore Exchange Ltd
- Standard Chartered Bank
- United Overseas Bank
Learn about MITB Capstone Project
SIS is SAP Alliance Partner
Last updated on 13 October, 2011 by School of Information Systems.