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Teaching students how to accelerate digital transformation
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries
- Education
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Process Control & Optimization
- Predictive Quality Analytics
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
The Challenge
The digitalization of everyday life is becoming increasingly prevalent, with big data, cloud, mobile access, social and security issues becoming more intertwined and having a significant impact on business and society. This has forced companies to drastically reconsider and transform their processes. The University of Applied Sciences, Saarland (htw saar) recognized the need to prepare their students for this digital era. They wanted to provide their students with a comprehensive overview of current processes within companies and teach them how to best transform these for the digital era. They also wanted to provide real-life problems that students will encounter in their professional career, that students learn to solve using market-leading software.
About The Customer
htw saar (University of Applied Sciences, Saarland) is a research-based and application-oriented university in Germany. Students have been able to enroll in computer science since 1984, while the first bachelor’s program, computer science and communication, was introduced in 2001. The university offers around 45 different bachelor’s and master’s programs. The university currently has approximately 130 active professors. In particular, Professor Dr. André Miede uses the package in the “Business Computing” module for students in the master’s programs for applied informatics and computer science and communication. The goal of the module is to teach students how to design, analyze and optimize business processes. Students also learn about the correlation between organizational structures of a company and the relevant IT infrastructure in the enterprise architecture context.
The Solution
Software AG offered an educational solution tailored to meet the university’s wish for an encompassing Business Process Management (BPM) lecture package, the ARIS Education Package (AEP). The AEP provides key ARIS products to design, analyze, simulate and optimize business processes. Depending on the objective and the focus of the curriculum and courses, the students are able to practice on information modeling, business process modeling and process optimization in a preconfigured scenario. In the lectures, they work with the processes of the United Motor Group, a fictional global car manufacturer. This comprehensive scenario is used to teach the different aspects of business process analysis and transformation. The packages are divided into exercise blocks of approximately 90 minutes. Not only can ARIS be installed in university computer labs, but students can also download the software from the ARIS Community onto their personal computers.
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