UNIVERSITY RELATIONS PROGRAM
To ensure the success of young business and IT professionals, close collaboration between the private sector and academia is essential. Market-oriented education gives graduates entering the job market an excellent head start and offers an ideal foundation for academic research projects. Software AG provides market-leading software for business processes, integration, intelligent business operations and transactions.
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FREE EDUCATION PACKAGES
Free software is at the core of our University Relations Program. But education means more. That’s why we bundled free software with e-learning, video tutorials and other training material to create self-explanatory and easy-to-use packages. These packages include Software AG´s market-leading software products such like ARIS, Apama, Terracotta, webMethods, and more. With the help of the Education Packages, students can work with real business scenarios and get an excellent head start for their future careers.
STREAMING ANALYTICS EDUCATION PACKAGE APAMA | MASHZONE NEXTGEN Learn more
OVERVIEW
The free of charge Streaming Analytics Education Package (SAEP) is designed to be a full-term independent study project, which provides students with real life stock market data requiring them to handle and analyse real world event streams. The SAEP contains Software AG´s product platform for Intelligent Business Operations (IBO) enabling informed decisions to be made at speed and scale by integrating real-time analytics and decisioning into transaction executing systems.
TRAINING MATERIAL
The University Relations Team offers free training material, along with a complete scenario to follow, and other valuable resources.
DURATION
The first step of the SAEP is the set-up of the software and getting familiar with the scenario. This step takes about 4 hours. The completion of the required tasks is the second step. To perform the tasks in different system environments, Software AG offers the SAEP in to various versions:
All required software is either pre-installed or pre-configured. If the user does need to manually install the program, this process will be explained in detail and can be performed by any user with administrator rights.
The University Relations Team offers a variety of opportunities to review and discuss issues if needed, such as a forum, a blog, documentation and a FAQ page. However, the University Relations Team does not provide personal support for this free-of-charge offering.
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INTEGRATION EDUCATION PACKAGE WEBMETHODS Learn more
OVERVIEW
The free of charge Integration Education Package (IEP) is designed to be a full-term independent study project, enabling students to integrate provided applications and freely available web services in an SOA. The result is a cutting-edge and process-driven campus management system for a virtual customer—the “University of Almamater.” The package includes interviews with the university’s staff and students, which allow the project participants to analyze requirements while at the same time, identify their tasks.
TRAINING MATERIAL
The University Relations Team offers free training material, along with a complete scenario to follow, and other valuable resources.
SELF-EXPLANATORY ENVIRONMENT
All required software is either pre-installed or pre-configured. If the user does need to manually install the program, this process will be explained in detail and can be performed by any user with administrator rights.
DURATION
The Integration Education Package is shaped to fit the practical part of a lecture and takes approximately 12 weeks when the user spends 90 minutes per week working on the package.
SUPPORT
The University Relations Team offers a variety of opportunities to review and discuss issues if needed, such as a forum, a blog, documentation and a FAQ page. However, the University Relations Team does not provide personal support for this free-of-charge offering.
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ARIS EDUCATION PACKAGE ARIS Learn more
OVERVIEW
The free of charge ARIS Education Package (AEP) is designed to provide the easiest way to make ARIS available for education purposes of leading universities and business schools. AEP was developed to be used as a supplement to business process management lectures. The packages are divided into exercise blocks of approximately 90 minutes each.
TRAINING MATERIAL
The University Relations Team offers free training material, along with a complete scenario to follow, and other valuable resources.
SELF-EXPLANATORY ENVIRONMENT
All required software can be downloaded via a FTP link and the user will get detailed installation information about the whole installation procedure.
DURATION
ARIS Education Package is shaped to fit the practical part of a lecture and takes approximately 12 weeks when the user spends 90 minutes per week working on the package.
The University Relations Team offers a variety of opportunities to review and discuss issues if needed, such as a forum, a blog, documentation and a FAQ page. However, the University Relations Team does not provide personal support for this free-of-charge offering.
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MOBILE EDUCATION PACKAGE WEBMETHODS Learn more
OVERVIEW
The free of charge Mobile Education Package (MEP) is a free, self-explanatory case study that teaches its users how to efficiently create and market a mobile app using Software AG products. The Mobile Education Package is designed to be used by individuals. Using parts of Software AG’s webMethods Mobile Suite, students are enabled to code mobile apps once and deploy them automatically for several mobile platforms. In Software AG´s Mobile Education Package, they will deploy the app for Android®.
TRAINING MATERIAL
The University Relations Team offers free training material, along with a complete scenario to follow, and other valuable resources.
SELF-EXPLANATORY ENVIRONMENT
All required software is either pre-installed or pre-configured. If the user does need to manually install the program, this process will be explained in detail and can be performed by any user with administrator rights.
The Mobile Education Package takes approximately 12 weeks, provided the user spends 90 minutes per week working on the package.
SUPPORT
The University Relations Team offers a variety of opportunities to review and discuss issues if needed, such as a forum, a blog, documentation and a FAQ page. However, the University Relations Team does not provide personal support for this free-of-charge offering.
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Order Form for Individual Licenses
On request, faculty members are able to request additional software products for education and research by submitting the order form for individual licenses.
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GET CERTIFIED
TO KICK-START YOUR FUTURE CAREER
Validate your skills after successful participation in an University Relations Education Package. Our certifications are globally recognized and demonstrate that you have honed your skills through rigorous study and hands-on experience in your chosen field.
Key benefits of becoming certified are:
- Recognition of your knowledge and proficiency
- Validation of expertise and skills upon successful completion of the given training
- Excellent head start towards a future career
ARIS Certificate
Get proof of your ARIS & Business Process Management (BPM) skillset by earning your ARIS Certificate!
Getting an ARIS Certificate is really simple:
1. Click the link below to visit our certification page
2. If you´d like to prep, check out the tutorials
Take a second to look at our ARIS tutotial if you want to quickly refresh your memory before taking the exam.
3. Once you´re ready, start the exam
You will need to anwer all questions correctly to receive our certification via e-mail, but don´t worry, if you don´t pass the first time, just try again!
Don´t forget to include your new skills on your social networks (e.g LinkedIn, XING, etc.). We recommend using the keywords "Business Process Management" and "ARIS".
Education Package Certificate
Get proof of your skillset from the provided Education Packages by earning your personal Certificate.
Getting an Certificate for Streaming Analytics Education Package (SAEP), Integration Education Package (IEP) or Mobile Education Package (MEP) is currently possible via your responsible faculty member. After the successful completion of the project the certificates can be requested from us directly.
Don´t forget to include your new skills on your social networks (e.g LinkedIn, XING, etc.). We recommend using keywords for the topic and the name of the used software.

WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY
Freie Universität Berlin
“Companies need specialists in the fields of streaming and big data analysis. With Software AG ́s Streaming Analytics Education Package, we are using leading-edge software to educate data scientists.”
- Professor Dr. Adrian Paschke | Freie Universität Berlin
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Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University
“We are pleased to be able to work with Software AG. We can say that Software AG’s University Relations Integration Education Package is outstanding in the educational sector.”
- Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Buck-Emden | Professor at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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HTW Saar
“The ARIS Education Package is ideal to teach students how to successfully manage the main pillar of companies, their processes. We are pleased about this close and confident relationship with Software AG.”
- Prof. Dr. André Miede | htw saar
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Berufliche Schule für Wirtschaft Hamburg-Eimsbüttel
"Wir haben in den vergangenen Jahren sehr viele positive Rückmeldungen von Unternehmen und Schülern zum Fach Geschäftsprozessmanagement erhalten. Geschäftsprozess-design- und analyse werden für Kaufleute immer wichtiger. Umso mehr freut es uns, dass die Software AG allen Schulen in Deutschland ARIS kostenfrei zur Verfügung stellt."
- Gunnar Binda | Lehrer für Informatik, Multimedia, und Projektmanagement an der BSW Hamburg-Eimsbüttel
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Universität Leipzig
"Market-oriented education is of pivotal importance, especially in technical degree programs. [...] So I am very grateful for the opportunity to start collaborating with a global corporation and a new and strong partner like Software AG."
- Prof. Dr. Franz Häuser | President of University of Leipzig
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