Actuate Corporation, the BIRT Company has announced the results of their jointly sponsored Faculty Development Program (FDP) on data warehousing and business intelligence (BI). With co-sponsors COMPEGENCE and Infosys E&R, the training program has resulted in increased understanding and enthusiasm from students who are the BI professionals of the future. The program is taking traditional BI education to the next level with workshops for professors and scholars, bringing business intelligence to life through hands-on learning and practice.
 Reporting on the differences made by the FDP program, Professor Sejal Nimbhalkar, of T John Institute of Technology, Bangalore, has initiated a pilot project in teaching BI with Actuate, and students are enthusiastic and satisfied with the tool. Professor Shrikanth Athnikar, KLE DR. M.S., of Sheshagiri College of Engineering and Technology, Belgaum, reports that the College has trained ten of its selected students, and they are planning to incorporate Actuate for reporting projects.
James Conway, Regional Director Actuate, Asia Pacific, said, “The ability to inspire the world’s future business intelligence leaders to garner the appropriate skills and capabilities to manage business analytics starts with enhancing the training they receive at university. The key is to educate students and help them understand that, in today’s global workplace, business users as well as data engineers have much higher expectations of how easily and how fast business analytics technology can deliver insights to drive business improvement.”
