Advanced Postgraduate Program in Software Technologies (APGP-ST)

"In economic recession, knowledge does not exhaust, jobs may be for a while. In the job market too, finally knowledge resources always triumph."

The modern dynamic and competitive business environment has raised the necessity for improved technological support for achieving the business goals. To keep pace with the dynamic nature of software and technologies; Enterprise Applications and Analytics, Application Integration Issues, Business Dynamics and Technology usage platforms have undergone dramatic changes. Integrated applications, the mainstay of large enterprises, are now a pervasive phenomenon. From being mere text and numeric data store, databases have evolved with capabilities of handling rich data and varied content. A paradigm shift to rich content and open platform based integrated / shareable applications and Multi-Core Architecture have given rise to new technologies such as Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Multi-Core Parallel Programming, Enterprise Application Integration, Data Warehousing, Advanced Data Mining, Extended Enterprise Application and Information Security that challenge IT professionals to build applications to leverage business.


FOCUS AREAS
- Database Technologies
- BPM and SOA
- Data Warehousing and Data Mining
- Grid Computing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Engineering
- Parallel Processing
- Applications Development

Future

Department looks forward to enhance capabilities in various areas of enterprise. A few topics on our agenda have been listed below:

- Curriculum/Program:
- Launching Advanced Computing Technologies (ACT) Program
- New Academic Collaborations with more foreign universities
- New industry collaborations
- Organizing Conferences and Workshops international/national level
- Collaborative Research:
- Focusing faculty level collaborative Research with NDSU
- Focusing faculty level Collaborative Research with CSU
- Multi-Core Research at Intel@ Lab
- Multi-Core Research with CRL, India
- EAI, BPM and SOA research at TIBCO Lab

Industry Project/Consulting Work:

- To enhance the existing research information system for Pediatrics department of KEM Hospital Pune

- To include more countries' HDSS data into the existing centralized demographic data

- To build the experty in the area of MC Programming, Database, Agile Programming, Advanced Software Engineering Practices and Project management

- Association with Professional Bodies:

- SPIN (Software and Systems Process Improvement Network

- AIAPR