Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (WeSchool) and the SAS Institute (India) have signed an MoU announcing strategic knowledge partnership to collaborate and provide training for students and faculty in the area of business analytics.
The joint initiative will facilitate students to formalise and solve problems that business managers and economists face in their working lives. The aim is to bridge the skill gap and produce industry ready professional with industry collaboration and guidance.
WeSchool had started a course on analytics in the academic year 2012-13.
“With this industry collaboration, we plan to take our initiative forward and bring in industry expertise. We intend to offer joint-programmes that enable young professionals build expertise to compete at the global level,” said Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, WeSchool.
“The partnership with SAS for offering Business Analytics programmes will address several challenges faced by the industry and create a rich talent pool. This will also enrich the existing verticals we have such as programmes in retail, healthcare, banking, rural and others.”
“We aim at reducing on the job training by creating industry oriented programmes in collaboration with institutes like WeSchool. This would enable the industry to hire talent that can face the real-time challenges from the beginning, ” said Sudipta Sen, Regional Director, South-East Asia and Vice-Chairman, Member of Board, SAS Institute (India).
To celebrate the collaboration, WeSchool, along with SAS India, conducted a round-table conclave titled WAC2015 to bring together the practitioners and users of business analytics on a single platform.