Establishment of IBM CoE:

IBM Software Center of Excellence (at TIFAC-CORE in Network Engineering) in Kalasalingam University was inaugurated by Mr. Himanshu Goyal, Country Manager, IBM Academic Initiative on August 27, 2009 in the presence of Shri. T. Kalasalingam, Chairman, Kalasalingam and Anandam Ammal Charities and Dr. C. Thangaraj, Vice Chancellor, Kalasalingam University.

Senior Management Testimonial on the affiliation

“IBM Software Center of Excellence has provided an environment where students have the opportunity to learn the software tools and develop applications.  Companies prefer recruiting students who used IBM software tools and are certified by IBM. Students have the benefit of getting certified on any of the IBM software tools in our campus that is located in a rural area”

     -Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, Vice Chancellor, Kalasalingam University.

   - DB2 Fundamentals

   - RAD

   - RFT

   - TDS

   - Lotus

IBM SCoE Lab Infrastructure:

   - IBM ThinkCentre PCs- 30 Nos.

Software Installed: 

   - DB2 v9.5

   - RAD v7.5

   - RFT v8.0

   - TDS v6.2

Students Certified Synopsis.

Number of workshops conducted:

   - IBM DB2: 4

   - IBM RAD: 2

   - IBM RFT: 1

   - IBM TDS: 1

Total Numbers of Students Certified:

   - IBM DB2:140

   - IBM RAD: 80

   - IBM RFT: 78

TGMC 2011 SRS Last Date of Submission - 31st January, 2012 " and "Last date of TGMC Project Submission - 15^th February, 2012

IBM Lotus certification date will be announced shortly for the students who completed the IBM Lotus workshop last month.

IBM DB2 and RAD workshops in progress.

I got an opportunity to learn and get certified in IBM RFT in campus because of our IBM SCoE  

- Tephilla Prince 

Participation in TGMC-2010 help me in systematic software design and implementation

- Arunab Dey