Freshworks is a global leader in customer engagement software. They provide organisations with a diverse suite of SaaS solutions which are ready to go, easy to set up and use, and require minimal customization. Freshworks is currently valued at $1.5 billion in the global market.
The global market for SaaS developers is predicted to touch $94.9 billion by 2022. To make use of this opportunity, skilling of students in SaaS/web technologies is very pertinent since quality developers are very likely to be readily absorbed by the industry, which now faces a tremendous shortage of talent overall. Freshworks, as a leader in the domain, has put together highly practical and relevant courses for students, that will give them strong foundational and applicational skills.
SASTRA-TBl is a theme-based incubator, a registered 'not for profit' society supported by a strong, capable advisory body. Its goal is to help startup entrepreneurs realize their dreams through a range of courses, infrastructure, business advisory, mentoring and financial services. To enhance the educational experience provided to students at the SASTRA Deemed to be University has jointly partnered with Freshworks and SV.CO to bring this Industry-led course to its students.
These courses are integrated into the University curriculum at Sastra University with the teaching-learning platform developed by SV.CO, so that when students graduate, they are skill ready.
Web Technologies for SaaS is the first course put together by Freshworks to skill students with technologies required to develop industry-grade SaaS applications for developing practical, real-world applications.
To skill the students with technologies required to develop industry-grade SaaS applications for realistic scenarios.
Be able to program with the Ruby programming language.
Be able to use object-oriented principles to do domain modelling.
Be able to build web applications using Rails, HTML, and CSS.
Be able to conceive and create SaaS applications following current best practices.
Setup Linux, Github, VSCode, Introduction to Ruby, Object-Oriented Programming, Database and Active Record, Backend Web Development with Rails, HTML and CSS, HTML Forms, User Authentication, Basics of Server Deployment.
Course Coach, Freshworks
Course Faculty Coordinator, Assistant Professor, Department of Information and Communication TechnologySastra University
Course Manager, Industry-Academia Liaison ManagerSV.CO
Student - SaaS 201 (July-Nov 2019)Sastra University
Student - SaaS 201 (July-Nov 2019)Sastra University
CEO, SASTRA-TBI
“The SaaS course designed with the help of industry experts is very relevant for engineering students. Introduction of this course makes our Sastra students ready to face the digital world and contribute to the growing Industry by the skills they gain while in university. We are happy for this collaboration, and appreciate the support from Industry professionals for the course.”
Sastra SaaS 201 (July-Nov 2019)
“The course was great. I loved doing the milestone targets and final project. It made me do something which is interesting and useful. When I launched my first website, the amount of joy I got, cannot be expressed in words.”
Sastra SaaS 201 (July-Nov 2019)
“I developed a complete app for the first time and hosted it on a platform. It was a really good experience.”