Welcome back to the students (as they trickle in this week across the A&M System). For the week of August 10, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
IT Governance:
- The Workday HCM Advisory Council meets Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.
- The TTVN Governance Board meets Friday at 1:30 p.m.
CIOs: Please check your email for two updates:
- Occam’s ETS Platform; contact Bob Surette if you are interested in the product
- Fetii’s back end management system
System-Wide Contracting News
In Process
A new RFP for mobile application development has been posted
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development
- Interfolio has been approved by the A&M System IT governance groups as the sole system-wide solution for recruitment, hiring, tenure tracking and career and compensation; TAMU and PVAMU already have member agreements with Interfolio; this opt-in system-wide contract now enters the contract negotiation and implementation planning phase
- Qualtrics provides feedback from customers, employees, and students; the System Offices has agreed to a system-wide agreement starting September 1; details to come
- RELLIS NaaS contract negotiations continue with AT&T
Repeats
Current A&M System-wide Contracts
- 3 Play Media provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Access Data provides preservation hold software (assessed)
- Adobe provides full Creative Cloud suite and Adobe Pro software tools (discretionary)
- Automatic Sync provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Banner COE provides Banner-related services (discretionary)
- Blackboard provides a cloud-based learning management system option (discretionary)
- Canvas provides a cloud-based learning management system option (discretionary)
- Class Climate (Scantron) provides tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- D2L provides a cloud-based learning management system option (discretionary)
- Diligent provides board portal functionality (discretionary)
- DocuSign provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (assessed)
- Duo provides two-factor authentication (assessed)
- Examity provides on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary contract)
- eXplorance provides tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- GovQA (WebQA) is the TAMUS approved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution (assessed)
- Guardian I-9 (LawLogix) provides electronic I-9 compliance verification (discretionary)
- Hootsuite enables members to manage social networks, schedule messages and measure social media from a dashboard (discretionary)
- IOTA Solutions provides tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Laserfiche provides digitization of documents, the automation of records processing, storage retrieval, security and archiving (discretionary)
- Modo Labs provides mobile application development support (discretionary)
- Navex provides ethics and compliance management (discretionary)
- Oracle provides a shared hardware/software platform to host Oracle-based applications (discretionary)
- Portfolium provides students and recent graduates with the ability to connect with businesses and employers using previous academic work and projects to supplement their communication (discretionary)
- ProctorU provides on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary)
- Proofpoint email filtering and data loss prevention tools (assessed)
- Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links and accessibility for 54 cents per web page per year (assessed)
- Smart Net (Cisco) offers equipment maintenance (discretionary)
- SmartEvals (Gap Technologies) provides tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Syncplicity licensing is available (assessed)
- Verbit provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- WebEx online collaboration and meeting software is available at the low cost of $1.44 per month per license (discretionary)
- Zoom online collaboration and meeting software is an alternative to WebEx, GoToMeeting and Adobe Connect (discretionary)
SCIO Trips/Visits
- No trips scheduled this week