CIO Update for the Week of Aug 9

For the week of August 9, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:

News

New

• IT Governance Updates

  • The Workday HCM Advisory Council meets Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.
  • Texas A&M’s ITAC meets Thursday at 8:30 a.m.
  • The TAMUS Oracle Cloud Committee meets Friday at 10:00 a.m.

   

   

   

Repeats

• Vendor Updates

  • The A&M System has signed a system-wide agreement with Palo Alto; the agreement will be available sometime this week

   

System-Wide Contracting News

In Process

• Posted RFPs:

  • Annual Financial Reporting Solution (opens in a separate window)
  • Virtual Conference Software Solution (opens in a separate window)
  • Electronic Signature Solution (opens in a separate window)

   

• A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:

  • DocuSign (options for an electronic sgnature tool(s) will come out of the electronic signature solution RFP)
  • Oracle perpetual campus license

   

Repeats

• Current A&M System-wide Contracts:

  • 3 Play Media provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
  • Acadeum provides access to an online education marketplace that offers courses across a network of colleges and universities to help students stay on track and graduate faster (discretionary)
  • Access Data provides preservation hold software (assessed)
  • AdmitHub fosters student success with artificial intelligence-powered mobile messaging and chatbots (discretionary)
  • Adobe provides full Creative Cloud suite and Adobe Pro software tools (discretionary)
  • AT&T provides network as a service and related services (discretionary)
  • Automatic Sync provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
  • Banner COE (CAG) provides Banner-related services (discretionary)
  • Blackboard provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
  • Campus Sonar provides specialized social listening services for higher education (discretionary)
  • campusM (Ex Libris) supports mobile application development (discretionary)
  • Canvas (Instructure) provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
  • Cisco Strategic Relationship supports the AT&T NaaS RELLIS services and includes discounted Cisco products and services (discretionary)
  • Class Climate (Scantron) allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
  • D2L provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
  • Diligent provides board portal functionality (discretionary)
  • DocuSign provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (assessed)
  • Duo (Cisco) provides two-factor authentication (assessed)
  • Examity provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary contract)
  • eXplorance allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
  • Fetii provides contactless scanning technology through QR codes (discretionary)
  • GoReact provides a platform for feedback, grading and critiquing of video assignments (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)
  • Interfolio provides academic faculty management software (discretionary)
  • IOTA Solutions allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
  • Laserfiche provides document digitization and automated records processing, storage retrieval, security and archiving (discretionary)
  • LinkedIn Learning provides video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative and business skills (discretionary)
  • Microsoft provides business software and services (assessed)
  • Modo Labs supports mobile application development (discretionary)
  • Navex provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary)
  • Oracle provides a shared hardware/software platform to host Oracle-based applications (discretionary)
  • PlatformQ enables universities to connect with students at every stage of the recruitment process (discretionary)
  • Pluralsight offers a variety of video-based training for software developers, IT administrators and creative professionals (discretionary)
  • Portfolium (Instructure) 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)
  • Proctorio provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary)
  • ProctorU provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary)
  • Qualtrics provides an online survey tool that supports building and distributing surveys and analyzing the responses (discretionary)
  • Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links, and accessibility (assessed)
  • Smart Net (Cisco) provides Cisco equipment maintenance (discretionary)
  • SmartEvals (Gap Technologies) allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
  • Sprout Social provides a social media management platform (discretionary)
  • Syncplicity provides secure file storage and sharing (assessed)
  • TeamDynamix provides cloud-based IT service and project management software (discretionary)
  • Verbit provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
  • WebEx (Cisco) provides online collaboration and meeting software (discretionary)

   

SCIO Trips/Visits

• No trips scheduled this week