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CIO Update for the Week of Dec 14

This will be the last CIO email for 2020. I hope that each of you has a wonderful and safe holiday season with your friends and families. For the weeks of December 14 and 21, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:  

News

New

  • IT Governance Updates

    • The EIRA Council meets at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday
    • The TTVN Governance Board meets at 1:30 p.m. on Friday

     

  • Vendor Updates

    • The mobile application development RFP team has completed their work and selected two vendors. Ex Libris (CampusM product) joins Modo Labs as opt-in choices for these services. While the Ex Libris contract has not yet been executed, members can begin discussions with them
      • An introductory PDF on CampusM has been sent and the account representative is Jeff Abbott, Account Manager, Mobile Solutions (Jeff’s email is available at the Contracts site)
      • Modo Lab’s information is available at the Contracts site
    • Hootsuite, Sprout Social and Campus Sonar are available to serve The Texas A&M University System and members in social media areas such as management, listening and reporting. A quick reference document about the vendors and their services has been emailed. Hootsuite and Sprout Social are hosting demos for new users in January
      • Hootsuite Demo: January 26 | 10 a.m. CT
      • Sprout Social Demo: January 27 |  2 p.m. CT

     

     

System-Wide Contracting News

In Process

  • A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:

    • Several under consideration

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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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

  • Dalllas (December 17)
  • Colorado (December 18)