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You are here: Home / CIO Blog / CIO Update for the Week of Dec 16

CIO Update for the Week of Dec 16

It is the last CIO Update for 2019. Have a wonderful holiday season with your friends and family. For the week of December 16, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:

News

New

  • Aram Kaplan of Zoom passed along one of their new offerings; please contact him if you are interested

  • David McLaughlin of Columbia Advisory Group passed along this E&I article on their interim and virtual CIO and IT leadership services

In Process

  • The committee evaluating the NaaS RFPs will meet December 19 to determine the finalist

  • Netsync and Sirius were awarded Cisco Smart Net contracts

    • The contracts are in the process of being finalized and signed with each VAR
    • Each member needs to select their Smart Net provider by December 9 and produce a right-sized coverage list of to be covered items with the associated coverage level as soon as possible
    • The A&M System is on Winter Break starting December 23, which doesn’t give us many working days

System-Wide Contracting News

In Process

  • A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development

    • Captioning Services will provide members with closed caption, transcription, and subtitling solutions to make video accessible, searchable, SEO-friendly and more engaging
    • Interfolio is a self-service web database program that allows faculty (or staff) to use the Internet to maintain their teaching, research, and service records; the System Offices received a proposal for a system-wide agreement and is working with the System Procurement Office to develop a competitive bid for this product
    • Qualtrics provides feedback from customers, employees and students. The System Offices is in conversations to obtain a proposal for a system-wide agreement

Repeats

  • Current A&M System-wide Contracts

    • Access Data provides members with preservation hold software (in annual assessment)
    • Adobe provides members full Creative Cloud suite and Adobe Pro software tools (discretionary)
    • Banner COE provides members with Banner-related services (discretionary)
    • Blackboard provides a cloud-based learning management system option to members (discretionary)
    • Canvas provides a cloud-based learning management system option to members (discretionary)
    • Class Climate (Scantron) provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
    • D2L provides a cloud-based learning management system option to members (discretionary)
    • Diligent provides board portal functionality for all members (discretionary)
    • DocuSign provides members with electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
    • Duo provides two-factor authentication for all members (discretionary)
    • Examity provides members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary contract)
    • eXplorance provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
    • GovQA (WebQA) is the TAMUS approved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution for all members (in annual assessment)
    • Guardian I-9 (LawLogix) provides members with 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 members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
    • Laserfiche provides members with the digitization of documents, the automation of records processing, storage retrieval, security and archiving (discretionary)
    • Modo Labs provides mobile application development support (discretionary)
    • Navex provides members with a ethics and compliance management (discretionary)
    • Oracle provides members with 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 members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary)
    • Proofpoint email filtering and data loss prevention tools (in annual assessment)
    • Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links and accessibility for 54 cents per web page per year (discretionary)
    • Smart Net (Cisco) offers members equipment maintenance (discretionary)
    • SmartEvals (Gap Technologies) provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
    • Syncplicity licensing is available for all members (in annual assessment)
    • WebEx online collaboration and meeting software is available to all members at the low cost of $1.44 per month per license (discretionary)
    • Zoom online collaboration and meeting software provides members with an alternative to WebEx, GoToMeeting and Adobe Connect

     

SCIO Trips/Visits

  • No trips scheduled this week

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