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You are here: Home / CIO Blog / CIO Update for the Week of Jan 13

CIO Update for the Week of Jan 13

Welcome to the first week of the spring semester. The students are back and the semester begins. Also, the college football season culminates in tonight’s championship game. For the week of January 13, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:

News

New

  • There is an eSport meeting with representatives of TAMU and the System Offices at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday

  • The LEARN Executive Committee meets at 1:00 p.m. Thursday at TTI Headquarters

  • Governance updates

    • The Workday HCM Advisory Council meets at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday
    • The Maestro Steering Committee meets at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday

     

In Process

  • RELLIS contracts update

    • Contract negotiations continue with PMG (RELLIS data center) and AT&T/ Cisco (RELLIS NaaS)

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

  • TAMU (Jan 15)
  • RELLIS (Jan 16)

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