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You are here: Home / CIO Blog / CIO Update for the Week of Jan 25

CIO Update for the Week of Jan 25

The spring semester is underway. For the week of January 25, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:  

News

New

  • IT Governance Updates

    • The Finance Modernization Executive Sponsors meet at 2:00 p.m. on Monday

     

  • Vendor Updates

    • The new ELA with VMware has been signed; all members with VMware are now covered under a new agreement and future purchases can be made under this agreement
    • 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; Hootsuite and Sprout Social are hosting demos for new users – contact Lisa Martinez in the System Offices for more information
      • Hootsuite: January 26, 10:00 a.m
      • Sprout Social: January 27, 2:00 p.m.

     

     

System-Wide Contracting News

In Process

  • A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:

    • Microsoft
    • Duo
    • eSignature tools (since we have reached the end of our DocuSign contract life)

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)
    • 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)
    • 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

  • Dallas (January 29)

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