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CIO Update for the Week of Jul 6

I hope that each of you have a wonderful and safe 4th of July weekend. For the week of July 6, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:  

News

New

  • COVID-19 Testing

    • Institution and agency COVID-19 testing administrators meet Tuesday at 1:00 p.m.
      • Please see last week’s email for guidelines on identifying a COVID-19 testing administrator
    • CEOs and Presidents receive a COVID-19 testing update Wednesday at 11:00 a.m.

     

  • IT Governance

    • The CIOs meet for their monthly Chat Tuesday at 4:00 p.m.
    • The Maestro Steering Committee meets Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.
    • The TTVN Board meets Friday at 1:30 p.m.

     

  • Cisco and 12th Man Productions announced the movement of video production to IP with the help of Cisco Systems IP Fabric for Media solutions; check out the case study or the podcast for more information

Repeats

  • A&M-Central Texas announced that their CFO, Dr. Carter-Horn, will be returning to PVAMU at the end of June

    Dr. Nigliazzo has asked Todd Lutz to move from the CIO position to fill in as the interim CFO (approximately one year); during this time, Gail Wallin, the Enterprise Apps director, has been asked to serve as the A&M-Central Texas interim CIO; she will attend most of the CIO Council and monthly chat meetings to represent A&M-Central Texas

    Congratulations to both Todd and Gail!

System-Wide Contracting News

In Process

  • A new RFP for mobile application development has been posted

  • 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; the evaluation committee has selected three firms;  contracting with these three firms will begin this week
    • Interfolio has been approved by the A&M System IT governance groups as the sole system-wide solution for recruitment, hiring, tenure tracking and career and compensation; TAMU and PVAMU already have member agreements with Interfolio; this opt-in system-wide contract now enters the contract negotiation and implementation planning phase
    • Qualtrics is a tool that provides feedback from customers, employees, and students; the System Offices has agreed to a system-wide agreement starting September 1; details to come
    • RELLIS NaaS contract negotiations continue with AT&T

     

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

  • Dallas (July 10)