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You are here: Home / CIO Blog / CIO Update for the Week of Jun 15

CIO Update for the Week of Jun 15

For the week of June 15, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:  

News

New

  • It is with great sadness that I notify this community of the unexpected passing of Steve Erwin with the Columbia Advisory Group. Steve passed away suddenly on Sunday morning, June 14. Many of you know Steve and/or worked with Steve. Steve was a wonderful person and resource for The Texas A&M University System. He was trustworthy, professional and insightful. His family, the CAG staff, and the members of The Texas A&M University System will acutely miss him and his contributions.

  • IT Governance Meetings:

    • CATIE meets at noon on Tuesday
    • The Academic Technology Council met June 12 and voted to approve Interfolio as the sole System-wide solution for recruitment, hiring, tenure tracking, and career and compensation; this opt-in recommendation will be voted on by the Executive IT Council after the 1:30 p.m meeting on Tuesday

     

System-Wide Contracting News

New

  • The RELLIS Data Center ground lease was signed June 1; RCDRC has one year to finalize financing for the construction of the data center

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 is a self-service web database program that allows faculty (or staff) to use the Internet to maintain their teaching, research, and service records. TAMU and PVAMU already have member agreements with Interfolio.; the recommendation to approved this opt-in system-wide contract goes to the Executive IT Council this week
    • 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 (June 19)

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