News
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The Administrative Computing Council meets on Tuesday.
The Project Helios Executive Sponsor Committee meets on Tuesday.
Dee Childs, the third finalist for the TAMU CIO, will be on campus Friday. There is an open forum that afternoon for those interested in hearing from her.
System-Wide Contracting News
Repeats
Current System-wide Contracts
- Access Data provides members with preservation hold software. (in annual assessment)
- Banner COE provides members with Banner-related services under a master contract (discretionary)
- Cisco SmartNet (discretionary)
- Diligent provides board portal functionality for all members. (discretionary)
- Duo provides two-factor authentication for all members. (discretionary)
- Hootsuite will enable members to manage social networks, schedule messages and measure social media from a dashboard under a master contract. (discretionary)
- Modo Labs provides mobile application development support for all members. (discretionary)
- Proofpoint email filtering and data loss prevention tools are available for all members. (in annual assessment)
- Security Operations Center (in annual assessment)
- Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links and accessibility. The cost is 54 cents per web page per year. Any member interested in adding this service need to contact me directly. (discretionary)
- StealthWatch provides cyber security monitoring for all members. (in annual assessment)
- Syncplicity licensing is available for all members. (in annual assessment)
- WebEx is available to all members. Faculty/administrators can obtain licenses at the low cost of $1.44/month/license. (discretionary)
- WebQA is the TAMUS approved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution for all members. (in annual assessment)
System-wide Contracts under Development
- Docusign will provide members with electronic signature and related workflow capabilities under a master contract (discretionary contract).
- Examity will provide members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary contract). If you are interested in looking at the proposal, I can forward it to you.
- ProctorU will provide members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary contract). If you are interested in looking at the proposal, I can forward it to you.
- Respondus will provide members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary contract). If you are interested in looking at the proposal, I can forward it to you.
Projects
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Project Helios
- Configuration of our first prototype (Prototype 1) continues.
- Prototype 1 Review sessions are being planned which will allow the Business Process Workshop SMEs to see the Workday solution they designed during the workshops. In preparation for the review sessions, the functional team will be reviewing outstanding parking lot items with the SMEs in July.
- The data conversion team reached the 70% mark of loading data needed for Prototype 1. The functional team continues to work with the data conversion team and members to check and validate our Prototype 1 data.
- The integrations team continued to work on integration design documents.
- Retiring our current HR / Payroll tools:
- The “Payroll Accounting Link” team is prioritizing tasks and working on detailed project plans.
- Analysis of impacts to SSO applications is complete.
- Design of Data Warehouse changes is complete. The team continues to map impacted fields to their Workday counterparts.
SCIO Trips/Visits
- TAMU (June 17th)