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

CIO Update for the Week of June 13

For the week of June 13, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on.

News

New

  • IT Governance

    • The TTDN Council meets Tuesday at 1:30 p.m.
    • The LEARN Board meets Wednesday and Thursday

     

  • 2022 Tech Summit

    • The Call for Presentations is open!; please submit your proposal by June 24
    • Early Bird registration is open until July 31

Repeats

  • The second draft of System Regulation 29.01.03 has been sent; please review and provide Nick McLarty with questions and comments

  • I sent a flyer introducing the new RELLIS Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies Academy Cyber Analyst Certificate Program; please review this flyer and distribute it to those who might be interested in this program

  • I sent a flyer introducing Capsher Technology

    • Capsher Technology was recently awarded one of the contracts from the system-wide Financial Reporting RFP
    • Please review their capabilities and contact them directly if you are interested in using their services

     

System-Wide Contracting News

In Process

  • A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:

    • eSignature (NextGen)
    • Cohesity

     

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)
    • Accelevents supports virtual and hybrid conferences (discretionary)
    • AdmitHub fosters student success with artificial intelligence-powered mobile messaging and chatbots (discretionary)
    • Adobe provides full Creative Cloud suite and Adobe Pro software tools (discretionary)
    • Adobe Sign provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
    • airSlate / SignNow provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
    • AT&T provides network as a service and related services (discretionary)
    • Automatic Sync provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
    • Aventri supports virtual and hybrid conferences (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 (discretionary)
    • Duo (Cisco) provides two-factor authentication (discretionary)
    • Examity provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary)
    • eXplorance allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
    • Exterro unifies e-discovery, privacy and digital forensics activities to help organizations manage and mitigate regulatory, compliance and litigation risks
    • 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)
    • LinkedIn Learning provides video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative and business skills (discretionary)
    • Microsoft provides business software and services (direct bill)
    • 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)
    • Palo Alto provides firewalls and associated security subscription services (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)
    • 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)
    • Sterling provides background check services for employment, employment screening, drug testing, I-9 employment and education verification (discretionary)
    • TeamDynamix provides cloud-based IT service and project management software (discretionary)
    • Verbit provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
    • VMware provides various VMware software, services and training/consulting credits (discretionary)
    • WebEx (Cisco) provides online collaboration and meeting software (discretionary)

     

SCIO Trips/Visits

  • San Antonio (Jun 15-16)

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