News
New
The monthly CIO Chat is set for 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3rd.
The ServiceNow Steering Committee meets on Wednesday.
The Digital COE Committee meets on Thursday.
The first draft of the Security Operations Center MOU will be discussed on Tuesday.
The CIOs will vote on the proposed overhaul of TTVN governance on Tuesday.
Atomic Learning has set up 30 free trial accounts for TAMUS members to review their solutions. If you are interested in a couple of free accounts, please contact me directly.
This is a reminder to complete the Institution of Higher Education Accessibility Survey that was sent out on 4/15 by Friday, May 6th. If you have already completed the survey, please disregard this message. Use the following link to access the survey.
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
New
Project Helios
- Our final business process design workshop finished last week with Absence Management. SMEs from each member participated. Workbooks documenting the process flows, steps and outputs, roles, notifications, regulatory and legal requirements, reports and open items are being developed for each process group.
- The “Payroll Accounting Link” team completed an initial design document and is focused on mapping payroll costing information from Workday to FAMIS.
- The integrations team continued to work on integration design documents.
- The data conversion team kicked off the data cleansing process with the Project Coordinators. Bi-weekly meetings begin in May.
SCIO Trips/Visits
- TTI (May 2nd)