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CIO Update for the Week of Nov 14

Last week was a momentous week nationally, across the system, and on the football field. Wow! Let us hope that this week is a little calmer. In looking at the calendar for the week of November 14th, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:

News

New

  • CATIE meets Tuesday.

  • There is a RELLIS meeting on academic technology on Wednesday.

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 (discretionary)
    • Cisco SmartNet (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)
    • Hootsuite enables members to manage social networks, schedule messages and measure social media from a dashboard (discretionary)
    • Modo Labs provides mobile application development support (discretionary)
    • ProctorU provides members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary contract)
    • Proofpoint email filtering and data loss prevention tools (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)
    • 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

    • Comevo will provide members with online orientation software services (discretionary contract)
    • Qualtrics will provide members with software to manage the entire customer experience – from surveys, to insights and to action. A proposal has been distributed for review.

     

Projects

New

  • Workday (Project Helios)

    • Configuration and unit testing of our second prototype (Prototype 2) continued.
    • Prototype 2 Review Sessions will be held from November 16 through January 4 and will allow member SMEs to see how the A&M System’s Workday solution has developed since the Prototype 1 Review Sessions.
    • The integration team continued working through their open items log.
    • The reporting team has completed 14 of the 18 reports needed during Prototype 2 reviews.

SCIO Trips/Visits

  • Oklahoma City (November 16-17th)
  • Los Fresnos (November 18th)