Happy post-Thanksgiving week. I hope that you were able to prudently enjoy time with your family and friends in the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic. For the week of November 30, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
IT Governance Updates
- The CIOs meet Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. for their monthly CIO Chat
- The LEARN Board meets Thursday at 8:30 a.m for their 4th Quarter Board Meeting
Vendor Updates
- NetApp will hold a 45 minute webinar at 2:00 p.m. on December 10 (WebEx details to come); I encourage you to attend or send a person to learn how NetApp is working with IHEs
Join Us for a Conversation with NetApp – The Cloud Specialists!
Did you know that NetApp helps colleges and universities across the world embrace the cloud? NetApp helps you to move to the cloud faster, offers more features and functions in the clouds you use (AWS, Azure, GCP), and helps you drastically reduce your monthly costs in the cloud. NetApp is the hybrid multi-cloud data specialist. Matt Lawson (LinkedIn), Principal Architect at NetApp and a former Higher Ed CTO, will host this session and discuss how NetApp can simplify the cloud, make the cloud more secure, help you do more with the cloud, and help you reduce the cost of the cloud
Watch a 1.5 Minute NetApp Intro Video (YouTube)
- A report on CAG’s AV work with PVAMU was distributed
System-Wide Contracting News
In Process
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:
- Several under consideration
- A new RFP for mobile application development has been posted
- A RFP team for an electroinc signature tool is being formed; please contact your CIO for more information
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)
- Access Data provides preservation hold software (assessed)
- Adobe provides full Creative Cloud suite and Adobe Pro software tools (discretionary)
- AT&T provides network as a service and related services (discretionary)
- Automatic Sync provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Banner COE (CAG) provides Banner-related services (discretionary)
- Blackboard provides a cloud-based learning management system (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 (assessed)
- Duo (Cisco) provides two-factor authentication (assessed)
- Examity provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary contract)
- eXplorance allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- 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)
- Microsoft provides business software and services (assessed)
- 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)
- 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)
- ProctorU 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)
- Syncplicity provides secure file storage and sharing (assessed)
- TeamDynamix provides cloud-based IT service and project management software (discretionary)
- Verbit provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- WebEx (Cisco) provides online collaboration and meeting software (discretionary)
SCIO Trips/Visits
- No tris are scheduled