For the week of October 2, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
IT Governance
- The CIO Council meets Wednesday 1:00 p.m.
We learned from last week’s SACC meeting that DPS and DIR consider SB 1893 an “addendum” to existing Governor’s Tech ban
- SB 1893 is only about social media, specifically Tik Tok and other products from ByteDance; it has a far more restrictive exception process than the Governor’s Tech ban
- We believe the more restrictive exception process of SB 1893 applies only to the SB 1893 elements
- They do not have an updated model policy out yet and they have no deadline to produce it
- We also asked if DIR and DPS planned to list all subsidiaries and affiliates rather than everyone guessing if x company is affected; DPS did not answer the question but said using Edgar might be one method
We also learned something about HB 2060 and AI
- DIR has an AI Center of Excellence and you can join their AI user group
- As a reminder, HB 2060 established an AI Council separate from the AI user group; House and Sentate member appointment are in process
- We should receive the AI inventory template from the AI Council by March 1; the inventory is due by July 1
- The System Offices will provide suggested guidance and tools when we receive the template
Repeats
The draft of TX-RAMP 3.0 has been released for comment; the System Offices is coordinating a response to DIR
System-Wide Contracting News
In Process
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:
- Course Survey Tools (in development)
- CRM RFP (with Procurement)
- Data Management Office RFP (Reviewing reponses)
- LMS RFP (Posted)
- Proctoring RFP (with Procurement)
- Student Support Services RFP (Selections announced soon)
- Web Hosting RFP (in development)
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 business software and services, including Creative Cloud, Acrobat Pro, Captivate, FrameMaker and Sign (discretionary)
- airSlate / SignNow provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- AT&T provides network as a service and related services (discretionary)
- Aten Design Group provides web development services (discretionary)
- Automatic Sync provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Aventri supports virtual and hybrid conferences (discretionary)
- Barkley provides web development services (discretionary)
- Blackboard provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
- Campus Sonar provides specialized social listening services for higher education (discretionary)
- Campus Works provides Banner SIS services (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)
- Columbia Advisory Group provides Banner SIS services (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)
- 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 (Equifax) 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)
- Inventive Works provides web development services (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)
- NewCity Media provides web development services (discretionary)
- NextGen provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- OculusIT provides Banner SIS 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)
- Salesforce Government Cloud provides customer relationship management software (discretionary)
- SimpsonScarborough provides web development services (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)
- Strata Information Group provides Banner SIS services (discretionary)
- TeamDynamix provides cloud-based IT service and project management software (discretionary)
- Verbit provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- VisionPoint Marketing provides web development services (discretionary)
- VMware provides various VMware software, services and training/consulting credits (discretionary)
- WebEx (Cisco) provides online collaboration and meeting software (discretionary)
Travel
- No trips scheduled this week