Happy Halloween week. Fall has arrived in earnest—the World Series, fall weather and great college football. For the week of October 26, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
IT Governance Updates
- The Finance Modernization Executive Sponsors meet at 2:00 Monday
- The Workday HCM Advisory Council meets at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday
- The A&M System IT Shared Services Council meets at 1:00 p.m. Thursday
Vendor Updates
- I have sent information on Doctums Testing as a Service from Doctums Global
System-Wide Contracting News
New
The system-wide, opt-in agreement has been signed with Interfolio; it will be posted to the website this week
In Process
A new RFP for mobile application development has been posted
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:
- Several under consideration
Repeats
Current A&M System-wide Contracts:
- 3 Play Media provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Access Data provides preservation hold software (assessed)
- AT&T provides network as a service and related services (discretionary)
- Adobe provides full Creative Cloud suite and Adobe Pro software tools (discretionary)
- Automatic Sync provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Banner COE provides Banner-related services (discretionary)
- Blackboard provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
- Canvas 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 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)
- 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)
- Pluralsight offers a variety of video-based training for software developers, IT administrators and creative professionals (discretionary)
- Portfolium 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)
- Proofpoint email filtering and data loss prevention tools (assessed)
- 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 trips scheduled this week