The month of October arrives this week. For the week of September 27, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
IT Governance Updates:
- The LEARN Q3 Board meets Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
Repeats
Vendor Updates
- I met with RingCentral last week and they wanted to pass along this information to the members; if you are interested in speaking with them, please contact them directly
RingCentral delivers a world-class cloud-based communications solution to meet the evolving needs in education. Our solutions empower today’s educators, students, and staff to be connected anywhere and on any device through voice, video, team messaging, collaboration, SMS, conferencing, online meetings, contact center, and fax, whether they are on campus, mobile within the district, or virtual.
RingCentral provides an open platform that integrates with today’s leading education apps (i.e., Learning Management System, Google, Microsoft) while giving schools the flexibility to customize their own workflows.
Our extensive cloud experience will deliver a great modernization opportunity with meaningful qualitative and measurable quantitative benefits.
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- Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for the past six years for UCaaS innovation
- Providing five 9s reliability for all our customers with almost no downtime
- Offering seven layers of security and compliance for COPPA, FERPA, HIPAA
- Security on campus is paramount – Read about our latest nomadic 911 efforts to support compliance with Kari’s Law and Ray Baum’s Act
- Push innovation on your campus to drive student engagement with our approach to the Digital Campus – it brings everyone together
Michael Fiocca (Dedicated Education Leader at RingCentral)
Michael.fiocca@ringcentral.com
System-Wide Contracting News
In Process
Posted RFPs:
- Virtual Conference Software Solution (opens in a separate window)
- Electronic Signature Solution (opens in a separate window)
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:
- DocuSign (options for an electronic sgnature tool(s) will come out of the electronic signature solution RFP)
- Oracle perpetual campus license
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)
- AdmitHub fosters student success with artificial intelligence-powered mobile messaging and chatbots (discretionary)
- 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)
- Campus Sonar provides specialized social listening services for higher education (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)
- 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)
- LinkedIn Learning provides video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative and business skills (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)
- Sprout Social provides a social media management platform (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