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CIO Update for the Week of Sept 21

For the week of September 21, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:

News

New

  • IT Governance Updates

    • CATIE meets at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday

     

  • Texas A&M University opens its long awaited football season on Saturday at Kyle Field

Repeats

  • Vendor Partner Updates

    • Occam is setting up a SECOND (repeated) virtual lunch and learn at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 29 to introduce their tools; please contact Bob Surette (bsurette@occam.global) if you plan to attend
      • Present Occam the Company and ETS the Platform
      • Demo the ETS Solution
      • Answer Questions

System-Wide Contracting News

New

  • The Strategic Relationship Agreement with Cisco has been executed

  • The system-wide agreement with GoReact has been executed

In Process

  • A new RFP for mobile application development has been posted

  • A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:

    • Interfolio has been approved by the A&M System IT governance groups as the sole system-wide solution for recruitment, hiring, tenure tracking and career and compensation; TAMU and PVAMU already have member agreements with Interfolio; this opt-in system-wide contract now enters the contract negotiation and implementation planning phase

     

Repeats

  • Current A&M System-wide Contracts:

    • 3 Play Media provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
    • Access Data provides preservation hold software (assessed)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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