Happy Labor Day! For the week of September 7, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
The LEARN Board meets at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday
IT Governance Updates
- The TTVN Governance Board meets at 1:30 p.m. Friday
Repeats
Vendor Partner Updates
- Occam is setting up a virtual lunch and learn at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 15 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
- Occam is setting up a virtual lunch and learn at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 15 to introduce their tools; please contact Bob Surette (bsurette@occam.global) if you plan to attend
System-Wide Contracting News
New
The RELLIS network as a service agreement with AT&T has been signed; all products and services available to RELLIS are available to each and every member of the Texas A&M University System. The agreement is available for your review and consideration
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
- Qualtrics provides feedback from customers, employees, and students; the System Offices has agreed to a system-wide agreement starting September 1; details to come
- GoReact is a software tool to provide feedback on student videos; the system-side agreement is nearly finalized
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)
- 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)
- 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
- September 11 (Denver, CO)