For a brief moment last week, the eyes of the nation were on College Station and more particularly, Texas A&M University. Both the city and the University did an outstanding job of honoring a great man as he was laid to rest at the Bush Presidential Library. For the week of December 10th, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
There is a meeting Monday with Quilt representatives to discuss their willingness to review TTVN
The three finalists for the SOC Assessment RFP will make presentations Wednesday
Texas A&M’s ITAC meets at 8:30 a.m. Thursday
The TTVN Governance Committee meets at 1:00 p.m. Friday
The RFP for the re-platform POC of FAMIS was released last week
Registration for the 2019 Texas A&M University System Technology Summit is now open!
The Tech Summit is the place technology experts come to learn from the best and will once again be held at the beautiful Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas February 25 – 27, 2019
System-Wide Contracting News
New
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development
- Adobe will provide members with the full Creative Cloud suite and Adobe Pro software tools. The proposal is being finalized
- Captioning Services will provide members with closed caption, transcription and subtitling solutions to make video accessible, searchable, SEO-friendly and more engaging; conversations with vendors selected by CATIE are underway
Repeats
Current A&M System-wide Contracts
- Access Data provides members with preservation hold software (in annual assessment)
- Banner COE provides members with Banner-related services (discretionary)
- Blackboard provides a cloud-based learning management system option to members (discretionary)
- Canvas provides a cloud-based learning management system option to members (discretionary)
- Class Climate (Scantron) provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- D2L provides a cloud-based learning management system option to members (discretionary)
- Diligent provides board portal functionality for all members (discretionary)
- DocuSign provides members with electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- Duo provides two-factor authentication for all members (discretionary)
- Examity provides members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary contract)
- eXplorance provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- GovQA (WebQA) is the TAMUS approved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution for all members (in annual assessment)
- Guardian I-9 (LawLogix) provides members with 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 provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Laserfiche provides members with the digitization of documents, the automation of records processing, storage retrieval, security and archiving (discretionary)
- Modo Labs provides mobile application development support (discretionary)
- Oracle provides members with a shared hardware/software platform to host Oracle-based applications (discretionary)
- ProctorU provides members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary)
- Proofpoint email filtering and data loss prevention tools (in annual assessment)
- Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links and accessibility for 54 cents per web page per year (discretionary)
- Smart Net (Cisco) offers members equipment maintenance (discretionary)
- SmartEvals (Gap Technologies) provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Syncplicity licensing is available for all members (in annual assessment)
- Varonis will provide members with insider threat protection (discretionary)
- WebEx online collaboration and meeting software is available to all members at the low cost of $1.44 per month per license (discretionary)
SCIO Trips/Visits
- A&M-Central Texas (December 14)