The students are back across the system. For the week of August 19, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
The NaaS RFP responses are due in one week on August 26
Docusign will be onsite at Texas A&M at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday
The financial system replatform vendor will demo their proof of concept work at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday
The anniversary date for the Adobe ETLA is 9/2; in order to maintain the yearly anniversary payment, Abode proposes the following schedule:
- 8/21: End of additional commitments or add-ons
- 8/23: Adobe sends the final amendment to Mark Stone
- 8/29: The system sends the signed executable to Adobe
- Week of 9/2: The system issues a PO to Adobe
As was noted earlier this morning in Danny Miller’s email, the SOC and CIRT Teams were dispatched on Friday to assist in the ransomware attack hitting 23 entities across the State. The performance of the two teams was outstanding. TDEM, DIR, FBI, and others were highly complimentary of the professionalism and competency of the two teams. Please join me in congratulating them for their past, current, and on-going work on this attack. These team members will be learning a lot that can be transferred to strengthening TAMUS’ ability to prevent and respond to similar attacks
System-Wide Contracting News
New
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development
- Captioning Services will provide members with closed caption, transcription, and subtitling solutions to make video accessible, searchable, SEO-friendly, and more engaging
- Interfolio is a self-service web database program that allows faculty (or staff) to use the Internet to maintain their teaching, research, and service records; the System Offices received a proposal for a system-wide agreement and is working with the System Procurement Office to develop a competitive bid for this product
- Portfolium will provide students and recent graduates with the ability to connect with businesses and employers using previous academic work and projects to supplement their communication; the System Offices is waiting on the final financial proposal from Instructure to add the product to the existing system-wide agreement
- Sedona Systems is a self-service web database program that allows faculty (or staff) to use the Internet to maintain their teaching, research, and service records; the System Offices is in conversations to obtain a proposal for a system-wide agreement
Repeats
922Current A&M System-wide Contracts
- Access Data provides members with preservation hold software (in annual assessment)
- Adobe provides members full Creative Cloud suite and Adobe Pro software tools (discretionary)
- 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)
- Navex provides members with a ethics and compliance management (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)
- WebEx online collaboration and meeting software is available to all members at the low cost of $1.44 per month per license (discretionary)
- Zoom online collaboration and meeting software provides members with an alternative to WebEx, GoToMeeting and Adobe Connect
SCIO Trips/Visits
- No trips scheduled this week