It is the first week of classes and it is Board Week across The Texas A&M University System
For the week of August 25, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
Board of Regents
- The CEO and Presidents meet with the Chancellor Wednesday
- The Board of Regents meet in Open Session Thursday at 2:00 p.m.
IT Governance
- TAMU’s ITAC meets Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.
Repeats
IT Vendors
- Omnissa (formerly owned by VMware) will be holding a lunch and learn session on August 26
- The Omnissa Platform is the first AI-driven digital work platform that enables smart, seamless, and secure work experiences from anywhere. Integrating multiple industry leading solutions and built on a common data, identity, administration, and automation service layer, it delivers personalized and engaging employee experiences while optimizing security, IT operations, and costs
- Omnissa (formerly owned by VMware) will be holding a lunch and learn session on August 26
System-Wide Contracting News
In Process
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:
- Course Survey Tools RFP (Explorance, SmartEvals and Watermark selected; agreements pending)
- Closed Captioning RFP (awarded to 3Play Media, Aberdeen, TPUSA, Verbit; agreements pending)
- CRM (Blackbaud, Technolutions and UC Innovations executed; Anthology is with the vendor)
- Mass Notification RFP (Critical Arc, Everbridge and Summus agreements executed; Rave has not responded)
- Web Hosting RFP (Low Code solutions (Duda is with procurement, Squiz and WebFlow have not responded) WordPress solutions (Vertosoft and Pantheon executed))
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)
- Accelevents supports virtual and hybrid conferences (discretionary)
- Accenture provides data management services (discretionary)
- AdmitHub fosters student success with artificial intelligence-powered mobile messaging and chatbots (discretionary)
- Adobe provides business software and services, including Creative Cloud, Acrobat Pro, Captivate, FrameMaker and Sign (discretionary)
- airSlate / SignNow provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- AT&T provides network as a service and related services (discretionary)
- Aten Design Group provides web development services (discretionary)
- Barkley provides web development services (discretionary)
- BerryDunn provides data management services (discretionary)
- Blackbaud provides cloud-based fundraising and CRM services (discretionary)
- Blackboard (Anthology) provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
- Campus Works provides Banner SIS services (discretionary)
- Canvas (Instructure) provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
- CGI provides data management services (discretionary)
- Cisco Strategic Relationship supports the AT&T NaaS RELLIS services and includes discounted Cisco products and services (discretionary)
- Columbia Advisory Group provides Banner SIS services (discretionary)
- CriticalArc provides safety, security and emergency management solutions (discretionary)
- D2L provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
- Daman Inc. provides data management services (discretionary)
- Deloitte provides data management services (discretionary)
- Diligent provides board portal functionality (discretionary)
- DocuSign provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- Duo (Cisco) provides two-factor authentication (discretionary)
- Everbridge provides emergency mass notification services (discretionary)
- 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 (Granicus) is the TAMUS approved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution (assessed)
- Guardian I-9 (Equifax) provides electronic I-9 compliance verification (discretionary)
- Honorlock provides online proctoring services (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)
- Inventive Works provides web development services (discretionary)
- IOTA Solutions allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- KTech Products provides an AI-powered chatbot designed for students, managing both academic and non-academic interactions (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)
- Meazure Learning provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary)
- Microsoft provides business software and services (direct bill)
- Modo Labs supports mobile application development (discretionary)
- Navex provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary)
- NewCity Media provides web development services (discretionary)
- NextGen provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- OculusIT provides Banner SIS services (discretionary)
- Oracle provides a shared hardware/software platform to host Oracle-based applications (discretionary)
- Pantheon provides web hosting services (discretionary)
- Palo Alto provides firewalls and associated security subscription services (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)
- Proctorio provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary)
- Protiviti provides data management services (discretionary)
- Qualtrics provides an online survey tool that supports building and distributing surveys and analyzing the responses (discretionary)
- Salesforce Government Cloud provides customer relationship management software (discretionary)
- SimpsonScarborough provides web development services (discretionary)
- Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links, and accessibility (assessed)
- Smart Net (Cisco) provides Cisco equipment maintenance (discretionary)
- SmarterServices provides on-line proctoring services (discretionary)
- SmartEvals (Gap Technologies) allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Sprout Social provides a social media management platform (discretionary)
- Sterling provides background check services for employment, employment screening, drug testing, I-9 employment and education verification (discretionary)
- Strata Information Group provides Banner SIS services (discretionary)
- Stova supports virtual and hybrid conferences (discretionary)
- Summus Industries provides data management services (discretionary)
- Summus Industries provides emergency mass notification services (discretionary)
- TaxBandits (SpanEnterprises) provides e-file services for Forms W-2, W-9, 1099, 94x and 1095
- TeamDynamix provides cloud-based IT service and project management software (discretionary)
- Verbit provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Vertosoft provides WordPress services (discretionary)
- VisionPoint Marketing provides web development services (discretionary)
- VMware provides various VMware software, services and training/consulting credits (discretionary)
- WebEx (Cisco) provides online collaboration and meeting software (discretionary)
Travel
- No trips scheduled