It was an amazing weekend in Aggieland with the largest concert attendance record ever for King George’s concert
For the week of June 17, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
IT Governance
- The CIO Council meets Thursday at 1:00 p.m.
IT Vendors
- Broadcom / VMware
- VMware is transitioning their pricing process and data to Broadcom’s system and the transition is delaying the company’s ability to provide pricing quotes; there is no ETA for completion
- Broadcom / VMware
Repeats
IT Vendors
- Microsoft
- MIcrosoft will hold a CoPilot Lunch & Learn July 11; details to follow
- Palo Alto
- The Texas A&M University System is in close collaboration with our cybersecurity partner, Palo Alto Networks, to extend the existing Enterprise Agreement for an additional five years; this extension will provide predictable cost and continued collaboration
- Your account team will reach out to discuss the details of your portion under this agreement extension; please make time to meet with them and verify all details; three members have not responded to meeting requests
- Our goal is to complete the extension in July
- Microsoft
System-Wide Contracting News
In Process
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:
- 1099 Form Services (posted; responses due May 23)
- Chatbot (under consideration)
- CRM (five agreements in development)
- LMS (Canvas and D2L signed; Anthology pending)
- Mass Notification RFP (posted; responses due Jun 3)
- Proctoring (three agreements are pending; Proctorio has been signed)
- Web Hosting RFP (five responses are being evaluated)
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)
- Blackboard (Anthology) provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
- Campus Works provides Banner SIS services (discretionary)
- campusM (Ex Libris) supports mobile application development (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)
- 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)
- Examity provides on-line proctoring 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Portfolium (Instructure) 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)
- Proviti 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)
- TeamDynamix provides cloud-based IT service and project management software (discretionary)
- Verbit provides closed captioning 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
- RELLIS (Jun 17)