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CIO Update for the Week of Oct 28

And now there is one! Texas A&M is the only undefeated team in SEC league play. Maybe, just maybe this is a special year for the Aggies

For the week of October 28, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:

News

New

  • IT Governance

    • The CIO Council meets Tuesday at 10:00 a.m.
    • The A&M System IT Shared Services Council meets Friday at 2:00 p.m.

     

  • Thank you to all who attended the Workday event at Kyle Field on Saturday. It was a special time to meet with Workday, Deloitte and TAMUS staff

Repeats

  • IT Vendors

    • Broadcom / VMware updated timeline
      • Aug / Sep: VMware meet with members
      • Early Oct: Members “opt in” / approval process
      • Oct / Nov: TAMUS procurement process
      • Jan: Contract start date
    • Dell
      • Dell will host an executive briefing on artificial intelligence on November 19 in Austin at the Dell Executive Briefing Center
      • Contact Mark Stone if you want to attend this one-day briefing
    • Scan13
      • Scan13 has a system-wide agreement with TAMUS
      • The System Offices will pay for the introductory risk management mitigation training
      • Any member who wants to engage Scan13 for on-going risk management reviews must pay for that on-going service themselves; TAMUS will not pick up those charges
      • Since Scan13 is being sold as a risk management mitigation service, I encourage each CIO/CISO to speak with the appropriate member representative (e.g., CHRO, CFO, etc.) engaging with Scan13

     

System-Wide Contracting News

In Process

  • A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:

    • CRM (Blackbaud executed; Anthology, UC Innovations, Technolutions (signatures pending) and Affinaquest are with the vendor)
    • LMS (Canvas and D2L executed; Anthology pending)
    • Maestro Evolution RFP (vendor selected; agreements pending)
    • Mass Notification RFP (Rave and Everbridge selected; agreements pending)
    • Proctoring (Protorio, SmarterServices and Honorlock agreements are executed; Meazure Learning is with OGC for review)
    • Web Hosting RFP (Low Code solutions (Duda, Squiz, WebFlow) and WordPress solutions (Vertosoft, Pantheon) agreements being finalized)

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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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

  • TAMU (Oct 29)