For the week of September 11, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
IT Governance
- The Maestro Steering Committee meets Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.
- The Executive IT Council’s TAC 216 Subcommittee meets Wednesday at 9:00 a.m.
- TAMU’s ITAC meets Thursday at 8:30 a.m.
Vendor Updates
- The 5-year Cisco SmartNet agreement will expire August 31, 2024
- We will form a working group to negotiate the renewal of this agreement; Who is interested in being on the working group?
- The 5-year Cisco SmartNet agreement will expire August 31, 2024
Repeats
Vendor Updates
- The System Offices is trying to formulate a rational and efficient approach to provide cellular wireless network coverage at all A&M-System members; we’re considering creating a template for partnering with the commercial cellular operators (AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon) to create a wireless ecosystem, where each member would own a neutral host network
- In order to better understand the feasibility of this approach, we need to get a sense for existing agreements with any third party (such as a commercial cellular operator, Crown Castle, Extenet, etc.) where this outside entity owns any rights to provide or maintain cellular networks (either outdoor cellular or indoor/outdoor DAS)
- Can you provide me with any existing agreement(s) your member has?
- Amazon Prime is looking for a member (not named A&M-Commerce since they widely use Amazon Prime) to be the second member to pilot a broad use of Amazon Prime for orders less than $5,000; please contact me if you are interested in implementing an Amazon Prime solution similar to A&M-Commerce
- The System Offices is trying to formulate a rational and efficient approach to provide cellular wireless network coverage at all A&M-System members; we’re considering creating a template for partnering with the commercial cellular operators (AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon) to create a wireless ecosystem, where each member would own a neutral host network
Nick McLarty distributed the revised DPS and OGC approved prohibited technologies plan for the 18 members whose plans were rejected; please resubmit this revised plan
Danny Miller is working with OGC to develop a notification of how TAMUS members will be directed to transition from Blackbaud to another CRM system; please stand by as this notification has been revised multiple times
System-Wide Contracting News
In Process
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:
- Course Survey Tools (in development)
- CRM RFP (with Procurement)
- Data Management Office RFP (Reviewing reponses)
- LMS RFP (Posted)
- Proctoring RFP (with Procurement)
- Student Support Services RFP (Selections announced this week)
- Web Hosting RFP (in development)
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)
- 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)
- Automatic Sync provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Aventri supports virtual and hybrid conferences (discretionary)
- Barkley provides web development services (discretionary)
- Blackboard provides a cloud-based learning management system (discretionary)
- Campus Sonar provides specialized social listening services for higher education (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)
- Cisco Strategic Relationship supports the AT&T NaaS RELLIS services and includes discounted Cisco products and services (discretionary)
- Class Climate (Scantron) allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Columbia Advisory Group provides Banner SIS services (discretionary)
- D2L provides a cloud-based learning management system (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 (WebQA) 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Dallas (Sep14-15)