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CIO Update for the Week of Sep 11

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?

     

     

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

     

  • 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)