A great weekend for the Aggies in the Swamp
For the week of September 16, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
There has been some misunderstanding about the purpose of the Workday Student Exploration Committee
- Given the likelihood that Ellucian will push its customers to their SAAS solution in the future, the system is exploring SIS alternatives including Workday Student
- A committee has been formed to explore only the technical viability of one alternative, Workday Student
- Results of the technical exploration will be used to decide if it makes sense to continue researching the tool
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
- Nov: Board approval
- 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
- Projectized Solutions LLC
- HUB
- Awarded the Purchasing Cooperative of America Contract #PCA OD-407-24 for job order contracting; this award enables them to extend support across all facets of IT and minor construction for commercial and business initiatives
- Contact the CEO Errol Sykes directly for more information (see Sept 9 email)
- Broadcom / VMware updated timeline
System-Wide Contracting News
In Process
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development:
- Chatbot (Best Value letter signed; agreement pending)
- CRM (OGC is reviewing Anthology; Procurement is reviewing Blackbaud and UC Innovations; Technolution and Affinaquest are with the vendor)
- LMS (Canvas and D2L executed; Anthology pending)
- Maestro Evolution RFP released Aug 9; responses due Oct 1
- 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 pending)
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)
- 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)
- 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
- No trips scheduled this week