IT Management Council
February 11, 2005
Noon-3pm ETC 304
Absent Members: Jigang Liu, Mike Lopez, Ray Lou, Josh Schroder, Walid Safwat
NEXT MEETING: Friday, April 8, 2005 , ETC Building, Conference Room 304, 12:00pm-3:00pm
1. Academic Software Purchase Recommendation from the Academic IT Committee.
John O'Brien explained that the Academic IT Committee has asked further consideration of an "off-the-top" proposal for funding certain software contracts of systemwide benefit. The group discussed various aspects of this proposal and made the following recommendations:
- A strictly off-the-top approach may cause unnecessary problems since specific software applications may benefit some institutions but not others.
- It is important to have campuses involved in investing in decisions.
- It might be possible to group possible software purchases and ask campuses to participate or not-participate as ONE PACKAGE. John noted that there was not sufficient staffing at this point to do much more with software purchases than we currently do.
- A subset of the ITMC with some involvement from other staff (Kevin, Matt Anderson, for example) should discuss the best approach further.
ACTION ITEM: John agreed to convene this initial meeting
2. Security Screen Pass Issue
The
ITMC discussed problems caused by the default setting of the screen
pass software on computer classrooms and other locations.
3. ITS Customer Satisfaction/Scorecard 2005
John
provided members with an update on current plans with regard to
repeating the scorecard assessment combined with the ITS customer
satisfaction survey. The group discussed challenges related to survey
methodology and the desire for statistically valid findings this time
around.
4. New Research Director Function
John
announced that Larry Simmons will be taking on some additional
responsibilities, serving as IT Research Director. Individuals with
needs in this area should contact John. He explained that creating this
function was in direct response to the identified need in the 2004
scorecard findings, showing that this assessment work is taken
seriously. John was asked for information on the status of making
Gartner access available to campuses, and he indicated that Larry
Simmons will be handling this and that the issue of authentication is
still being worked on. Anyone needing access in expedited fashion
should contact John O'Brien.
5. Updates
- Joanne summarized the current status of the portal project and directory services project. Joanne reported that she has been advised by CIOs and others that the portal decision-making process must follow concrete progress on the directory services project, which is a tremendous undertaking.
- John provided an overview of the Desire2Learn implementation, in particular explaining the presence of Microsoft representatives for 3 days to review our D2L configuration and make recommendations that might improve performance.
