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Delivering the Next Best Experience for Students, Faculty and Staff

The 鈥淔oundational鈥� element requires us to modernize architecture, infrastructure, and information security needed to offer a more contemporary experience. These are the things that no one asks IT for, however, it鈥檚 expected and required that we鈥檝e done this work to position our organizations for the future. It will include advances in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Single Sign-On. Due to the many and varied relationships a university maintains, higher education requires a more complex IAM model than I鈥檝e ever experienced in any corporation. We have embarked on the Foundational theme with a set of programs, 鈥淟DE Foundational Security and Collaboration Program鈥�, which consists of nine unique projects that modernize our architecture for digital platforms and better user experiences. 

Data, Dashboards, Digitization, Innovation

The 鈥淭ransformational鈥� element will focus on Data, Dashboards, Digitization and Innovations that will help us advance technology, data services and decision support systems. We have a business intelligence practice that is partnering across the institution to build data models and visualizations that use our rich data sets in ways that were difficult to achieve previously. The early projects are generating great results! Additionally, we鈥檒l be activating a number of efforts to incorporate appropriate use of Internet of Things devices and sensors to measure things and collect data, and then to contemplate how we plan for bandwidth and storage to accommodate those services. And we鈥檙e very interested to explore emerging services in artificial intelligence, machine learning and augmented/virtual reality to both augment our technology services but also to enhance the teaching and learning experience.

"Simple, Secure, Seamless"

The 鈥滳onsumable Experience鈥� will be the most visible to our customers and friends. We want the digital experience at 黑料门to be 鈥渟imple, secure and seamless鈥� so that no matter what your relationship with 黑料门you can fulfill your relationship in a digital environment that is easy to navigate, safe, and engaging. We know that aging technology is frequently an inhibitor; most of us cannot handle the complexity of change management and magnitude of cost to do a massive swap-out of all technology components at once. As a result, we鈥檒l be thoughtful and planful for how we combine old stuff with new stuff to enable a better experience. We鈥檒l be counting on things like virtualization and cloud solutions applied in the right places, in the right ways at the right times to help accelerate our progress. We鈥檙e excited about what the future holds in this new strategy, and we鈥檙e comfortable knowing that we don鈥檛 have all the answers today. The market is full of disruption and we will be watching for those disruptions that will be timely to embrace.