Campus IT Priorities 2013-2014
Priority | Issue/Project | Notes |
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1 | Identity Management/Federation | Gartner Best Practices, Out of the Box solutions, Design, Policy development |
2 | Teaching/Learning Environment (Instructional Design, Collaborative Tools, Digital Media, Lecture Capture, LMS) | Flexible support from SLN for services, contracts for tools at best price |
3 | Business Intelligence/Analytics/Data Warehouse | Better price for ODS, better support for OBIEE, possible shared infrastructure/support. Cloud/hosted services. |
4 | Campus Business Process Improvements | |
5 | Software Infrastructure/Maintenance | Concurrency |
6 | Mobility/Mobile Development/BYOD | Best Practices, policies, legal issues, tools, leveraging our SUNY clout with vendors for mobile development, Collaboration on how to leverage mobile devices |
7 | Physical Campus Infrastructure (Storage, Core Network, Wireless Network, Data Center 10GB) | Improved purchasing power, aggregate purchasing, aggregate maintenance, financing and leasing options for large capital equipment purchases |
8 | Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity plan updates and testing/Remote off-site location | Best Practices, Memos of Understanding for sharing each others resources at times of disaster, ability and knowledge of how to purchase equipment quickly |
9 | Bandwidth Management | Political clout to get cheap broadband Internet across our state and to our campuses |
10 | Compliance/Litigation Hold, Document Retention/Storage | Best Practices, Policy Awareness, Training |
Gartner Top 10 CIO Business and Technology Priorities in 2013
Top 10 Business Priorities | Ranking | Top 10 Technology Priorities | Ranking |
Increasing enterprise growth | 1 | Analytics and business intelligence | 1 |
Delivering operational results | 2 | Mobile technologies | 2 |
Reducing enterprise costs | 3 | Cloud computing (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) | 3 |
Attracting and retaining new customers | 4 | Collaboration technologies (workflow) | 4 |
Improving IT applications and infrastructure | 5 | Legacy modernization | 5 |
Creating new products and services (innovation) | 6 | IT management | 6 |
Improving efficiency | 7 | Customer Relationship Management | 7 |
Attracting and retaining the workforce | 8 | Virtualization | 8 |
Implementing analytics and big data | 9 | Security | 9 |
Improving business processes | 10 | ERP Applications | 10 |
EDUCAUSE 2013 Top 10 IT Issues
- Leveraging the wireless and device explosion on campus
- Improving student outcomes through an approach that leverages technology
- Developing an institution-wide cloud strategy to help the institution select the right sourcing and solution strategies*
- Developing a staffing and organizational model to accommodate the changing IT environment and facilitate openness and agility
- Facilitating a better understanding of information security and finding appropriate balance between infrastructure openness and security
- Funding information technology strategically*
- Determining the role of online learning and developing a sustainable strategy for that role
- Supporting the trends toward IT consumerization and bring-your-own device*
- Transforming the institution's business with information technology*
- Using analytics to support critical institutional outcomes*
*Also one of the 2012 Top-Ten IT Issues