February 2018

What's New?

AITS Gerty Building welcomes new team members!

• The Enterprise System Coordination (ESC)-Finance Production Support team, led by Barbara LeGrant, moved over to the Gerty Building last month. The ESC-Finance team coordinates maintenance and support of custom-built and purchased applications. This team helps to implement these applications, assist with upgrades, and perform application administrative functions for infrastructure applications such as SitePublish (Website), SharePoint (Intranets), and purchased applications such as iBuy and Intellecheck. The team also provides troubleshooting, optimization, and help desk support for these applications in support of AITS as well as campus customers.

Team Members:
Barb LeGrant
Alana Bennett
Amanda Hemming
Rob Law
Lori Pelmore
Jeanine Reese
Karen Sivils

Strategic Plan Update – Team 2: Administrative Software and Services Initiatives

1.1.2 - Create and deploy a service to provide a web services registry as well as a common repository for applications, enterprise message objects, and community source development initiatives with an improved governance structure and marketing.

• The web site, as a content delivery system, continues to be actively used by our integration partners. The website can be found at: https://www.aits.uillinois.edu/services/professional_services/enterprise_api_management. API definitions continue to be added on a regular basis. Efforts are underway to provide enhanced view/filter/search capability around the integration data model detail
  

1.6 – Begin feasibility study for the replacement of the Banner ERP system.

• AITS is in the discovery phase of this project. Activities include talking with peer institutions to understand their plans, talking to industry analysts (Gartner, Tambellini Group, etc.) to understand the trends, and determining what options exist for feasible ERP systems. Next steps would include gathering customer feedback to determine the viability of moving forward with a project that would include major business process redesign, understanding the reasons for moving forward, and gathering more data on costs.

Did You Know?

• You can post articles to our KnowledgeBase to either the internal or external section. The external area is what everybody can search. You can search the external area here: https://answers.uillinois.edu/ua/. The internal area only AITS employees can search. When AITS Employees search the internal area, both internal and external articles will appear. You can search the internal area here: https://answers.uillinois.edu/ua/internal/. If you want to create your own articles, you can find out how here: https://answers.uillinois.edu/ua/internal/page.php?id=23277.
  
  
• University of Illinois System Cybersecurity Training must be completed by February 14, 2018. This training is designed to inform you of the steps you can take to protect yourself, your family, and our organization from malicious cyber activity. You can log in to your Learner Dashboard to review and complete all of your training assignments via this URL: https://access.sans.org

Training Activities

BPI Facilitation Skills

• 2/1 – Urbana Campus Community Series Seminar: Reducing Waste When Creating a New College; 12:45 PM—2:00 PM; 505 E. Green St. (Champaign), Room 201
• 2/20 – Chicago Campus Lean Concepts Training; 8:30 AM—12:30 PM; Daley Library Room 1-470, East Campus
• 2/22 – Urbana Campus Lean Concepts Training; 9:00 AM—12:00 PM; 505 E. Green St. (Champaign), room 201

Project Management Training

• 2/21 – Urbana: PM Key Concepts; 10:30 AM—3:30 PM; 905 S. Goodwin Ave, Spicebox

Finance Reporting - Data Source Overview

• 2/6 – Urbana: Finance Reporting; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM; 111 E. Green St, Room 16

To register for DS courses, visit http://go.uillinois.edu/DSTraining

Schedule DS General Report Assistance

• http://go.uillinois.edu/WebiReportAssistance

Deployment/Rollout Activities in February 2018

• 2/8 – Monthly changes/improvements for the EDW and BI products
• 2/11 – Apply Oracle Security Patches Production
• 2/11 – Upgrading EASPROD, MSGPROD2,AMPROD, VNETPROD and VNETHOSP databases to Oracle 12c
• 2/11 – Routine maintenance on all Production Solaris/Linux servers
• 2/13 – Apply Microsoft critical patches to non-production servers
• 2/18 – Apply Microsoft critical patches to production servers
• 2/18 – Upgrade HRISPROD database to Oracle 12c

IT Committee Highlight

IT Power Plant Advisory Group

The IT Power Plant Advisory Group is an Initiative Governance Group that provides advice and recommendations to the IT Power Plant initiatives.

IT Power Plant Advisory Group Membership:

• Craig Flowers, Chair
• Chris Barton, AITS
• Brad Mahaffey, Engineering
• Chris Tidrick, Business
• Matthew McNeilly representing FAA, Swanlund and Law
• Steve Tondini, Auxiliaries
• Nick Rogers, DIA
• Todd Nelson, Technology Services Project Manager
• Gary Bernstein, Technology Services, Service management
• Brad Neavear, Technology Services, Ex-officio
• Greg Gulick, Technology Services, Ex-officio
• Beth Scheid, Technology Services, Ex-officio

Additional information about the IT Power Plant Advisory Group can be found at http://itgov.illinois.edu/it-power-plant-advisory-group/.