Priority Projects and Activities June-2023

Azure Networking 

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: This project sets up the necessary Azure foundation components such as networking configuration; implementing the Palo Alto firewall, including moving exiting Azure firewall rules, converting network security groups (NSGs), move School of Medicine (SOM) to the CITS Azure Express Route (excluding University of Maryland Medical System [UMMS] network range). The NSG conversion continues with the Infrastructure group. We are also converting existing firewall rules to Palo Alto through routing.

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) 

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Whyms

Description: This project will establish Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) framework & presence for a variety of use cases and investigate posture checking capabilities to evaluate remotely connecting devices. We are currently conducting a pilot with CITS  and Central Administration users. We are also piloting the use of thin operating system hardware to access the virtual desktop. These devices are less expensive than traditional workstations and laptop computers.

Change Analog Phone Lines to VoIP 

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: This project will assess all telephone lines and move all analog lines to Voice over Internet Protocols (VoIP) that can be moved.  Further progress is being made to convert lines that can be converted, including the blue light emergency phones.

ColdFusion Moving to the Cloud 

CITS Accountable Lead: Trisha Kaufman

Description: This project will move all applications running on the ColdFusion platform to the Azure cloud environment. 28% of ColdFusion applications have been migrated as of the end of the fiscal year. Further effort for this project will continue.

Concur Travel and Expense System Implementation  

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: This project implements the new travel and expense system, Concur. It will include implementing additional functionality, such as initial reporting and encumbrances. The new system rolled out to all users April 10, 2023, and the old system has been closed out. Initial reports have rolled out into Production. We are currently creating encumbrances to be sent to analytics.

CRM Recruit Implementation 

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Holtz

Description: This project implements CRM Recruit in various schools. Overall goal is to retire web admissions by March 2024. Working with School of Medicine with a target end date of October 1, 2023. This includes 4 programs within SOM. School of Dentistry has chosen a different CRM tool and will need assistance integrating it with Banner.

Data Cookbook Installation and Setup 

CITS Accountable Lead – Michael Brown

Description: This project will install and perform the initial setup of the Data Cookbook Cloud application to capture data & reporting documentation, as well as enable the data quality assurance capabilities. A SAR report went through the workflow successfully and we have received feedback from the pilot users. This project is complete as of May 15, 2023.

Databases Moving to the Cloud 

CITS Accountable Lead – Brent Nickles

Description: This project moves UMB databases into cloud environments. Moves for systems such as Advance, Banner, and others will be to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Others will move to the Azure cloud.

Decommissioning of F5 Load Balancer 

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: This project will determine how we can decommission the F5 server traffic load balancer and achieve load balancing with existing tools. The following have all been dealt with: MediaSite, Maximus, eUMB Financials, Raven. Shibboleth has moved to Azure and no longer uses F5. LDAP has been retired. Redirects for the following sites/domains have been moved to Terminal 4: umaryland.edu, pharmacy.umaryland.edu, schoolmentalhealth.org, and ssw.umaryland.edu.

Degree Works Implementation 

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Holtz

Description: This project implements Degree Works in various schools. Completed with the School of Social Work May 31, 2023. Also working with the School of Law and the School of Pharmacy.

Human Capital Management (HCM) Pre-Implementation Phase 

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: Working with our planning partner Huron, we have prepared for implement of the new system Readout for this work has been shared and the decision has been made to move forward. Procurement activities are moving ahead for software and consulting with actual implementation expected to begin in July 2023. This phase was completed June 30, 2023.

New Portal for Veterinarian Resources (Cayuse) 

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: We will help deploy a cloud-based portal for veterinarian resources for the School of Medicine. User acceptance testing was completed and production turnover took place July 1, 2023. This project is complete.

School of Nursing Banner Reports Pilot 

CITS Accountable Lead – Michael Brown

Description: We have been assisting the School of Nursing (SON) with developing new reports in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) for Banner by teaching their report writers how to create their own reports in OAC. A blank T4 website was created for additional pages. SON has converted their reports and are testing them.

Student Reporting for Multiple Schools 

CITS Accountable Lead – Michael Brown

Description: We are assisting the Bursar’s office and the Registrar’s office with migrating legacy reports to and developing new reports in Oracle Analytics Cloud for student data. Report conversions for School of Dentistry, the Grad School and the Registrar are underway. The new dean of the School of Law has provided us with reports they require.

Student Secure Research/TriNetX/AVD (Hospital data project) 

CITS Accountable Lead – Dr. Murray

Description: The Azure infrastructure and needed networking have been put together to create a Secure Research Environment (SRE). Several pilot users are currently using the environment. The TriNetX research project feasibility appliance successfully conducted a pilot and is now in production use.