Priority Project & Activities June 2025

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: This project will replace the Real Estate group’s use of Archibus software (for facilities management) with an appropriate module in Asset Works, which is currently in use by the Operations and Management (O&M) group. This project is moving along in its process and is scheduled to be completed in early October 2025.

CITS Accountable Lead – Tom Hockensmith

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 continue resolving technical issues and optimizing the user experience while planning the rollout of AVD more widely, starting with Central Administration.

CITS Accountable Lead: Michael Brown

Description: We are assigning 5 of the 7 schools to build out the initial reporting capability for Degree Works, teaching report writers how to create their own reports in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). We are working on an implementation plan with the Registrar’s office. The first reports are being developed and reviewed.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: eDisclose, a financial disclosure reporting/tracking system currently used by the School of Medicine, will be implemented for further use by the rest of the University. The development continues as we narrow down to a go-live date. Test planning and support planning are also underway.

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Whyms

Description: Retiring the use of Google Apps for Education, including that provided to Alumni. At this point, we have all the schools except for the School of Medicine ready for a communications campaign to inform them of the changes and to provide them an opportunity to migrate their use away from Google apps for email or any other use, as well as ask UMB questions. SOM requires a deeper analysis for proper setup.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: Implementation efforts continue with our partner, Huron. The project is now in the Test phase. Testing continues as we work toward our late October launch of the new system.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

This project replaces Philanthropy's current fundraising system, Advance. A formal kick-off was held in September. Design sessions are complete. Iterative development for reporting and integration continues as we move closer to our user acceptance testing in late August. The target goal for go-live is January 2026.

CITS Accountable Lead – Michael Brown

Description: We are assisting the School of Nursing with migrating legacy reports to and developing new reports in Oracle Analytics Cloud for student data. All reports have gone into production. This effort is completed as of June 26, 2025.

CITS Accountable Lead – Dr. Peter Murray

Description: The goal for this project is to replace all the helpdesk ticketing platforms at UMB with one solution. The system SysAid, currently used by the School of Medicine, has been chosen to expand as the helpdesk ticketing platform across campus. The SysAid system appears to be configured for all the schools. We are receiving Jira integration enhancements at the start of July and will work this into the configuration so that tier-2 ticket processing can take place in that system.