Priority Projects & Activities - March 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 currently in the design phase.

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). This project was successfully completed in March 2025.

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 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 have full requirements from all schools except for Nursing. Nursing’s most critical needs have been identified.

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 is being completed. 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. The second round of System Integration Testing has been completed. We have reassessed our timeline and are now targeting a 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 nearing completion and iterative development for reporting and integration continues. 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. As of December 2024, all but 36 of the 117 reports have been dealt with; those 36 will be handled separately. 22 RPTS accounts have been eliminated; eliminating the 5 that remain depend on dealing with reports for the Grants database and the VA database. This effort is expected to conclude by the end of January 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. We have established the schools as entities within the SysAid system and are now confirming the functionality configuration fully meets our needs. Tier-2 ticket processing will take place in an external system called Jira. The vendor is providing integration with Jira to meet this need.