Priority Projects and Activities - September 2024

CITS Accountable Lead – Brent Nickles

Description: This is an extension of the effort to move databases to the cloud. These databases were moved to the cloud but need to be further moved into Azure SQL. This effort was completed by the end of September 2024.

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). All Azure firewall rules have been moved to Palo Alto. The directory and Shibboleth are expected to move in November 2024. The NSG conversion will follow.

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 have been resolving technical issues and optimizing the user experience while we plan the rollout of AVD more widely, starting with Central Administration.

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Holtz

Description: This project implements CRM Recruit in various schools. Overall goal is to retire web admissions. All implementations have now been completed and web admissions has been retied. This project is now complete.

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). All but one of the targeted databases have moved to move to the cloud, with the last one tracking to completion by early October 2024.

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. Much of the development is done and will be completed in early November 2024. Test planning and support planning are also underway. This application will roll out to campus late fall 2024.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: Implementation efforts continue with our partner, Huron. The project is now in the Test phase with a target goal of an April 2025 campus go-live.

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 underway and iterative development for reporting and integration will begin in November. 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 September 2024, of the 117 legacy reports, 41 will not be converted, 37 have been completed (or due to consolidations), 12 are scheduled to convert, and 27 are being analyzed to determine if they should be converted.

CITS Accountable Lead – Dr. Murray

Description: The Azure infrastructure and needed networking have been put together to create a Secure Research Environment (SRE). Both TriNetX, the research project feasibility appliance, and the SRE are currently in production use. We currently have 35 SREs in use at this time. This is now fully in production and the project is now complete.

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.

CITS Accountable Lead: Dr. Peter Murray

Description: The campus has engaged with Sweeten to provide requesters and purchasing agents enhanced access to diverse suppliers include MBE and WBE.   Direct access to Sweeten platform is now easily accessible from within the Quantum Financials application purchasing module.  This project is now complete.