IT Planning Channel Archive
IT Planning channel archive, including expired articles.
Insights into Berkeley IT expenses
For the first time, aggregate data about IT spending trends, covering FY 2001–02 through FY 2006–07, is available. We now know that the campus has been spending in the range of $127M to $136M per year on IT. Although total expenditures have not declined, the percent of the UC Berkeley budget spent on IT has declined from about 9.7 percent in FY 2001–02 to about 8 percent in FY 2006–07. These ratios are on a par with three other Carnegie-class institutions with roughly comparable data. September 16, 2008.
Student Systems 2012 project update #5
This is the fifth installment of an ongoing series of updates about the 2012 project, a project which calls for new governance structures, systematic planning of the next generation of student systems, and immediate steps to consolidate and safeguard student data. September 12, 2008.
FY 2008-09 IT Funding Request process
In this second year of the IT Funding Request process, submissions have qualitatively improved, with far greater consideration of architectural alignment and technology life-cycle planning. For the FY 2008–09 budget process, 13 out of 24 IT funding requests received IT Bank funding. In addition, a self-sustaining IT Loan Pool dedicated to technology efficiency opportunities was created. This year, two initiatives will receive loans from this pool. September 10, 2008.
TPO project management templates
The Technology Program Office (TPO) has recently created a set of project management documents to help all staff define and manage campus projects. The templates are designed to fit the needs of both technical and non-technical projects, and are simple and flexible enough to use for small and complex projects alike. April 16, 2008.
Developing and extending a cyberinfrastructure model
This is an abstract of a paper by Rosio Alvarez, CIO of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, that explores how to develop, deploy, and extend cyberinfrastructure assets within higher education -- both within and across institutions. Instructions for accessing the paper are included. March 10, 2008.
The evolution of the IT organization
CIO Shel Waggener reflects on the challenges a diverse and complex major research university faces in delivering high-quality IT services in a constantly evolving environment, and provides an overview of the changes Berkelely has undertaken to meet these challenges. March 5, 2008.
Student Systems 2012 project update #4
This is the fourth installment of an ongoing series of updates about the 2012 project, a project which calls for new governance structures, systematic planning of the next generation of student systems, and immediate steps to consolidate and safeguard student data. February 25, 2008.
Research and advisory services from Burton Group
The Office of the CIO and the campus Information Technology Architecture Committee (ITAC) are pleased to announce the availability of three research and advisory services from Burton Group, an organization that provides in-depth, vendor-independent research and advisory services focused on enterprise IT infrastructure technologies: Application Platform Strategies, Collaboration and Content Strategies, and Identity and Privacy Strategies. These services are available to all UC Berkeley employees. January 24, 2008.
A new paradigm for IT budget allocations
For the 2007-08 fiscal year, the campus took a major step forward in information technology (IT) activity-based budgeting. Integrated into the annual campus budget call, a new process was used to evaluate IT funding requests. The requests chosen for investment this year reflect a range of integrated technology projects in support of research, teaching and learning, student experience, and administration, that ultimately benefit the campus as a whole September 20, 2007.
Exploration of partnership opportunities for campus collaborative tools
Earlier this year, a diverse committee of campus leaders met with representatives from Google and Microsoft to explore the Google Apps for Education and Microsoft Live@EDU service offerings, and to determine if these vendors' offerings in the areas of mail, calendaring, and web-based file sharing are a reasonable alternative to UC Berkeley running these services locally (via the current CalMail, WebFiles, and CalAgenda services). This article gives a summary of the committee's findings. August 21, 2007.
