AHS ComputingActivities May 2012

Terry Stewart

IT Director

Applied Health Sciences

Spring Term Plans

• Annual AHS Computing Planning meeting (June), dependent upon:– UW Strategic Plan– AHS Strategic Plan– UW IT Strategic Plan– IST Organize for Success

Spring Term Initiatives

• Virtual Desktop• Shared Space for Researchers• Asset Management• RT - will be setting this up for AHS• Windows 2012 server• SANS security course (6 days)• Office 2013 rollout and courses• CANHEIT

IT Strategic Plan

• Draft of Initial Statement Distributed• Potential Opportunities

1. Revitalize our Student Environment

2. Grow our technology Environment

3. Build on foundations to support Research/Administration

4. Usability, delivery and support of IT

1. Revitalize our Student Environment

• Remote access to specialized software• Mobile applications• Connectivity• Portal• Co-op (replacing Jobmine)

2. Grow technology environment

• Means for setting University directions for teaching and learning

• Create avenues towards next technology• Work with D2L to build learn• Increase support for collaborations tools• Evolve technologies deployed in classes

3. Build IT foundations

• Work with stewards of data top provide• Improve data centers• Consider cloud use services• Provide local storage if need for things

such as dropbox/video/audio/etc.

4. Usability, delivery and support of IT

• Integrated help desks• Improve communications• Fix usability problems• Develop a usability resource• Provide software distribution online• IT staff development

AHS Strategic Plan

• Implications?