Langara College Information Technology IT Info-Session Mar, 2015 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Langara College Information Technology IT Info-Session Mar, 2015 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Agenda 1 IT Vision & Strategy 2 IT Organization 3 IT Operations Restructuring 4 Project Updates 5 Email Project 6 Citrix 7 Project


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Langara College

Information Technology

IT Info-Session – Mar, 2015

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Agenda

IT Vision & Strategy IT Organization IT Operations Restructuring Project Updates Email Project Citrix Project Leapfrog

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IT Vision

The Langara Information Technology group aims to provide effective, sustainable and innovative solutions that help students, faculty and staff achieve their mission.

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IT Strategy

Adopt disciplined and process driven approaches Adopt and integrate readily available solutions Leverage shared service opportunities Collaborate with the Higher Education IT community

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IT Organization

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IT Operations Restructuring

  • Combine and grow the Service

Desk and Computer Support functions

  • Implement Knowledge

Management (KCS)

  • New service optimizations

coming soon

Client Service ces

Alex Go Goldman Team Le Lead Damon Ste tennett tt Service Desk Coordinator Support Ameet Bains Stan James Daniel Kavanagh VA VACANT NT VA VACANT NT VA VACANT NT VA VACANT NT Operations Nelson Yuen Eddie Yuen Andre Hastick Julie Lo Paul Deol Aaron Brooks Instructional Assistant Neil Amsler (IA) Kevin McMillan (IA)

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Project Status

Project / Initiative Health Progress Last Change Risk Risk Description Leapfrog 0% Staffing for discovery Pending resources Windows XP Migration 0% Initiation Student Drive Migration 0% Initiation Fluid Survey 50% Implementation Timing Spring Service Pack 50% Development Resources Telephony (VOIP) 0% Research Translink Compass 90% Go-Live preparation Pilot: April / GA: June Essential Business Continuity 0% Staffing for discovery Pending resources PCI Compliance 50% Preparing for training Resources Knowledge Management (KCS) 20% In Training Resources Email 60% IT Pilot (IT) Resources Service Desk Reorganization 70% Staffing Rebuilding HR Capacity 35% Signing contracts

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Email Project

  • Standardize email system across Langara
  • Change from @langara.bc.ca to @langara.ca
  • Email application will be upgraded to MS

Outlook 2013

  • New features: shared calendars, tasks, global

address book, 10GB mailbox, enhanced web interface, enhanced security.

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Email Project Status

  • Co-op Department migration complete
  • Next groups:
  • Homestay
  • HR
  • International Education
  • Office 365 users
  • Notice will be given to staff prior to migration
  • Outlook 2013 training sessions available in

April

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Citrix

  • Improving system stability

– Most of the reported issues have been resolved

  • More applications to come
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What is Project Leapfrog?

Business Process Review and IT Transformation to Optimize Business Processes and their alignment with Langara Strategy and Achieve Information Technology Sustainability

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Genesis

Project Leapfrog originated from:

  • Departments’ requests for process

improvements

  • Departments’ requests for new systems and

system improvements

  • Increase in technology demands beyond the

current capacity of IT

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College Wide

Project Leapfrog is a College-wide initiative lead and governed by the Project Steering Committee

(It is not an “IT” project)

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Q & A