Smoother sailing: Custom data analytics apps at CoE
U-M College of Engineering is creating custom analytical applications to help administrators leverage the vast amounts of information available from U-M enterprise systems.
Category Archives: Features
College of Pharmacy introduces secure testing with ExamSoft
The U-M College of Pharmacy implemented a new, secure testing solution for high-stakes exams. ExamSoft functionality allows for comprehensive assessment at the student and program level.
HITS and ITS partner to FREE THE DATA
A new and improved API Directory was released on June 16, 2017. Over time, the API Directory will provide a rich repository for developers, researchers, and others to conveniently and securely use institutional data from all U-M’s missions—teaching and learning, research, clinical care, public service, and administration. An API (or Application Programming Interface) can be used to connect… Read More »
Tech hype: A review of emerging technologies
What is emerging technology? A standout conference session at Enriching Scholarship tackles these questions and more.
Born accessible: Adding accessibility to product acquisition
While U-M has an obligation under Federal law to adopt products that are accessible to everyone in the campus community, not all vendors have the same obligations. To help address this gap, the Information Technology Accessibility Group (ITAG) of the Big 10 Academic Alliance seeks to create a common understanding with vendors of the accessibility requirements and considerations… Read More »
Get more from your data
Using Tableau Software’s visual analytics capabilities, the Analytics and Business Intelligence Team (ABI) helps Michigan Medicine units gain new insight from their data. (Formerly known as Fast Analytics, ABI is part of Health Information Technology & Services, HITS). Kelly Miller, application programmer/analyst with ABI, describes the basics of ABI and Tableau like this: “Imagine you have a pickup… Read More »
ITS introduces new service for consistent AV on campus
A new audiovisual service aims to help units design and build cost-effective solutions for conference rooms that integrate with U-M infrastructure.
HITS supports Epic go-live at MidMichigan Health
A team from the HITS training staff headed north last month to help with MidMichigan Health’s launch of its electronic health record.
MWireless shines at MHacks 9
For a modern-day student hackathon, a fast and rock-solid WiFi connection is critical to success.
We heard you! Duo “Remember Me” coming May 13
“Remember Me” will allow you to check a box and not be prompted for two-factor via the U-M Weblogin page for 12 hours.
Try these alternatives to Adobe apps
Does your unit use Adobe apps? Whether you need to design and publish print material like catalogs and magazines or produce digital graphics and videos, there is a growing need for software that supports creative asset development at U-M.
2017 Michigan IT Symposium: What’s next?
Over 200 attendees of the 2016 Michigan IT Symposium provided their feedback on what worked well and what they’d like to change for next year.
Enterprise IAM program aims to unite university
A new program seeks to solve the challenges the U-M community faces when it comes to accessing university resources with U-M accounts.
Hacks with Friends: 48 hours to fame
At Hacks with Friends, over 100 Michigan IT staff came together with explosive creativity, demonstrating the value of cross-pollination and, in many cases, the expertise to build working prototypes in under 48 hours.
Making common digital tasks accessible
It’s important to give accessibility and the needs of users with disabilities consideration in our daily communications. There are common digital tasks we perform that, with a small amount of effort and forethought, can be more supportive of users with disabilities. As U-M employees we are both morally and legally obligated to support the needs of disabled users.… Read More »
SPH IT forecast: More clouds, no rain
One of the goals of the NextGen Michigan initiative was to free unit IT from supporting common infrastructure so that it could focus more on unit-specific tasks and innovation. The School of Public Health (SPH) took this very much to heart, on the one hand taking advantage of “commodity” services that ITS can provide more efficiently and at… Read More »
AIX decommissioning saves time, reduces costs
In January, ITS decommissioned AIX hardware after migrating close to 100 databases and 200 application servers, realizing impressive benefits for the university.
The School of Dentistry has collaborated with several partners to develop the first cloud dental electronic health records system specifically designed for dental education. CAEN, the College of Engineering IT group, has licensed a service called Kumo that allows users to map cloud-based storage drives such as U-M Box and U-M Google Drive to a drive letter. ITS announced continued service and additional products for BlueJeans, including access to Primetime through May 2018 and BlueJeans onSocial (Facebook Live integration).
First dental EHR in the cloud
CAEN pilots cloud storage mapping service
BlueJeans videoconferencing adds new features
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