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.
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.
A new program seeks to solve the challenges the U-M community faces when it comes to accessing university resources with U-M accounts.
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.
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 »
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 »
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). Proper planning and expectation setting were the keys to a successful website redesign effort for the School of Social Work. Register today for Hacks with Friends 2017—a fun-filled event where you have two days to break out of your confines, form a team, build a project (or hack) from scratch, and show it off in a competition! Health Information Technology & Services (HITS) and Information and Technology Services (ITS) recently asked their staff to use two-factor authentication (Duo) whenever they log in using the Weblogin page. In 1990, women held 35% of computing occupations in the U.S. By 2015, that number was reduced to 25%. The goal of the Women in IT CoP is to share knowledge and explore how we can promote diversification in IT at U-M. The use of AWS can be a flexible, robust, and cost-effective tool for specialized classroom computing environments. New year, new site, new features! Read about some of the improvements based on reader feedback that you’ll find on the NEW Michigan IT News site. Most New Year’s resolutions focus on self-improvement. But what about making a resolution for 2017 that helps others? Flint ITS is providing tech support for a new center that will deliver much-needed early education services for children across Flint. Michigan Enterprise Strategic Assessments, better known as MESAs, are making a splash here and at other universities. Over 500 IT professionals, administrators, and other community members from across all U-M campuses gathered at the third annual Michigan IT Symposium.
First dental EHR in the cloud
CAEN pilots cloud storage mapping service
BlueJeans videoconferencing adds new features
Planning a content-driven SSW site redesign
Register NOW for Hacks with Friends 2017
Join HITS and ITS staff in using two-factor
Women in IT promotes diversity
AWS in the classroom
Welcome to our new home!
Try mentoring for your 2017 resolution
Flint IT supports new pre-school program
MESA: Bite-sized strategy tool has super-sized impact
Michigan IT Symposium creates connections and showcases innovation
