| Service Area | Prime Number Project Name |
Project Description | IS&T Project Manager |
| Administrative Sys & Reporting | 438553 – Undergraduate Bulletin Website | Develop an electronic web-based replacement for the print Bulletin to meet President Brown’s mandate to discontinue the paper-based Bulletin publication by September 2010. | Jaeckel, Roland |
| Administrative Sys & Reporting | 742628 – Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Training — Personnel supported by NIH / NSF grants – Extract | Provide a regularly scheduled extract of NSF/NIH Training grant paid personnel needs for Research Compliance. This will support the documentation required to verify compliance with federally mandated (NIH and NSF)training requirements in the responsible conduct of research (RCR). | Jaeckel, Roland |
| Administrative Sys & Reporting | 251152 – Compliance with MA motor vehicle law for Students (Student Link) | This project enables the University Registrar’s office to apprise out-of-state students of the Massachusetts motor vehicle law and enforces the consequences of not acknowledging the notification about the law. | Alturu, Hari |
| Administrative Sys & Reporting | 803157 – Financial Aid 2010/2011 Award Cycle | Incorporate annual changes from federal financial assistance programs in the calculation and awarding of financial assistance for incoming and continuing students at BU. | Yoest, Peter |
| Administrative Sys & Reporting | 871948 – Infrastructure Adjustment for Payment Industry Compliance (Credit Card) | Isolation of credit card processing from central web services to ensure compliance with credit card industry standards | Ramaswamy, Sundar |
| Administrative Sys & Reporting | 778384 – ALFA: Determination of inclusion in legacy integration | In preparation for the implementation of the new SAP ERP software on July 1, 2011-which will replace Boston University’s existing Financial, HR/Payroll and Procurement Systems, ALFA system for Faculty maintenance at the Provost’s Office will need to have some of its funtionality removed from the ALFA Menu. All new Faculty updates will take place in the new SAP system. The request from BUworks to replenish the ALFA files stemmed from an investigation that preceded the current PM led Legacy Integration. It was meant to address the voluminous executive leadership and compliance critical reporting executed outside of IS&T as well as the number of applications remaining in Legacy that utilize ALFA files. | Thomas, Robert |
| Administrative Sys & Reporting | 264744 – Reporting requirements for state around immunization compliance | Provide reporting to the state about student immunizations to comply with state requirements. | O’Grady, Michael |
| Administrative Sys & Reporting | 658324 – Student Refunds by ACH | Develop a system to allow students to request a refund when a credit balance exists on their student account. Students can then select to have refund deposited directly to their bank account or have a check mailed. This will eliminate the need for students to come to Student Accounts to pick up refund checks. | Dix, Stephen |
| Administrative Sys & Reporting | 10976 – RacEr 2010: New Affirmative Action Compliance Reporting | This Project took care of implementing the new guidance in all BU Central Administrative Information Systems that deal with Student, Faculty and Staff Race and Ethnicity information. We implemented central data files to store race and ethnicity information (currect and history) and support Federal race/ethnicity data summary reporting using IPEDS (Integrated Post sEcondary Data Systems) format. | Ramaswamy, Sundar |
| Administrative Sys & Reporting | 928049 – IRS Regulation Compliance and SAP System Requirement | Student employees who were paid monthly have been converted to weekly in compliance with IRS regulations. Changes were made in central administration procedures, departmental procedures, and the Student Employment application system. This change was implemented in order to prepare for integration with SAP, which requires that all student employee payment information be passed over as hourly. | Thomas, Robert |
| Administrative Systems and Reporting |
925100 – ApplicantLink – Application/Infrastructure Optimizations | Applicantlink Infrastructure and Application code is being reviewed for optimization opportunities and elimination of potential bottlenecks. This effort is undertaken in support of a succssful 2011 Application Decision Drop event and remediation of issues experienced in 2010. | Jaeckel, Roland |
| Administrative Systems and Reporting |
495537 – Improve graduate admissions statistics | Improve statistical data from graduate admissions from all graduate schools at BU. This will enable collection of consistent data to generate year to year comparisons, identify trends, enable forecasting, and track statistics on incoming graduates. | Jaeckel, Roland |
| Administrative Systems and Reporting |
180169 – Single Sign-on for SAP (BUworks BPO) | Implement Single Sign-On integration with BU Authentication for BU Works (SAP). | Grinman, Vladimir |
| Administrative Systems and Reporting |
800289 – Certificates Project | Enhance the University Registrar system to fully incorporate ‘certificate programs’ into the tracking and reporting structure afforded to traditional degree and non-degree programs. This will allow the Office of the University Registrar to track and report certificate programs in the same way we track and report degree programs—including generating a transcript for students who complete a certificate program. | Yoest, Pete |
| Communication/ Collaboration Sy |
591848 – Unified Messaging/Voice Mail Replacement | Investigation of UM solutions initially triggered by End of Service notice from Comverse for December 31, 2010. Solution provides reduced power and space requirements as the application is virtualized. New subscriber functionality includes email delivery of voicemail messages, web portal for setting preferences. | Maw, Cheri |
| Communication/ Collaboration Sy |
479278 – Word Press Migration of BU Libraries website (Investigation) | Collaborate with Marketing & Communications to investigate migrating the Libraries Website to BU WordPress CMS. Additionally, provide new functionality including: A custom theme with improved user interface/experience. Ability to search MetaLib, WorldCat Local, the Library catalog, and 5 additional repositories, integration of 7 custom forms and 6 custom applications. This update will improve the usability of the Library website and allow broader access to the wealth of resources and subscriptions available for research. | MacDowell, Trevor |
| Communication/ Collaboration Sy |
291566 – BU Mobile Web | Deveop and deploy the framework needed to allow Boston University to deliver mobile web content and produce two pilot mobile websites – Student Central, and Individual Course Schedule. | MacDowell, Trevor |
| Communication/ Collaboration Sy |
759976 – Now Message UM Design and Transition | System design finalization, contract negotiation, installation and conversion of Now Message UM solution from Common Voices. Project includes SIP gateway implementation as well as the migration of all voice mailboxes and auto attendant functionalityfrom existing Comverse system to new platform. | Maw, Cheri |
| Info Security & Bus Continuity |
10714 – Improve security approval process for transactions dealing with ID | Simplify the process of submitting and approving of security requests for access to commonly used ADABAS files | Grinman, Vladimir |
| Info Security & Bus Continuity |
441121 476477 520671 – Client Identity and Access Management | A set of projects related to the improvement of identity and access management policies, procedures and tools at Boston University. These projects are: Client Identity and Access Management, Identity and Access Management Infrastructure and Access Management Security | O’Grady, Michael |
| Research | 119971 – SCV GHPCC Datacenter Planning | This project is to establish the BU requirements for the green High Performance Computing Data Center that is being planned for Holyoke. This is a partnership between BU, MIT, Umass, Northeastern, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, along with several industrial partners. | Bresnahan, Glenn |
| Research Administration | 334823 – Institutional Review Board Software Implementation | Implementation of iMedRIS package to support human subject research compliance for BUMC and Charles River campus. | Jaeckel, Roland |
| Support & Infrastructure | 960508 – zOS 1.11 Upgrade | Upgrade the central BU IBM Mainframe computer to the latest operating system level. This platform serves as the processing host for mission critical applications including the Student Link, Business Link, and Galaxy systems. The project was completed on time without incident. | Shockley, Gerard |
| Support & Infrastructure | 781760 – BU Police Alarm System | New system provides redundancy and reliability, running in data centers on VMWare. | Maw, Cheri |
| Support & Infrastructure | 322387 – One Help Release 2.0 – Support of IS&T Help Center | Adapt and deploy One Help as the interim ticketing application for the IS&T Service Desk. | O’Grady, Michael |
| Support & Infrastructure | 575311 – BUWorks: Quality Assurance and Training Systems Infrastructure Design, Build, Delivery | Facilitate the design,layout,construction and delivery of the Quality Assurance and Training System Environments for BU Works. The AIX Logical Partitions and Windows VM’s will be built to specification as provided by the BUWorks BASIS Team. | Shockley, Gerard |
| Support & Infrastructure | 348263 – IT Service Management Ticketing Tool – RFI/RFP | Evaluate and select a preferred vendor for an IT Service Management suite of ticketing tools and services. The selection process will include an RFI, followed by an RFP en route to the selection of a preferred vendor. The tools/services are being evaluated against an ability to cost-effectively enable the following ITIL Processes: Incident management, Request management, Problem management, Change management, Configuration management, Knowledge management, Asset management and Event management. | O’Grady, Michael |
| Support & Infrastructure | 779883 – 660 Corp Project | The objective of this project was to address recommendations made by BU Internal Audit in an information technology audit of the 660 Corporation. Several audit findings identified opportunities to improve upon internal controls as well as areas of security, operations and change management. The project was comprised of co-locating the 660 Corp server environment to the 881 Commonwealth Data Center. Additionally, a set of formalized IT policies and procedures was developed. | LaSalle, Charles |
| Support & Infrastructure | 191826 – Pinnacle Upgrade V5 to V6.3 | Upgrade the Pinnacle Communications Management Suite to the latest version which will allow users to conduct sophisticated interactive real-time analytics so that we can better understand telecommunications services costs and usage patterns. This information will allow management to make better business decisions regarding use of telecommunications services; automate provisioning activities with our vendors, streamline our workflow processes and improving the overall integrity of our service order transactions; and streamline data management activities allowing us to provide enhanced service management capabilities to our users | Kelley, Annemarie |
| Support & Infrastructure | 535108 – BUWorks: Production Systems Infrastructure Design, Build and Delivery. | This project will facilitate the design, layout, construction and delivery of the Production SAP Environment to the BUworks BASIS Team. The AIX Logical Partitions and Windows VM’s will be built to specifications provided by the BASIS Team. | LaSalle, Charles |
| Support & Infrastructure | 210539 – Storage Assessment / Backup Assesment | Hire a consultant to provide a Storage Assessment of the current and planned storage services for the Charles River and BUMC campuses including a recommendation and roadmap for how to get from here to there. Project Scope Change: Added in a Backup Assessment with same consultant (Cambridge Computer) Nov. 12th. | Gup, Peggy |
| Support & Infrastructure |
932433 – ASA Firewall Deployment | Installation of new Cisco (ASA) firewalls on several key subnets housing PCI, HiPAA, and FERPA data | Gerdon, Brian |
| Support & Infrastructure |
220402 – Virtual Server Cluster | After evaluating hardware and software options for a Virtual Server offering, purchase and deploy hardware and software, and develop service offering. Virtual servers typically have a lower total cost of ownership than physical servers hosted in data centers. Virtual servers use less power and cooling, supporting University sustainability goals and improve resource utilization in the data centers. Virtual servers should be less affected by hardware failures and maintenance requirements. Provisioning a virtual server is much faster than provisioning a physical server. The VM cluster is hosted in a secure, environmentally monitored environment. | LaSalle, Charles |
| Support & Infrastructure |
485191 – Laptop Backups | Investigate, test, select and implement a laptop backup service “in the cloud”. Scope added Dec. 13, 2010 to include student option, migration of current laptops backed up on campus, and target of administrative groups. | Gup, Peggy |
| Support & Infrastructure |
892888 – Office 2010 Roll-out | Roll-out Office 2010 to departments supported by IS&T Desktop services | Hagen, Mark |
| Support & Infrastructure |
755629 – Data Center Consolidation | Urgent – Upgrade power and other environmentals at 881 Short Term – 25 Buick Street consolidation and decommissioning to free up space Medium Term – Create a strategic plan to consolidate and then decommission Agganis Arena. Longer Term – Decide what to do with Silber Way |
Tomeo, Thomas |
| Teaching & Learning Technology | 851645 – Classroom Media Technology Upgrade for 30 Classrooms – Summer 2010 | Installing fixed instructional technology in classrooms and raising them from a Level I to a Level II Classroom Technology Standard. | Gineitis, Algimantas |
| Teaching & Learning Technology | 383618 – Sargent Choice Nutrition Analysis App | Investigation of a potential meal planning and nutrition analysis application for the BU community. | Cortes, Sarah |
| Teaching & Learning Technology | 703443 – Learning Management Systems: Developing a Roadmap | Develop a roadmap for BU’s Learning Management System by holding focus groups, assess potential alternatives to Blackboard, and develop recommendation for either upgrading to Blackboard 0 or consider moving to another platform. | Cortes, Sarah |
| Teaching & Learning Technology | 668088 – Distance Education / Vista: Service Improvement Plan | Improve Blackboard Vista service for Distance Education, focusing in the areas of staffing, system performance, and client support. | Cortes, Sarah |