Information Technology Update University of Alabama at Birmingham Sheila M. Sanders

Information Technology Update University of Alabama at Birmingham

Sheila M. SandersAugust 30, 2005

Updates/Activities underway

SCT Banner Student Information System (SIS) • Current Activities• Budget

Proposed West IT site expansion project• Equipment room expansion – Education Bldg.• Telephone System upgrade and expansion – Rust/Education

Student System Activities

SCT Project management and functional consultants are on site

Project team training completed in these areas• Navigation• General Person• Recruiting/Admissions/Advancement – Mid-September

Portal Project kick off – September 20, 2005

Student System Budget

Expenditure Category Budget Paid YTDSoftware $1,240,914 $1,190,914Hardware/Storage 866,000 91,034SCT Support

Training, Functional and technical 6,008,652Other technical 845,000Contingency 500,000

Total Project Budget: $9,460,566 $1,281,948

IT Equipment Environment-today

UAB has two main IT Equipment SitesCentral IT site - Rust Bldg. (1801 University Blvd.)

• Equipment housed at this site:• Servers for our Administrative Systems• Mainframe – current Student Information System• Main telephone system • Email servers• Network equipment• Internet routers

• Areas served• Research buildings• Medical Center• East side of campus

West IT site – Education Bldg. (901 13th St. South)• Provides network and telephone services• Serves Academic buildings and Residence Halls

IT Equipment Environment- proposed

Expand West IT site space • Current space cannot accommodate future growth in this area of the UAB

Campus Distribute IT services more evenly between the Central and West IT

site• Redundancy of services in case of disaster

Upgrade the UAB Telephone System• New architecture upgrade will allow fail over between the West and

Central IT sites for disaster recovery purposes• Expansion to accommodate growth of the UAB campus and Medical

Center• Existing Nortel Switch will remain in tact with software upgrade to protect

UAB’s investment

Next Steps

Review by Physical Properties Committee in September• Approval to proceed with the architect/engineer selection

Develop specifications and requirements for a competitive bid process for the telephone system upgrade

Information Technology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

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