April 25, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Alison Spencer. By 2020, the UC Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) hopes to send 10,000 students on study abroad each year. To achieve this ambitious 82% increase in participation, UCEAP is trying to improve and simplify its processes, making…
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April 18, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
The University of California IT Strategic Sourcing has won the 2018 EPIC (Excellence in Purchasing Indirect Category) Award for Team Innovation. Presented at the ProcureCon Indirect East Conference held Feb. 20-22 in Florida, the EPIC Awards recognize and celebrate innovative,…
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April 11, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Innovations in Networking Awards are presented each year by CENIC to highlight exemplary innovations that leverage ultra-high bandwidth networking. The winning innovations have the potential to transform the ways in which instruction and research are conducted as well as further the deployment of broadband…
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April 4, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Michael Wegmann. UC IT Strategic Sourcing established a UC systemwide agreement in 2015 for Tableau business intelligence software used for data analytics and data visualizations. Systemwide use of Tableau grew since that time by over 46%. This high demand…
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April 4, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Greg Boyer. “Make your data make an impact.” That is the promise of Tableau, a market-leading tool for transforming your data into head-turning visualizations. No matter our role, every day we interact with databases, Excel files, and various reports…
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March 28, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Vishakha Panat. Is your new year’s resolution to get better at QA? You may want to consider continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) automated testing. UCSF’s School of Medicine Technology Services has adopted a CI/CD approach as a fundamental part…
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March 28, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
It may be the largest effort of its kind in higher education and possibly any industry: The University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) have joined forces around a singular procurement system that will benefit both entities and…
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March 28, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
The University of California has just celebrated its 150th anniversary, so in conjunction with it, UCOP Records Management held a small treasure hunt. Check out some of the items they found below—the prize was awarded to Executive Assistant Jenne Vargas-Maes,…
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March 21, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Laurie Sletten. March 23, 2018 – Charter Day – marks UC’s 150th anniversary. We know this because someone kept records in such a manner that the records were accessible and able to be referenced. In 1868, records were created…
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March 21, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julie Goldstein. UC recently signed a new systemwide partnership agreement with STOP. THINK. CONNECT.™ , which describes itself as a “global online safety awareness campaign to help all digital citizens stay safer and more secure online.” By becoming…
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