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Fall semester 2017 started with a bang! Faculty, staff and departments across campus worked tirelessly to get students settled and to kick off another academic year at Bowling Green State University. Many thanks to all, your efforts did not go unnoticed. In fact, below are some of the amazing feats in technology that took place during the start of school.
On Tuesday, August 22, the second day of fall semester, the BGSU campus exceeded six (6) gigabytes of data per second on the network for the first time ever. Visually, six gigabytes of data is 6000 - four file cabinet drawers full of paper each second! Seven years ago, the campus network traffic was less than 1/12 of that amount; thank you Netflix and YouTube!
Students, faculty and staff are known for bringing ITS surprises when they return to campus. Take our most recent surprise – 47,000 new devices attached to the network, with 30,000 of them in residence halls and 98% of the total connected wirelessly. Talk about a busy move-in weekend! Amazingly enough, only 12 of those 47,000 new devices had malware on them!
Twenty-two new and updated classrooms and labs in University Hall, Mosley Hall and the Education Building were added to the growing number (85) of renovated classroom spaces for teaching our students. This will leave about 50 Grid classrooms and labs left to renovate.
In addition to our start of school endeavors, the ITS applications team has been busy upgrading several of the University’s most important applications. Back in 2005, BGSU installed Oracle’s PeopleSoft ERP (enterprise resource planning) system, comprised of three major components: Campus Solutions (CSS), Financial Management System (FMS) and Human Capital Management (HCM). By 2018, we will have completed upgrading all three systems to the latest and LAST version of PeopleSoft. Once complete, only tools updates, patches and fixes will need to be applied. End of Life for the PeopleSoft system is 2027.
Thanks again for a fantastic start to the school year!
Sincerely,
John Ellinger, CIO
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November 29, 2017
J.D. Vance visit
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December 1, 2017
Graduate College Form Automation Go-live
Develop 20+ electronic DocuSign forms to replace existing hardcopy forms on the Graduate College website. This includes electronic forms, signatures, workflow, and form archival in OnBase.
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December 8-10, 2017
CSS Upgrade
Upgrade CSS version 9.0 to 9.2. Also included is an upgrade to PeopleTools v8.55.15, Oracle 12c, and moving to the hosted datacenter located at Buckeye TeleSystems.
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December 15, 2017
SharePoint - Getting Started Training & SharePoint – Site Owner Training
infopro.bgsu.edu
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December 21, 2017
25 Live Implementation Go-live
25Live is the new room scheduling application for BGSU. This replaces the Resource25 system with a web based system that brings a number of business process improvement to campus.
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December 28, 2017
Pharos Upgrade
Upgrade Pharos version 9.0.8467.36 to 9.0.9001.622 R2. Also included is a migration from existing datacenter to the hosted datacenter located at Buckeye Telesystems.
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December 31, 2017
Graduate Contracting Application Upgrade for Graduate Assistant Time and Labor
Upgrade the existing Graduate Contracting web application and further customize PeopleSoft to streamline the contracting process in order to eliminate manual data updating and syncing issues. In additional, create multiple web app and Web Report Library reports to provide the appropriate financial detail to stakeholders.
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508 Refresh & website accessibility
Graduate College form automation
Replacing technology on campus
Secure email solution now available
Two Step Authentication for email
Service with a smile
ITS Known Issues Webpage
/ITSBGSU
@BGSUTechSupport
bgsu_its
YOUTUBE