Description: Develop a consolidated data center and server room strategy to align with a cloud-first approach, improving disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response.
Benefits: Provide increased service management through automation, financial savings in reduced utility costs and repurposed spaces, and improved security visibility.
Description: Modernize @ucla.edu email address flow by retiring current forwarding infrastructure, and leveraging Google's built-in spam and forwarding capabilities.
Benefits: Simplified email flow and improving UCLA's security posture.
Project Leader Name: Tony Rudd
Description: Unify email and directory services under common platform(s).
Benefits: Enhance collaboration, reduce costs and risks, and increase efficiency by consolidating various email platforms into a single, university-wide enterprise email service.
Description: Reimagine and unify our network to enable a scalable, flexible and secure foundation for digital innovation now and into the future.
Benefits: Create a seamless and consistent connected experience across UCLA to meet the diverse needs of students, faculty, and staff
Project Leadership: Heather Healy (Program Director)
Enterprise Information Security
Description: Strengthen campus-wide cybersecurity capabilities and establish a secure digital environment in support of UCLA’s mission
Benefits: Protect and empower the Bruin community by creating a security-minded culture while enhancing the University’s ability to anticipate and respond to cybersecurity threats
Project Leadership: Heather Healy (Program Director)
Application Modernization
Description: Implement Oracle Financials Cloud to achieve crucial, modern efficiencies, streamline reporting needs, and meet regulatory requirements.
Benefits: Modernizes campus financial systems and transforms business processes.
Project Leadership: Mark DeMaio (Program Director)
Description: Replace UCLA’s aging mainframe-based Financial Aid system.
Benefits: Improves student financial aid portal experiences with interactive features like an embedded financial aid calculator, four-year financial aid projections, and document upload with eSignature.
Project Leadership: Ming Fu (Program Director) and Samantha Hamman (Project Manager)
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Description: Deploy digital signage technology that displays real-time information, announcements, and emergency alerts, engaging students, faculty, and visitors with dynamic, cost-effective, and sustainable content management.
Benefits: Creates a more connected and engaging educational environment through real-time digital signage.
Description: Introduce an integrated employee experience platform with a single place to manage work needs and transactions.
Benefits: Improve the efficiency of campus operations by transitioning to cloud-based services, which will enhance access to information, foster better relationships, and automate workflows for UCLA faculty and staff.
Description: Introduce a campus-wide student experience platform that provides an integrated digital experience, enabling easy class enrollment and real-time access to academic, financial, and personal records.
Benefits: Enhance personalized services, better serve diverse needs, and improve engagement, aiming to create a seamless and inclusive environment for all students.
Enterprise Data & Analytics
Description: Build a program that enables university decision making through a flexible and robust data foundation and collaborative data and analytics model improving institutional outcomes.
Benefits: Improve data governance, integration, and accessibility, leading to better management, security, and data-driven decision-making across the campus.
Academic Technology
Description: Upgrade classroom technology to campus-wide general assignment classroom standards that prioritize a modern, flexible education experience.
Benefits: Create a standardized, equitable learning environment with interactive and modern tools to enhance collaboration and flexibility for students and faculty.
Description: Reduce campus Google Workspace for Education (GWE)'s storage consumption to within newly mandated limits per UCLA's licensing, in response to Google eliminating free unlimited storage.
Benefits: Optimize how data is stored in Google Workspace through improved security, controls, and account management to ensure adequate storage to support UCLA's mission.
Project Leadership: Tony Rudd (Project Manager)
Description: Discovery exercises focused on evaluating the present state and R1 benchmarks to support future adoption of a modern SIS solution.
Benefits: Modernize UCLA’s student systems with a scalable solution that will provide real-time analytics, actionable insights, and a personalized digital experience for students, enhancing campus-wide efficiency and decision-making.
Description: An effort to improve efficiency and streamline IT operations be consolidating disparate IT units across campus administration into a more centralized structure.
Benefits: Streamlined and consistent service, effective resource allocation, improved customer service, increased cross-team collaboration.
Project Leadership: Jennifer Ferry (Project Manager)
Description: An internal organizational transformation which includes new professional development opportunities for staff; clearer career pathways; new ways of working; a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion; and a new organizational structure.
Benefits: Increased pathways of career growth, learning and development opportunities, improved customer service and user experience, modern ways of working, and enhanced network and security posture.
Project Leadership: Jennifer Ferry (Project Manager)
