Category: Projects and Processes
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Cloud Infrastructure Migration Planning update – December 2018
Welcome to the Cloud Infrastructure Migration Planning (CIMP) update, provided by the Cloud Advisory Group (CAG). The mission of the CAG is to facilitate the adoption of cloud computing across LITS for the purpose of migrating Emory’s on-premises data center infrastructure to Amazon Web Service (AWS). The goal of this monthly article is to provide…
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London calling: the ITSMO Team to upgrade ServiceNow tonight
Tonight, December 7, ServiceNow will be upgraded to the latest release, named London. ServiceNow releases are named after cities from around the globe. Our current version is Jakarta, and we will be skipping over the K release (Kingston) in order to move to the most current version supported by ServiceNow. In the last few years,…
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Emory Libraries now has a Wikipedian in Residence
Emory Libraries has selected Caroline Scheving (pronounced SKAY-ving) as Emory’s first ever Wikipedian in Residence. Caroline, an art history major with an English minor, doesn’t actually reside in the library (although she might argue that she does because of her coursework). As Wikipedian in Residence, her job is to improve and enhance Wikipedia by using Emory Libraries’ unique…
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Cloud Implementation Migration Project update
As Emory continues to evolve in the ever-changing university computing landscape, cloud computing stands at the forefront of the next era in IT. Emory’s Cloud Implementation Migration Project (CIMP) certainly has IT professionals across campus taking note, with record numbers attending our presentation at the IT Briefing in October. The purpose of this project is to…
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Emory Libraries Leadership Development Program finishes second cohort
The second Libraries Leadership Development Program recently completed its extensive training program, which included executive education, goal setting and review, crucial conversations to get better results, introduction to project management, situational leadership, the Birkman Method, and diversity and inclusion. This second cohort took a year to complete and was developed to provide employees with effective…
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ATS Updates – Teaching with Canvas Cohort
As part of our expanded outreach and communications plans, I wanted to share with you all the progress of our Teaching with Canvas Cohort. “Teaching with Canvas” is a pilot program for the 2018-19 academic year designed to help faculty rethink and reimagine how they use the Canvas Learning Management System to engage their students…
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Important performance management update
You should have received an automated email from the PeopleSoft system announcing that the FY19 performance management forms have been created for you. As you may recall, with the upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.2, the performance management process is now a year-round process that is initiated at the beginning of the fiscal year and includes a…