Dan Mentzer, Senior Systems Administrator, College of Engineering

OneIT door-access automation project saves significant staff time

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Managing door access at the College of Engineering used to be a complex and time-consuming endeavor involving both technical and administrative staff. Even without its new annex, the college had 177 doors with electronic access control. The Iowa One Cards of nearly 3,000 students, faculty, and staff had to be manually provisioned to swipe into the appropriate classrooms, labs, conference rooms, and offices. 

The card-provisioning process became much smoother and more efficient in the past year thanks to a door-access automation initiative—a sub-project of the OneIT Identity Management Project.

Brandon Mills, IT Director, University Housing and Dining

OneIT end user support model helps units manage periods of peak demand

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Responding to peak workload periods became a bit more manageable when the Division of Student Life adopted the new OneIT shared service model for end user support. The change means the division’s technology experts are now part of a larger team of IT support professionals who help each other out to meet the needs of customers—especially in high-demand times.

Dawn Moore and Brenda Ulin

Business Intelligence project fosters culture of data-driven decision making on campus

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

When it comes to informed decision making, having reliable data is paramount. But, because simply collecting data isn’t always enough to facilitate a decision in a timely manner, University of Iowa Information Technology Services has initiated an efficiency project aimed at putting the UI’s robust amount of data in a format that can quickly be analyzed.

Annette Beck, director of Enterprise Instructional Technology and Evaluation and Exam Service for the ITS Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology

New Online Course Evaluation Tool Saves Departments Time, Money

Tuesday, February 02, 2016

ACE (Assessing the Classroom Environment) Online allows students to complete the evaluations at a time and place that works for them—on a mobile device in class, at home, or in a computer lab. Faculty will benefit from easy, online access to the data from their current and future course evaluations. The new tool reduces paper waste and requires significantly less staff time to administer. It is forecast to save the university $350,000 per year.

Information Technology Facility

Data Centers and Servers Project Saves Money, Creates Office Space Through Server Migration

Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Professor Claudio Margulis describes his positive experience consolidating his research clusters from the Chemistry server rooms to central facilities. The project team is working through a list of roughly 1,000 servers on campus, aiming to consolidate over 46 server rooms and closets to a significantly smaller number of centrally governed, managed, and supported multi-tenant data centers.

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