Tag Archive: Systemwide

IT Sourcing Achieves $70 M in Benefit for UC

UC Office of the President in Oakland

By Yvonne Tevis. Efforts led by UC Systemwide Procurement’s IT strategic sourcing team achieved almost $70 M in “benefit” for UC in fiscal year 2021 by negotiating contracts with suppliers. That is $25 M more than in the previous year!…
Read more about IT Sourcing Achieves $70 M in Benefit for UC

Nominations Requested: Inaugural UC Data Privacy Award

Data Privacy Award, University of California

Data Privacy Day is celebrated each year on January 28 and represents an international effort to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust. In celebration of Data Privacy Day 2022, the UC campus…
Read more about Nominations Requested: Inaugural UC Data Privacy Award

Safety in the Skies: UC’s Drone Management System

A woman flies a drone over a field

By Diana Cox and Safa Hussain. In the past five years, UC campus students and staff—from engineering students to agricultural researchers to facilities personnel—have flown over 3,300 drone flights and logged over 2,100 flight hours in the skies above campuses…
Read more about Safety in the Skies: UC’s Drone Management System

UC IT Town Hall with President Drake, September 14

UC President Michael V. Drake, MD

Don’t miss the UC IT Town Hall with President Michael V. Drake on Tuesday, September 14. The town hall will be moderated by UC Davis CIO Viji Murali and incoming UC CIO Van Williams. This event will be recorded and,…
Read more about UC IT Town Hall with President Drake, September 14

What Were the Top 5 Stories for UC IT in 2020?

Top 5 stories

   By Mark Cianca and Yvonne Tevis. Well, COVID—and Remote Work and Learning The most-viewed blog article for 2020 is an open letter in February by UC’s CIOs endorsing alternative and flexible work arrangements to recruit/retain talent….
Read more about What Were the Top 5 Stories for UC IT in 2020?

Watch the UC OATS Video

A screenshot of the UC OATS platform

The UC Outside Activity Tracking System (UC OATS) took home the Golden Award at the 2020 Sautter Awards. UC OATS is a systemwide, multi-campus collaboration formed to facilitate the reporting and tracking of Outside Professional Activities (OPA) and identify potential cases of…
Read more about Watch the UC OATS Video

Celebrate NCSAM 2020 with UC

National Cyber Security Awareness Month

By Jeané Blunt. October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) and it is almost here. If you’ve participated in the past, then you’re used to the guest speakers, tips and tricks on how to stay safe online, and…
Read more about Celebrate NCSAM 2020 with UC

UC’s Got a New Payroll System: What’s Next?

The UCPath Center, located in a UC owned building in the City of Riverside, is a short walk from the Moreno Valley/March Field Metrolink Station.

By Mark Cianca. Very quietly, and with little fanfare, the largest business transformation initiative in the University of California’s history concluded at the end of last month. With the deployment in July at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the nine-year UCPath…
Read more about UC’s Got a New Payroll System: What’s Next?

CIOs Endorse Alternative Work Arrangements

Geisel Library to the Price Center, a student center which serves more than 30,000 visitors a day.The Geisel Library was designed in the late 1960s by William Pereira, who also designed SF’s Trans America building and UC Irvine.

In today’s hot technology job market, CIOs at the University of California (UC) face challenges recruiting and retaining information technology staff, and often encounter legacy rules around contemporary work practices – such as telecommuting and remote work. For this reason,…
Read more about CIOs Endorse Alternative Work Arrangements