Site License Advisory Team
March 31, 2015 meeting
Agenda
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Qualtrics
Secunia Presentation
ExamSoft
Adobe CC Home Use
Microsoft Renewal Options
Renewals and Upgrades
OSU Purchasing IT and eStores Vendor Expo
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Qualtrics
• We have several KB articles created for signin, upgrade codes, and collaboration.
– KB04697 – Sign-in
– KB04699 – Upgrade Codes
– KB04706 – Collaboration
• Department contacts have been set up for
many of the academic units. We also have
setup contacts for non-Academic units as
well.
– Contact dangler.8@osu.edu to set up a
departmental administrator (or more than one)
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Secunia Presentation
• Secunia license expires in Nov. 2015
• Original purchase paid for by Engineering,
OCIO Security, and OSUMC
• We will begin exploring renewal in future
meetings
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Identity Finder CIC Contract
• The Committee on Institutional
Cooperation (CIC) has entered into a
contract with Identity Finder for DLP.
– Contract guarantees pricing for perpetual
licenses and maintenance going forward
– These slides are informational only: they do
not represent a departure from the Symantec
DLP product provided by Enterprise Security
– If you wish to use Identity Finder, please work
with Enterprise Security directly.
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ExamSoft
• Arts and Sciences and ODEE are working
on a license
• ExamSoft is an exam authoring tool to
create and distribute tests online, with
feedback to faculty regarding data and
insights into how tests are working
• If you have interest, please contact Mike
Kaylor in ASC: Kaylor.1@osu.edu
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Adobe CC Home Use
• OSU Purchasing is working on this
agreement a bit more
– Questions remain in Adobe and in OSU about
the scope of usage
– We have found ways to distribute the software
• OSU Purchasing will be working on Single Sign-On
so we can avoid going through a third party
vendor.
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MS Office 365
• OSU Purchasing and OCIO are working
together on this
• Timeline:
– Student O356 is now scheduled for July 2015
– Faculty/Staff O365 will be a separate project
begun after that.
• There are technical and tenant issues that need to
be resolved before Fac/Staff O365 can be rolled
out.
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Microsoft Renewal
• Our agreement comes up on 6/30, when we
will enter year 3 of our 5 year agreement.
• Microsoft’s landscape continues to change:
– O365 released to students “at no charge” in Oct
2013
– O365 released to fac/staff “at no charge in Dec.
2014
– Windows 10 to be a free consumer upgrade
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Microsoft Renewal
• Last year, we held Microsoft to Year 1
pricing with the release of the Student
Option.
• This year, we have four options to review
for additional value and cost-savings
– E3 or E4 uplifts to O365
– MDOP
– Azure
– Price Freeze, at Year 1 or Year 2 pricing
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Microsoft Renewal: E3/E4
• Currently, OSU has E2 options on O365
• E3 would provide upgrades like:
– Legal Hold, Business Calendar, Online Meetings,
Discovery, Enterprise Yammer, etc.
• E4 would provide Plus CALs
– Essentially, PBX integration
• Because OSU hosts Exchange on-site, there
are few benefits for us
– The IUC might see many more benefits, though.
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Microsoft Renewal: MDOP
• MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization
Pack) includes several products:
– Virtualization Products:
• Application Virtualization (App-V)
• User Experience Virtualization (UE-V)
• Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V)
– Management Products
• Advanced Group Policy Mangement (AGPM)
• BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM)
– Restore Products
• Diagnostics and Recovery Tool (DaRT)
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Microsoft Renewal: MDOP
• App-V, MBAM, and DaRT are the big
interests we’ve heard on campus
– App-V would allow you to virtualize
applications without VMWare products
– MBAM allows for management of BitLocker
on a level that would likely reduce a lot of
headaches and help us move beyond tactical
on this encryption technology
– DaRT is great for help desks and can even fix
machines that can’t boot properly
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Microsoft Renewal: MDOP
• MDOP has a lot of value to OSU
– 15,000 devices have been reported by
interested colleges already
– On an FTE basis, it is not expensive and
might be an easy win
• MDOP does not have easily recognizable
value to the end-user, however
• Other IUC schools are not as interested as
we are
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Microsoft Renewal: Azure
• Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing
solution
– Microsoft is asking for a small commit from
each school to open up the product for deeply
discounted use
– In combination with a price freeze, this may
be a direction to go.
• Schools are mostly not prepared to make
full use of Azure at this time (or any other
cloud solution.
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Microsoft Renewal: Price
Freeze
• If we can freeze pricing at Year 1 or Year
2, there are some savings:
– Freeze at Year 1: $125k savings
– Freeze at Year 2: $82k savings
• This appears to be a fallback point if the
IUC can’t agree on a product to go after
• Savings don’t add value to the license,
and cost changes on a per FTE basis are
small (about $1/FTE)
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Upcoming Renewals
• PowerTerm Pro
• Parallels
– We have more activations than OCIO was
paid for, working with Parallels on what this
means
• xWin32
• If you are a cost share, we’ll be contacting
you.
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IT and eStores Vendor Expo
• April 15, 2015
• Expanded this year to
include other service
vendors
• Presentation focus
remains on IT
vendors
• Vendor presentations
from:
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Adobe
Advizex
Aruba
CDWG
Cisco
Dell
Juniper
Microsoft
Oracle
Red Hat
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IT and eStores Vendor Expo
• Adobe
– “The Connected
Creative: How to
Leverage Creative Cloud
in a Mobile-First World“
• Rolta Advizex
– “Converged Solutions“
• Aruba
– “Providing Robust,
Reliable, Secure
Network Access for the
Campus”
• CDWG
– “CDWG Cloud 401:
Cloud Survey Results
and the State of Cloud in
Higher Education”
• Cisco
– “Building a Collaborative
Platform”
• Dell
– “Evolution of Data
Center Solutions for
Virtualization and
Storage”
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IT and eStores Vendor Expo
• Juniper
– “Software and
Networking: Juniper
Automation and
Orchestration”
• Microsoft
– “Windows Devices in
Education and Office
365”
• Oracle
– “Cost of Education”
• Red Hat
– “RedHat Infrustructure
Site Subscription FHISS:
REdHat Enterprise
Linux, RedHat
Enterprise Vitualization,
Open Stack, Cloud
Forms, RedHar Storage
Server”
• Uniprint
– “UniPrint's New Online
Ordering System”
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Questions/Comments
• Next meetings
– Mar 31, in TL 165
– April 15, 2015 – Second Annual IT Vendor Expo
• For SLS Questions, copy software@osu.edu
with any correspondence
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