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Cloud services are here to stay. How can you illuminate institutional concerns,and empower faculty/staff/researchers to purchase and use cloud services
wisely? How can you break through the fog of vendor claims? Learn how theUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Cloud Services Advisory Board is
helping UWM weather the cloud-based services storm.
Cloud Services Advisory Board
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• Risk Management• Inormation Security• Business Analytics
• Legal• Communications• Audit
• Sotware AssetManagement
• Purchasing
• Finance &
Administrative
Aairs
• Academic Aairs • University
Communications &
Relations
• Student Aairs
• Educate aculty, researchers and sta about cloud services• Empower them to make wise purchase and use decisions
• Develop best practices to advise and enable appropriate procurement and use ocloud-based services
• Promote the most eective use o cloud-based business services, while ensuring compliance withlegal, technical and risk-management guidelines
• Identiy legal, technical, inormation security, and privacy issues; provide recommendations to resolveissues within UWM’s scope o mission and appropriate risk guidelines
• Develop methods to communicate contract issues, current trends and potential areas o concern orselection, implementation and support o cloud services
• Establish and communicate “best practices” to manage procurements, and to monitor and track perormance o cloud-based contracts
• Publish a set o inormational “reerence materials” on concepts related to cloud-based services inorder to inorm decision-making at all levels o the University
• Promote opportunities to clariy and re-align organizational practices across the UWM community toenable more consistent procurement, implementation and ongoing support
• SECURITY & PRIVACY o inormation
• RELIABILITY o access & CONTROL o data/inrastructure
• COMPLIANCE with ederal & state requirements
• PORTABILITY & difculty movingdata rom one cloud service to another
• COST & inability to negotiate enterprise-widecontracts with avorable terms
• SUPPLIERS fnancial viability & ability to unctionas a going concern
EDUCATIONAL/OUTREACH
• UWM stakeholders• UW System stakeholders• Peer engagement• MHEC Conerence• 2013 EDUCAUSE Conerence• Website*
TRANSACTIONAL
• Purchasing checklist• Usage/needs survey*• Approved vendor list*
GOVERNANCE
• Board charter• Sponsorship• Policy analysis*
ADMINISTRATIVE
• Membership• Budget• Progress tracking
(*In progress)