IST Data Services FY11 Goals
The following represents a core set of themes, principles and goals for IST, Data Services and the units within Data Services.
Context: IST Focus Areas
IST areas of focus
Areas of focus represent key thematic elements around which IST will organize activities. Strategic directions and activities will be evaluated within the context of these key areas.
- Management
- Efficiency
- Engagement
- Partnership
IST strategic directions/activities
M - Good management
Ensure the success of each person within the organization; exercise our responsibility and opportunity to affect positive change within the organization.
Examples
- Align the skills of our professional staff with our strategic directions.
- Match compensation to broader equity considerations.
- Apply sound financial practices to business operations.
- Manage services against multiple time scales (short term, long term).
- Invest in and apply basic project management.
- Leverage accessible and practical portions of existing frameworks (eg. ITIL).
- Benchmark internal service cost against external offering.
- Invest only where we bring the highest value.
- Appropriately secure digital assets.
- Identify and acknowledge positive actions.
FY11 IST Goals
- Pursue multiyear budgeting.
- Complete service portfolio.
- Generate roadmaps for each service.
- ITIL Certifications
Y - Efficiency
Improve organizational value (benefit/cost), productivity and alignment based on institutional direction; Drive services to appropriate scale or eliminate niche products.
Examples
- Increase impact (broader demographic, higher dollar value).
- Increase standardization (common solutions/components).
- Scale solutions.
- Prune niche solutions.
- Leverage external providers/resources (eg. services, labor, etc).
- Simplify and rationalize processes.
- Control development, operating and support costs.
- Fully support campus Operational Excellence initiative.
FY11 IST Goals
- Operational Excellence
E - Engagement
Provide a positive customer experience from beginning to end; ensure that the portfolio of services is relevant, cohesive and rational to our community.
Examples
- Focus on the customer perspective.
- Promote financial transparency.
- Differentiate internal products.
- Meet all delivery commitments (scope, schedule, resources).
- Make decisions based on community considerations.
- Maximize positive results; minimize negative impacts.
- Production outages receive highest priority.
FY11 IST Goals
- Communications initiatives
- Public forums
- Cross area process streamlining
P - Partnership
Provide IT knowledge and direction so that the community can be successful in pursuit of the university mission of research, teaching and service; IST will be generous with their time and knowledge.
Examples
- Advance scholarship through technology.
- Cultivate data as a campus asset.
- Foster community and collaboration.
- Support open source initiatives.
- Support IT at the campus and system level.
- Work with other IT Groups to provide services.
- Engage campus technology thought leaders.
FY11 IST Goals
- Emphasize solutions from available components
- Engage functional partners at multiple levels
- Structure services as elements of department plans
FY11 Goals for Data Services
M - Good management
- Improve and implement new tools and processes for DS project prioritization, staff assignments, tracking and skills planning so that each staff member has clear, high-value assignments across multiple projects.
- With Application Services, develop shared development infrastructure, including common stacks, shared build and middleware support staff.
- Through IST’s DCAT group, implement cross-group security projects: 2-factor authentication and logging standards and secure shipping.
Y- Efficiency
- Extend new database change control access process to Database Services customers.
- Develop and implement the new SQL Server 2008 database service for campus customers. Deliver more features, improve the infrastructure and security and maintain costs.
- Release CollectionSpace 1.0 and deploy it at 3 campus museums as part of the first phase of campus and national deployments.
- Deliver a series of new content management platform and consulting services to campus in coordination with the campus’s Operational Excellence project.
E - Engagement
- Install and configure OBIEE and BI Apps for Procurement to support business intelligence analysis of procurement data for the campus. Work with sponsors to scope deliverables for this fiscal year and then successfully implement.
- Install and configure Hyperion Planning so that campus units can better forecast and manage their budgets. Work with sponsors to scope deliverables for this fiscal year and then successfully implement.
- Develop Phase 1 Bamboo Scholarly Work Spaces for the Arts and Humanities and the supporting shared infrastructure for scholarly services and collections.
P – Partnership
- Develop a framework for a future IST / academic co-facilitated e-research center. Help campus and IST staff understand and be able to participate in the development of shared, data-driven e-research technologies.
- Develop a multi-campus (including multi-UC) foundation to support the on-going development and support of CollectionSpace. Align this with other higher education open source consortia.
Unit Goals: Data Repository Management
Content Management
Goals |
Responsible |
Completion |
IST Focus Areas |
Deliver a series of new content management platform and consulting services to campus in coordination with the campus’s Operational Excellence project. |
Patrick M. |
June 2011 |
Y (Efficiency) |
Develop and pilot easy-to-use scholarly work spaces for the Arts and Humanities and the supporting shared infrastructure for scholarly services and collections. (Bamboo) |
Noah W. |
June 2011 |
E (Engagement) |
Informatics
Goals |
Responsible |
Completion |
IST Focus Areas |
Release CollectionSpace 1.0 and deploy it at 4 campus museums as part of the first phase of campus and national deployments.
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Chris H. |
June 2011 |
Y (Efficiency) |
Service and deployment models developed for CollectionSpace delivered to the campus community (and potentially beyond). |
Chris H. |
Jan 2010 |
Y (Efficiency) |
Engage the broader community of campus stakeholders to form the governance structures needed for sustainable collections management and collections-based |
Chris H. |
June 2011 |
E (Engagement) |
Platform consolidation: Transition systems to a more robust infrastructure platform and take advantage of system administration and database administration skills in |
Chris H. |
June 2011 |
Y (Efficiency) |
Develop team through training, mentoring, and additional resources to support strategic goal related to CollectionSpace deployments and ongoing support |
Chris H. |
June 2011 |
M (Management) |
Tools & Services Registries
Goals |
Responsible |
Completion |
IST Focus Areas |
Develop a UC Berkeley Tools and Services Registry for use by campus to describe, rate and discuss tools and services |
Rich M. |
June 2010 |
P (Partnership) |
Develop a humanist friendly Tools and Services Registry prototype that can be accessed from Work Spaces (Bamboo) |
Rich M. |
June 2010 |
E (Engagement) |
Program Management
Goals |
Responsible |
Completion |
IST Focus Areas |
Closure of Bamboo Planning Project including publication of multiple documents to the funder and the community |
Rich M. |
Dec 2010 |
P (Partnership) |
Improve and implement new tools and processes for DS project prioritization, staff assignments, tracking and skills planning so that each staff member has |
Patrick M. |
Dec 2010 |
M (Management) |
Unit Goals: Architecture and Development
Goals |
Responsible |
Completion |
IST Focus Areas |
Bamboo (BSP) development, Coordinate consortial development efforts, complete core deliverables. |
PatrickS, |
Mar 31, 2012 |
E (Engagement) |
CSpace 2.0 development. Coordinate consortial development efforts, deliver new features. |
PatrickS |
Nov 30, 2012 |
P (Partnership) |
CSpace deployments and Foundation work, including deployment of SaaS model here at UCB, transitioning off legacy systems onto new platform, working with campus |
ChrisM, |
Rolling projects |
Y (Efficiency) |
Shared development infrastructure, including common stacks, shared build and middleware support staff. Goal is to model standards and shared resources with AS. |
PatrickS, SteveM |
Ongoing |
M (Management) |
Unit Goals: Enterprise Data Warehouse and Database Services
Enterprise Data Warehouse Services
Goals |
Responsible |
Completion |
IST Focus Areas |
APPSCAN run process to identify potential security holes. |
Michael Leung |
October 2010 |
Y (Efficiency) |
Automate BAIRS monitoring – develop scripts to replicates customer submitted reports to help identify service problems. |
Michael Leung |
March 2011 |
Y (Efficiency) |
BFS Archive – move BFS 8.8 tables off mainframe to oracle database |
Cheryl Kojina |
January 2011 |
E (Engagement) |
BI Apps/OBIEE - Deliver new Procurement data, reports and dashboards in support of OE initiatives. |
Boshin Lin, |
March 2011 |
P (Partnership) |
EDW ETL production support (Backend) - Maintain and provide minor enhancements to the production EDW service. |
Boshin Lin |
Ongoing |
E (Engagement) |
Hyperion IR upgrade – install latest supported version of reporting software, providing support of latest Browsers and meeting Campus minimum security standards. |
Janet Chin |
March 2011 |
E (Engagement) |
Budget Planning tool - Hyperion Planning - install new campus budgeting tool. |
Janet Chin, |
March 2011 |
P (Partnership) |
DS-EDW Informatica Upgrade - install latest supported version of ETL software. |
Boshin Lin |
Dec 2010 |
E (Engagement) |
BAIRS Reporting production support (Frontend) – Maintain BAIRS service providing minor prioritized reporting enhancements. |
Janet Chin |
Ongoing |
E (Engagement) |
Student Data Warehouse – add new student data to the EDW providing campus community analytical capabilities related to applicant, degree, enrollment |
Janet Chin |
Feb 2011 |
P (Partnership) |
EDW PPS conversions – replace mainframe Cobol programs with Informatica ETLs. |
Cheryl Kojina |
June 2011 |
Y (Efficiency) |
Load HCM data into the campus enterprise Person party model. |
Radha Karichedu |
June 2011 |
E (Engagement) |
Begin building business rules for the merging of HCM, Student and Donor person party data. |
Greg Hamilton |
June 2011 |
E (Engagement) |
Database Services
Goal |
Responsible |
Completion |
IST Focus Areas |
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All DB Services – Analysis of impact to service of changing to silo’s for customers |
Quin Bligh |
December 31, 2011 |
M (Management) |
All DB Services – Clean-up FWSM rules and FWSM conversion |
Kellie Hobbs |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
All DB Services – Create capacity / performance reports for each platform |
Ken Marrs |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
All DB Services – DBA script and configuration control |
Frances Kendall |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
All DB Services – Email abatement |
Frances Kendall |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
All DB Services – Implement bastion host / 2-factor for access to db servers |
Paul Rivers |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
All DB Services – Implement customer change access |
Frances Kendall |
March 31, 2010 |
Y (Efficiency) |
All DB Services – Implement Dataguise inventory/notification |
Paul Rivers |
March 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
All DB Services – Implement log shipping |
Ken Marrs |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
All DB Services – Implement new reduced recharge rates |
Frances Kendall |
August 31, 2010 |
Y (Efficiency) |
All DB Services - Review Standard Customer Implementation for each platform and update documentation |
Frances Kendall |
December 31, 2011 |
M (Management) |
All DB Services – Setup secure website for file transfers |
Paul Rivers |
March 30, 2011 |
M (Management |
All DB Services – Storage forecasting |
Susana Parker |
November 31, 2010 |
M (Management) |
Customer Projects – Advance, Pinnacle, BFS |
Frances Kendall |
June 30, 2011 |
P (Partnership) |
Customer Projects – Disaster recovery site for BFS |
Quin Bligh |
August 31, 2010 |
P (Partnership) |
Customer Projects – Disaster recovery site for KualiReady |
Paul Rivers |
December 31, 2010 |
P (Partnership) |
Customer Projects – Grad Div JAZZEE |
Quin Bligh |
June 30, 2011 |
P (Partnership) |
Customer Projects – Student Data Warehouse & BI Apps |
Quin Bligh |
March 30, 2011 |
P (Partnership) |
DB2 - Decommission DB2 gateway |
Nancy Fan & |
October 31, 2010 |
Y (Efficiency) |
DB2 - Move remaining databases to UCOP |
Nancy Fan |
December 31, 2011 |
Y (Efficiency) |
Open Source & Basic – Complete migration to VMs |
Kellie Hobbs |
October 14, 2010 |
M (Management) |
Open Source & Basic – Upgrade MySQL to 5.1.3.1 and PostgreSQL to 8.3 |
Kellie Hobbs |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
Oracle - Complete 11g Upgrade |
Quin Bligh |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
Oracle – Evaluate and implement more OEM functionality |
Ken Marrs |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
Oracle - Evaluate P-series vs Linux vs Oracle VM for Oracle platform (include ASM in eval) |
Quin Bligh |
October 31, 2010 |
Y (Efficiency) |
Oracle – Evaluate support for APEX |
Quin Bligh |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
Oracle - Implement Datapump |
Quin Bligh |
August 31, 2010 |
M (Management) |
Oracle - Implement response to DSR audit |
Quin Bligh |
December 31, 2010 |
M (Management) |
Oracle – RMAN catalog and cloning databases |
Susana Parker |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
Oracle – Upgrade OEM on new VM |
Ken Marrs |
October 31, 2010 |
M (Management) |
SQL Server – Create 2008 Enterprise Edition install template & upgrade |
Paul Rivers |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
SQL Server – Evaluate and implement new 2008 features |
Paul Rivers |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
SQL Server - Implement dedicated SQL Server ESX cluster |
Paul Rivers |
October 31, 2010 |
M (Management) |
SQL Server – Migrate to locally run SQL Agent jobs |
Paul Rivers |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
SQL Server – Setup SSIS/SSRS service |
Paul Rivers |
June 30, 2011 |
M (Management) |
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