IT Update News from 07/2022

IT’s forthcoming strategic plan and QA testing maturity – IT Leadership Team meeting recap

July 14, 2022

The IT Leadership Team met on June 29 and discussed the following topics:

IT strategic panning

John kicked off the discussion by thanking the team for everything they’ve achieved in their last five-year strategic plan (2018-2022). With those successes underway, it is time to reset and...

Valimail protection for bulk yale.edu email

July 14, 2022
Summary On Monday, August 15, 2022, Yale will enable services offered by Valimail to improve mail security, reduce spam, and ensure mail delivery for legitimate Yale mail...

MIM process changes coming Friday, July 29

July 14, 2022

The IT Service Management team will introduce newly designed Problem Management and Major Incident Processes on Friday July 29.

The newly designed processes will streamline and automate many of the cumbersome manual tasks associated with the Major Incident Process and introduce the...

IT Academy upcoming training and events

July 14, 2022

Hosted by the IT Staff Development team, Yale’s IT Academy consists of a robust speaker series , recommended online training offerings ,...

Basecamp to be discontinued at Yale on Monday, September 1, 2022

July 14, 2022
Summary

Basecamp will be discontinued as an ITS service offering on Monday, September 1 . Basecamp has seen declining usage at Yale, and its administrative tooling has...

New Graduate Student Funding Process Goes Live on Tuesday, July 19

July 14, 2022

On Tuesday, July 19, at 9:00 a.m., Yale will transition to the new Graduate Student Funding (GSF) process using Banner, Workday, and a Data Mart for Graduate School payment transaction execution and Power BI for reporting. Training is underway. Impacted stakeholders will receive further...

July 2022 ITS staff movement, anniversaries, and new hires

July 14, 2022

Congratulations to IT staff who recently celebrated a milestone, moved to a new role, or joined our organization in June. Welcome or congratulate your colleagues using Ycards , Yale’s digital greeting...

IT Update - Basecamp service discontinued as of Thursday, September 1, 2022

July 13, 2022
Summary

Basecamp will be discontinued as an ITS service offering on Thursday, September 1 . Basecamp has seen declining usage at Yale, and its administrative tooling...

New Graduate Student Funding process goes live on Tuesday, July 19

July 13, 2022

On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 9:00 AM , Yale will transition to the new Graduate Student Funding (GSF) process using Banner, Workday, and a data mart for graduate school payment transaction execution. The new system uses Power BI for reporting. Training is underway. Impacted...

Dropbox individual cloud storage platform now available to Yale departments

July 13, 2022

Dropbox is an individual cloud storage platform now available to departments as a subscription service through ITS. Dropbox is approved for low-risk data and allows collaboration between those at Yale and external collaborators using the Dropbox platform.

The Dropbox subscription...