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     The ISO Mission

The ISO participates with other university, college, division, and departmental IT units to support and serve students, employees, and administrators involved in the various stages of enterprise-wide information technology deployment including:
  • Planning for strategic and tactical IT/IS initiatives and projects
  • Development of IT/IS policies, standards and procedures
  • Management of information resources/IT asset management
  • Analysis of IS requirements
  • Planning IS projects and providing project progress and status reports
  • Specification and acquisition of hardware and software
  • Installation, development, enhancement, maintenance, and on-going administration of software
  • Establishment and administration of development, test, training and production databases and other data stores
  • Integration and implementation of hardware and software systems
  • Administration of security access
  • Scheduling automated processes and monitoring production
  • Performing routine backup and recovery procedures
  • Planning for business contingencies and disaster recovery
  • Provision of on-going user and production support

We constantly seek to advance the effectiveness of the University’s use of information through research into advanced information technologies and their deployment to more fully achieve the University’s primary missions of teaching, research, public service, and technology transfer. We are open to new and improved methods of developing and administering application systems and databases. We welcome questions and criticism. We want to hear from you when you have a question, a complaint, a suggestion, or a complement. We appreciate your business, as well as, your assistance in improving the quality of our services.