Welcome. Bolder IT Fall Town Hall September 27, 2017

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1 Welcome Bolder IT Fall Town Hall September 27, 2017

2 Agenda Spartan 365: Spartan Drive, Spartan Skype, and More Rob McCurdy Computing Power of AWS and Azure Mike Ezzo Analytics and Data Solutions Yesim Askin 2

3 Spartan 365

4 What is Spartan 365? A suite of familiar Microsoft Office tools configured for the MSU community User-friendly features Integrated environment Use on the go across multiple devices Modernized, Robust, and Secure 4

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6 Spartan Mail A contemporary and calendaring solution Available for both Mac and PC on desktop, laptop, and mobile devices Intuitive web interface Features MSU Mail Protection Over 115,000 Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, and Retirees Are Using Spartan Mail 6

7 Spartan Drive Spartan Drive A simple way to store, sync and share your files Secure file storage Share within MSU or outside of MSU Upgraded to 5TB of cloud storage accessible from anywhere Over 2 Million Files and Rapidly Growing 7

8 Spartan Skype Spartan Skype A secure chatting, conferencing, and screen sharing tool Available for faculty, researchers, and staff Presence information (Free/Busy) Secure file transfers Use it across multiple devices Quick And Easy Way To Connect 8

9 How to Get Spartan 365 TOOL OneDrive Skype Spartan Mail ACCESS Fully available. Go to spartan365.msu.edu and sign in. Fully available. For individuals and departments, send request to to get on the implementation list. For More Information, Search Spartan 365 on msu.edu 9

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12 Why Researchers like Cloud Fast Provisioning Run experiments, not servers Globally Accessible Share and collaborate Scalable Elastic Illusion of infinite resources Scale up and down at any time Low Cost Pay by the hour 1k servers x 1 hour = 1 server x 1k hours Security Secure terms of service Ideal for short term projects and prototyping 12

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14 Advantages of MSU IT Offering Discounts Flexible Invoicing Favorable Contract Terms FERPA Terms HIPAA Terms Advanced Technical Support Available Access to Secure Government Cloud

15 Uses to Date Currently 14 accounts online 13 AWS 7 new 6 existing accounts transferred to MSU agreement 2 accounts for research 1 Azure (a new offering) Put these discounts and improved terms of service to use for your departments. Transfer an individual plan Start new

16 Future Improvements More Clouds Investigating Google cloud platform May add Heroku/Bluemix based on demand Further Security Enhancements SSO/Shibboleth integration Two-factor authentication Secure tunnel to campus network Managed Offerings Machine images Add additional SME resources

17 How to Request an Account MSU IT Service Desk Request Form Account Assigned Evaluation by Subject Matter Expert (SME) Issue Purchase Order or Provide P-card Information Department Initiates MSU IT Initiates

18 Analytics & Data Solutions

19 Analytics and Data Solutions Learn how analytics and data solutions can be leveraged to strategize, inform decisions, and plan new services for putting university data to work for you. Data Management Data Stewardship Data Warehouse Data Analytics Business Intelligence and Analytics Data Science SPEED LIMIT 30 ONE WAY REST AREA Yesim Askin, PhD

20 Analytics and Data Solutions VISION Act as a data strategist, steward for improving data quality, evangelist for data sharing, and technologist of data management and data analytics products. MISSION Organize and implement technological activities for MSU s vision of data managed as an asset and data-driven decision making. Improve links between siloed databases and data stores; making information/data easier to find online, making it easier for analysts and policy makers to quickly access and transform data into new formats and knowledge.

21 Data Management - Data Stewardship Manages the university s data as an institutional asset. Objective: Provide reliable, useful, and secure data of high quality. This is achieved through the integration of data management principles and best practices into the data life cycle from creation and collection to archiving and destruction. Source Systems Data Cleansing Data Profiling MDM Hub What this means for you? Profile the data Cleanse the data Help provide definitions for the data Catalog the definitions Audit the data Photo: 21

22 Data Management - Data Warehouse Objective: Provides technology and services used in the transporting of data and a central data repository. The Enterprise Data Warehouse houses the Student Success Data Hub along with MSUEDW and MSUDIM. ETL Process Enterprise Data Warehouse Student Success Data Hub Data Lake What this means for you? Model the data Store the data/build data warehouse Move/transform your data Control/give access to the data Provide the data Photo: 22

23 Data Analytics BI & Analytics Objective: Provides technology and services to promote proactive, data-driven decision making. This includes providing enterprise reporting, analytic, and visualization tools. Self Service Analytics Enterprise Reporting What this means for you? Provide reporting tools. Develop reports/models. Educate report developers Assist in dashboard, analytics, and visualization tools. Photo: 23

24 Data Analytics Data Science Objective: Provide statistical and predictive analytics capabilities at the enterprise level to support effective decisions. This includes management and development of tools that increase data science capabilities for the institution. Big Data Statistical Analysis Interactive Applications Prescriptive Analytics What this means for you? Help store unstructured data Build/assist in predictive analytics models Joint projects for sentiment analysis, location based analytics, Hadoop, advanced analytics Provide tools for conducting statistical and predictive analysis Photo: 24

25 It Starts with a Question I am having my students complete an essay to measure satisfaction levels. Can I get assistance with sentiment analysis? I need to get insights from my data. Can you help with data storage, data movement and predictive models? I need someone to help me measure the quality of my data. Can you help? I am looking to store some department-specific data for reporting purposes. Does ADS do this? I need to start a Data Science practice. What tools are there for my department to use? I need to figure out all the faculty names and contact information that teach in a certain building. Who can help? I need to use a reporting tool for visualization. Can I use an enterprise tool or do I need to purchase one? My unit needs to do custom dashboards for administrative purposes. Who should I contact? 25

26 About Us FY 2017 Major Projects Student Success Data Hub Health Team Reporting Cognos Analytics Upgrade Confidential Data Remediation Master Data Management CABS Unstructured Data Projects (26,251 hours) Break-Fix (1,922 hours) Operations (16,095 hours) 26

27 ADS Priorities Provide self service analytics for everyone and democratize access to analytics tools across the university. Data Science Analytics as a service. Enable Prescriptive Analytics development across campus. Build MSU Data Lake Data as a service. Implement Data Stewardship processes, policies, and procedures using data governance tools. 27

28 Contact Information Yesim Askin Chief Data Officer Phone: (517) Stephanie Dombroski BI, reporting, analytics, and data science requests/questions. Phone: (517) Evelyn Griffith Data quality, cleansing, data warehouse, data access requests and questions. Phone: (517) Search analytics at tech.msu.edu 28

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