UBIT Top Projects

Learn how UB Information Technology is making sure that our students, faculty and staff have everything they need for success with these recent project highlights.

2022-08 Active IT Top Projects

2022-08 Completed IT Top Projects

2022 projects (Completed / Requested / Active): January (7 / 1 / 18); February (6 / 2 / 18); March (2 / 0 / 18), April (4 /3 / 18), May (4 / 2 / 20), June (6/ 1 / 21), July (1 / 2 / 22) , August (2 / 0 / 20).

Strategic fit: Run 37%, Grow 50%, Transform 13%.

Grow projects are those that incrementally enhance, extend or differentiate existing business capabilities. The focus is on improved performance/efficiency in workflow provided by additional features/functionality.

Transform projects may offer a new service, not offered before and completely transform or innovate business capabilities, technologies employed, the business workflow and/or the culture. These projects provide the largest impact for the financial investment. The focus is on value creation, alignment with overall technology strategy and/or institutional goals.

Run - projects may have mandatory or regulatory requirements, or they may be utility projects required to ”keep the lights on” These projects may be related to life cycle management of hardware or software (end of life, end of support, regular lifecycle patches/upgrades etc.), or they may be an expansion of existing services for capacity or geographically. The focus is on risk to the organization and containing cost.

Zoom image: University Strategic Goals: Deepen our engagement in the regional community: 0; promote a univeristy-wide culture of equity and inclusion: 0; Provide students with transformative, innovative, research-grounded experiences: 29; Achieve greater social impact locally and globally: 6; Provide support structures ensuring faculty and student success: 3

University Strategic Goals: Deepen our engagement in the regional community: 0; promote a univeristy-wide culture of equity and inclusion: 0; Provide students with transformative, innovative, research-grounded experiences: 29; Achieve greater social impact locally and globally: 6; Provide support structures ensuring faculty and student success: 3.

University Goals >

Zoom image: VP Sponsor Area (In Progress / Requested / Ideas): Academic Affairs (8 / 2 / 14), Enrollment Management (2 / 1 / 2), Finance and Administration: (14 / 3 / 9), Student Life (1 / 0 /0), University Communications (3 / 1 /6), UBIT (18 / 3 /11), Research and Development (2 / 0 / 1).

VP Sponsor Area (In Progress / Requested / Ideas): Academic Affairs (8 / 2 / 14), Enrollment Management (2 / 1 / 2), Finance and Administration: (14 / 3 / 9), Student Life (1 / 0 /0), University Communications (3 / 1 /6), UBIT (18 / 3 /11), Research and Development (2 / 0 / 1).

*This chart represents total number of separate projects. However, this chart is not representing the total effort or staffing hours of IT resources that are being dedicated to each VP Sponsor Area.

Featured projects

MS 365

UB is consolidating UB’s email and cloud storage with Microsoft 365, making collaboration simpler by providing everyone access to the same tools.

View schedules and learn more about Microsoft 365 project>

Enhanced Internet Protections

UB is making changes that will strengthen security while providing flexibility to prevent disruption of necessary university functions, including research.

View schedule and learn more about Internet Protections >

Constituent Relationship Manager (CRM)

A CRM combines data from different areas to provide a holistic view, allowing UB to streamline and target communications across campus to faculty, staff, students or individuals outside of UB.

Wireless Technology Refresh

UBIT staff are replacing existing Wireless Access Points with top of the line WIFI 6e access points. WIFI 6e will provide faster and more efficient communication in both high density and high bandwidth applications.

View schedule and learn more about Wireless Technology Refresh >

UBIT Top Projects