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GOALS FOR 2015 IT Governance Making strategic IT decisions – Three information technology (IT) governance boards guide strategic decisions about IT invest- ments, priorities and resources. The three boards, comprised of representatives from UW academic and administrative units, are focused on making the right strategic choices, directing limited resources to the highest priorities, and ensuring transparency. The IT Strategy Board advises on IT strategy, overall resource allocation and oversight of major projects; the IT Service Investment Board conducts an annual review of the Technology Recharge Fee and prioritizes UW-IT projects; and the IT Service Management Board identifies UW-IT services to enhance or retire. Modernize Information and Business Systems • Continue to support the UW's HR/Payroll Modernization initiative as it moves into its next phase—configuring the new Workday HR/Payroll system specifically to the UW's needs. • Help units transition to the new Workday HR/Payroll system through the HR/Payroll Intersections project, a companion effort to HR/Payroll Modernization, led by UW-IT. • Explore the feasibility of modernizing the UW's financial systems by working with stakeholders to complete a strategy and readiness assessment, identifying when and how to move forward after HR/Payroll Modernization is complete. • Streamline the procure-to-pay process and increase efficiencies by completing implementation of Ariba e-procure- ment to provide one tool for supplier solicitation, contract management, requisitioning, invoicing and receiving of goods and services. Retire PAS procurement. • Continue to go paperless by working with UW Facilities to explore replacing its legacy document management system with the new Enterprise Document Management System and by creating paperless workflows. Reduce Enterprise Risk • Enhance protection against network attacks and threats by evaluating and employing a new, scalable Intrusion Prevention System to further safeguard UW's increasing data traffic against network-based threats. • Ensure UW's critical business processes can be restored quickly from remote data centers following a major disrup- tion, as part of a five-year geographic redundancy effort. Better IT Management • Redesign UW-IT's Service Catalog into a dynamic, interac- tive resource for customers to order or change a service, report an incident and more. • Deliver better service by implementing UW Connect, a service management tool that provides a unified, automated system for accessing IT services, help and resources. Partner with the Foster School of Business as a first step in offering UW Connect to other units. • Better understand IT investment by adopting tech- nology business management tools and approaches to manage service costs, quality and value, and to develop metrics, improve transparency and prioritize service investments. • Continue to engage the UW community in guiding IT strategies, service offerings and investment priorities at UW through three IT governance boards: IT Strategy Board, IT Service Investment Board and IT Service Management Board. 5 6 7 Under its five-year strategic plan, UW-IT is pursuing seven strategic goals to leverage current and emerging technologies to support the work of the University. Here's just some of what's ahead in 2015. U W- I T 2 0 1 4 A N N U A L R E P O R T 1 1