SITACom

Strategic Information Technology Advisory Committee

Provide a platform to address major technology strategies and priorities with campus-wide implications and to ensure these strategies align with the University’s strategic mission, vision, goals, and user needs. The advisory committee provides a mechanism for technology assets within academic, administrative and infrastructure areas to be researched, proposed, reviewed, endorsed, supported, implemented, and communicated. The SITACom also assures that appropriate business processes related to technology are in place. The SITACom makes recommendations to executive leadership for action.

Function

Set high-level priorities and facilitate the resolution of competing demands for IT resources.
Support compliance with federal, state, and university requirements/policies for information technology.
Support the protection of the University's digital assets through data governance strategies in conjunction with the data governance committee.
Monitor and advise on the enterprise applications roadmap for technical architecture.
Communicate IT Governance work and support evolving technology services and solutions.
Advocate for the adoption of common IT solutions and services.
Use selected systems as designed, implementing modern and best practices wherever possible, designing for the rule, not the exception.
Oversee and aid in the prioritization of capital IT project budgets.

The committee promotes aligning IT strategies with University priorities, risk management, value delivery, performance measures, and resource management. The committee does not manage IT departmental operating budgets, IT hiring and appointments or departmental IT priority setting.

Goals

Examine project portfolio management to create a holistic view of requests, balance institutional needs, and prioritize projects based on the institutional strategic plan.
Ensure strategic use of technology resources and account for total cost of ownership for new services.
Ensure security, compliance, and infrastructure alignment.
Assist in timeline development for change impacting users.
Help projects achieve results by strengthening business cases, alignment, and collaborations that might be needed for success.
Provide shared governance involvement in technology financial decisions affecting campus and advocate for campus technology funding needs.
Provide advice on cost structures. Investigate cost sharing for services or projects and/or chargeback models.
Support and address data strategy, stewardship, shared governance and data management goals established by the data governance committee.
Determine preference for buy/build and cloud/on-premise solutions, as well as standard/customized applications, in alignment with strategic plan.
Support infrastructure and security standards (i.e., data center standards, federated identity management for application access, security standards, etc.).
Support security and compliance considerations in technology services and solutions. Include risk management and compliance discussions to help guide IT risk management.

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