Architecture/Infrastructure Advisory Committee (AIAC)
IT Architecture is the logic for organizing data, applications, and infrastructure, captured in a set of policies, relationships, and technical choices to achieve desired business and technical standardization and integrations. IT Infrastructure is the foundation of planned IT capability (both technical and human) available throughout the business as shared and reliable services and used by multiple applications. In the typical enterprise, infrastructure accounts for about 55 percent of the total IT investment. The AIAC often includes telecommunications, network services, large scale computing (servers), management of shared customer databases, research and development, enterprise internet, and more.
Purpose
Provide leadership on information technology architecture and infrastructure with a goal of closely integrated technology solutions within stable and robust IT environments
Meets : Monthly
Members
Permanent Members:
- OIT AVP for IT Infrastructure Services (Chair)
- OIT Director for Enterprise Operations and Systems
- OIT Director for Network Services
- OIT Information Security Officer
- OIT Director for ARDC Facilities
- OIT Director for Client Services
- OIT Director for Enterprise Information Services
Appointed Members (minimum of two years)
- Library technical manager
- Research technical manager
- Distance Education technical manager
- Academic department technical manager, to be determined by Dean’s Council
- Business Affairs technical manager
Non-Voting
- OIT Senior Project Manager (as needed)
- Chairs from Communities of Practice, as needed
Roles
Make recommendations to IT Leadership related to technical guidelines and standards used to achieve a desired level of business/academic and technical integrations and standardization as well as shared IT services used by multiple systems and applications, providing a foundation for enterprise-wide IT capabilities. Collect input from university technical community related to architecture and infrastructure services that best serve the global technology needs of the University.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain a Committee Charter
- Each Advisory Committee chair will submit a report about its activities and issues to the ITGC
- Present university-wide architecture/infrastructure IT recommendations to IT Leadership
- Recommend integration standards as well as other architecture/infrastructure standards
- Recommend shared IT services as foundations for enterprise-wide applications and capabilities
Authority
Make recommendations on IT Architecture/Infrastructure topics to IT Leadership.
Management of Disputes
If topics should arise that cannot be resolved within the AIAC organization, the topic will be elevated to the CIO who will work towards resolution.