[Editors] IS&T Departmental Consulting and Applications Development

[Elizabeth Thomson]

I am forwarding this to Editors' Club folks at the request of Jerry 
Grochow, VP for information services and technology.

Cheers!

Elizabeth

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Elizabeth A. Thomson
Assistant Director, Science & Engineering News
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News Office, Room 11-400
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)
<thomson at mit.edu>

<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jerry Grochow [mailto:jgrochow at MIT.EDU]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:29 PM
>To: AAC-AOQuery at mit.edu; ITPartners at mit.edu; IT-Lead at mit.edu; 
>MacPartners at mit.edu; FMUG at mit.edu; ed-tech at mit.edu; 
>ugadmins at mit.edu; gradadmins at mit.edu; ugofficers at mit.edu; 
>infogroup at mit.edu; editors at mit.edu
>Cc: ITAG at mit.edu; IS&T at mit.edu; DDADP at mit.edu
>Subject: IS&T Departmental Consulting and Applications Development
>
>I am pleased to report that, based on the recommendations of the
>inter-departmental committee working on the Departmental Database
>Applications Project (DDADP), IS&T will be piloting new services for
>departments, labs, and centers engaged in database application development.
>The IS&T Web Communication Services (WCS) group will be renamed and
>expanded, and begin pilot projects this fall as the IS&T Departmental
>Consulting and Applications Development (DCAD) group.  DCAD will offer a
>wide array of services including consulting, development, and facilitating
>use of outside service providers and other IS&T services such as the
>Usability Lab.  Jeff Reed will lead DCAD, ensuring the same high-level of
>service you have received under his management of WCS.
>
>Given community interest in this new service as expressed in the DDADP
>study, we want to make sure that our initial offerings and pricing satisfy
>community needs.  We will depend on input from the DDADP project team (whose
>members have graciously agreed to serve as an initial advisory committee) to
>select pilot projects as we build a scaleable and robust service.  We will
>also be working with the Information Technology Architecture Group (ITAG) to
>help ensure that we implement appropriate processes and service models.
>
>I want to thank the members of the DDADP team for their excellent work over
>the past several months.  Under the leadership of Bil Huxley of IS&T, the
>team consisted of:
>Bill Barrasso, IS&T Client Support Services
>Cecilia Marra, DUE Academic Services
>Mike Sherman, Dept. of Facilities
>Craig Thomas, Libraries
>Dave Woodruff, Laboratory for Nuclear Science
>
>The DDADP team obtained input via a widely distributed web-based survey and
>through focus group meetings with community members.  The scope of the
>team's work encompassed community interest in products such as FileMaker,
>Access, and PHP/MySQL.  The team then developed recommendations about
>processes and support activities for a new service offering. The DDADP final
>report is available at:
>http://web.mit.edu/ist/org/admincomputing/notebooks/DDADP/
>
>As we move forward with the implementation of this new service, please
>provide your comments and suggestions to Jeff Reed or to any DDADP team
>member.  We look forward to expanding DCAD's pilot efforts based on your
>input and demand for its services.
>
>Jerry Grochow
>
>_______________________________________________
>Jerrold M. Grochow, Ph.D.
>Vice President for Information Services and Technology
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>Room 10-219
>Cambridge, MA 02139
>617-253-3103
>jgrochow at mit.edu


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