Is There a Mobile App For That?

presented by: Christopher Akin, Associate Director, Web Services USF Information Technology www.usf.edu/ITTampa Bay Technology Leadership AssociationAugust 8, 2013

About USF

• A high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success

• Serves more than 47,000 students• Ranked 50th in the nation for research

expenditures, among all U.S. universities, public or private, for FY2010.

• Annual budget of $1.5 billion and an annual economic impact of $3.7 billion

About USF Information Technology

• USF IT Strategic Plan’s 8 Goals:1: Student Success 2: Customer Service 3: Research 4: Administrative Effectiveness 5: Communication Strategy 6: IT Infrastructure 7: Governance and Funding 8: Employee Recruiting, Retention & Development

Web Services – Goal #5

Communication is a key component in the successful delivery of technology solutions and services...• Projects supporting goal #5:– Content Management System– Portal and Ecommerce– Mobile Application

iUSF – USF’s Enterprise Mobile App

• Needs assessment– Leadership mandate– History lesson

• Feedback from students– BullMarket– Working w/interns for design and branding concepts

• Partnership with AT&T– Reviewed in-house technical abilities– No app development experience– “write once” publish to all devices – to stay as vendor

agnostic as possible

iUSF – Lessons Learned

• Know your campus devices – iPhone, Droid, and to a lesser degree: Blackberry

• Publishing to the various stores – Timelines– Different requirements– Marketing blurbs– Apple submission process

• User issues– Critical reviews– Taking criticism and improving the product

What’s next for iUSF?

• Student Advisory Committee• Added functionality• Technology upgrade

Questions?

• For more information:– Visit www.usf.edu/IT – Download iUSF!– Like us on Facebook - https://

www.facebook.com/it.usf– HEEMAC – www.usf.edu/heemac

• Contact info: – Christopher Akin cakin@usf.edu 813-974-0898