About UChicago Founded 1891, John D. Rockefeller Located primarily in Hyde Park in Chicago, but with presence in downtown Chicago, Singapore, Paris, and London ~5,000 Undergraduates ~10,000 Graduates ~14,4000 Alumni ~2,200 Faculty ~12,000 Staff 6 Graduate Professional Schools (Business, Medical, Divinity, Social Science, Law, and Public Policy) 4 Graduate Divisions (Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Humanities) Continuing Education (Graham School) 85 Nobel Laureates (8 current) $472 million in sponsored research awards Affiliations include: Argonne National Laboratory Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory More information can be found at:

Just the Facts Central IT: Networking Services and Information Technologies (NSIT) Separate IT departments for various schools and divisions (including the divisions, Medical Center, Library, and professional schools such as Booth School of Business, Law School, etc.) ~700 IT staff (about half is NSIT) Budget for IT is ~$110 million, ~$70m for NSIT (including recharge fees) NSIT handles centralized networking (voice and data), administrative systems, academic technologies, various middleware components (authn/authz), and other services. More information available at:

Top IT Issues Budget and cost reduction Funding model changes Biological Sciences/Medical Center restructuring Staff retention, development, collaboration Methodologies, processes, tools Integration challenges ITIL and shifting service delivery focus Modernizing old systems Administrative Systems Renewal Disaster recovery, business continuity, emergency preparedness and communications Research and high performance computing New technologies SOA, SAML, ESB, VOIP, virtualization, unified messaging, etc. To open source or not? To outsource or not?