Strategic Pillars

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The Future Vision of Enterprise Technology

Our priorities are to drive scalable growth at ET, enhance digital experiences and operational efficiency, and unify and expand common good services to achieve excellence across the community.

Strategic Pillars for 2025-2026

Infrastructure

Building Strong Foundations for a Digital Campus 

Delivering reliable, scalable, and resilient technology foundations — including networks, data center, cloud, and computing environments — to ensure the university’s digital ecosystem is always available, high-performing, and future-ready. 

Security & Compliance

Safeguarding people, systems, and spaces 

Ensuring the security, management, and integrity of campus endpoints and physical assets, protecting people, systems, and spaces, and enabling a safe and resilient digital and physical environment for the University of Texas at Austin. 
 

Campus Experience

Delivering seamless digital experiences for all Longhorns

Enhancing the daily experience of students, faculty, staff, alumni, families, and partners by providing intuitive, integrated, and accessible digital services that make it easier to learn, work, and connect across the UT community.

Teaching and Learning

Empowering teaching & learning through technology

Partnering with academic leaders to enable cutting-edge teaching methods and learning environments through innovative instructional technologies, digital classrooms, and academic support tools.

ERP Modernization

Transforming with modern systems for a modern university

Transforming the university’s core administrative systems into modern, efficient, and user-centered platforms that streamline processes, improve decision-making, and align with the university’s long-term strategy.

Innovation

Driving purposeful IT discovery for UT

Fostering experimentation, emerging technology adoption, and forward-looking solutions that advance the university’s mission and position UT Austin as a leader in higher education technology.

Research

Advancing discovery through technology

Empowering researchers with advanced computing, data, and collaboration tools to accelerate discovery, enable secure and compliant partnerships, and extend the global impact of UT Austin’s research enterprise. 

Operations

Ensuring efficient, aligned, and accountable operations

Driving organizational alignment and operational excellence by standardizing processes, optimizing resources, and ensuring that technology services are delivered with efficiency, transparency, and accountability.

Data

Leveraging data as a trusted campus asset

Building a trusted, enterprise-wide data ecosystem that supports analytics, governance, and decision-making, while enabling the university community to leverage data as a strategic asset.

Three Pillars of Focus: 2024-2025

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1. Organizational Roadmap

Create an organization that can envision, develop, and support enterprise technology endeavors at scale.

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2. IT Modernization

Vastly enhance the digital lives of all Longhorns, improve operational effectiveness, and support our mission.

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3. Service Delivery Modernization

Bring common good services, practices, and people together to deliver at scale and delight the community.