UCISA Software Procurement Sub-Group (UCISA-SPG) Minutes of Meeting held at University of Edinburgh 17 th and 18 th June 2014 Attendees: Tina Pask, Chair (ULCC), Mark Allinson, Vice Chair (Edge Hill University), Howard Moody (Eduserv), Sue Preston, Deputy Chair (University of Leicester), Louise Walford (University of Winchester), Frances Provan (University of Edinburgh), Dave Hartis (University of Sunderland) and Martin Austin (Cardiff University) Denoted as TP, MAl, HM, SP LW, FP, DH and MAu respectively. Apologies: David Buckley (University of Manchester) MINUTES AND ACTION POINTS ACTION Adobe Review – 17 th June Video call with Bengta Jordan (BJ) Adobe Education Account Director EMEA. Announcements tomorrow (June 18 th ) Creative Cloud update: http://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud.html?sdid=KLYCK?sdid=KLYCK E-mail and presentation to follow. Buying guide available on Adobe’s website : http://www.adobe.com/uk/volume- licensing/education.edu.html Presentation to be sent over covering which programme to use to purchase different products. Official statement on technical issues behind recent Adobe CC/LWS outage. BJ to investigate life time of perpetual licences Turnitin Review – 17 th June Peter Tinson (UCISA Executive Secretary) has been in direct contact with Turnitin and been reporting to UCISA directors’ list. TP has copies of correspondence and will circulate to group but it’s not for forwarding outside the institutions Supplier Engagement – 17 th June The group discussed a plan for future supplier engagement, it was agreed that the group would continue to meet with Microsoft and Adobe at least once a year, BJ BJ to provide link BJ BJ TP