Current Projects

• Current Phase: Execution Phase
• Project End Date: 31/12/2025

Trinity has an ambitious program to enhance the engagement and enablement of all of the college community through a progressive digitalization of university services and the enhancement of core university systems. The Digital Trinity Infrastructure (DTI) Programme is a multi-million Euro enabling programme within Digital Trinity. DTI consists of four projects:

• DTI2: Future Hosting: Redesign of the College’s on-premises hosting infrastructure including compute, storage, network, backup, and disaster recovery services to include Azure cloud services.
• DTI3: NextGen Network: Replacement of the active wire data network in Trinity (border, core, distribution). Redesign of network and implementation of additional security features to mitigate the risk of cyberattack.
• NextGen Wi-Fi: Planning (only) for a Wi-Fi replacement to provide ubiquitous Wi-Fi 6E services across the entire university estate.
• DTI4: Phase 1: Identity Management: In place upgrade of the College’s central identity management service. Design of a new future-proofed identity service to integrate with Azure Identity management services.
• DTI5 Replacement (upgrade) Network Admission Control (NAC) system for students. An alternative solution to NAC will be considered as part of the NGN redesign work.

• Current Phase: Execution Phase
• Project End Date: 30/03/2023

The Trinity website is the university's main communications and marketing platform, promoting Trinity to a global audience. The objective of the Web Transformation Project is to eliminate risk to the website and deliver a robust, scalable, and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for the university. This in turn will improve and enhance the Trinity website with regard to security and compliance. It will ensure brand consistency through the use of consistent web templates and provide all college web authors with quick and easy publishing. It will also enable website functionality such as data capture, repurposing content, and personalisation which is vital in supporting Trinity's key objectives for student recruitment, research, and rankings.

• Current Phase: Execution Phase
• Project End Date: 31/03/2024

DT4 is a Multiyear work program, with an initial focus on CRM and leveraging Trinity's data assets to their potential. DT4 will be delivered within Trinity over several phases.

• Phase 1: Enterprise CRM
• Phase 2: Data as a Service Solution
• Phase 3: Data Management Strategy
• Phase 4: Data Architecture Development

Stage gate approval has been received to proceed with the build for Phases 1 and 2 encompassing delivery of an enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform for the University, and implementation of a new data integration and reporting architecture to support this and subsequent phases of the project. Procurement for CRM consultancy is approaching appointment, and procurement for the Azure Data Hub consultancy is in the assessment stage. The preliminary launch is targeting the August/September window because this is a quiet time in the recruitment calendar. There will be further releases through to the end of 2023, and, if required, into Q1 2024. The initial launch will be for Global Engagement and Trinity Business School and will provide integration from SITS through the data hub to Dynamics 365.

• Current Phase: Implementation
• Project End Date: 01/09/2023

The project is to upgrade the infrastructure and security of Trinity's Student Administration System (SITS).  

• Phase 1: the migration of the SITS infrastructure to supported platforms – completed in August 2020.
• Phase 2: the analysis and implementation to improve the resilience and performance of the entire infrastructure. Three deliverables were identified:
  • Implementation of new chassis.
  • Implementation of Fabric Interconnects.
  • Implementation of an East-West security solution.
• A roadmap has been developed for the coordination of the phase 2 activities.

• Current Phase: Execution Phase
• Project End Date: 30/07/2023

The  Trinity College Dublin Historic Accommodation Buildings Project proposes to refurbish the Rubrics Building and the Chief Steward's House, for residential and support uses. Part of the enabling works involves the termination of the Telephone Exchange in the Rubrics Building and a rerouting of the telephone lines to the Communications room in Aras an Phiarsaigh. These enabling works require the installation of switches, and UPSs in 14 communications rooms in the front square and the installation of 350 new IP phones.

• Current Phase: Tender Phase
• Project End Date: 29/09/2023

The Risk Office are seeking to procure a Cloud Enterprise Risk Management system. The main objectives are a comprehensive, and easy to use system to allow users to create, update and manage risks effectively, workflow functionality to assign risks, actions and approvals, risk and sub-risk categorisations, risk reporting and dashboards with real time information on risks for senior managers.

• Current Phase: Tender Phase
• Project End Date: 30/08/2023

The College Project Management Office is seeking to upgrade its current Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management (EPPM) system. IT Services are working with the PMO to assist in the planning, procurement, and implementation of the new system.

• Current Phase: Tender Phase
• Project End Date: Q3 2023

IT Services are assisting Trinity’s Financial Services division as they procure a solution to replace the current OCR scanning and E-Invoicing solutions. The IT Teams are assisting with the IT Technical and IT Security considerations as they go out to the market and with any required IT Services integration work.

• Current Phase: Execution Phase
• Project End Date: 31/10/2023

The key infrastructure supporting data staging and the main College data integrations is currently coming end of life and there is a need to upgrade the underlying operating systems and application layers to updated versions in support so they are more secure. The project involves commissioning of a number of new servers and porting of all data integrations to the new infrastructure. It also involves a procurement exercise to get a vendor to upgrade application layer. It also includes a penetration test by a third party of the applications post-build. Following a review of this, all data integrations and routines will be transitioned to the new infrastructure. The main benefits of this upgrade project include a supported and more robust infrastructure, upgraded applications with better functionality and an overall more secure solution.

• Current Phase: Initiation Phase
• Project End Date: 31/09/2023

Trinity Sports Union, formerly known as DUCAC recently underwent a redevelopment and rebranding process during the 2021/22 academic year. A significant part of the redevelopment of the sports union involved a review of current sports processes such as sport club signups and management. It has been determined that many of the current processes are outdated and are required to be revised to be more user-friendly and efficient for student users.

This project focuses on the implementation of a new sports club management software, Club Force, for all 49 sports clubs in Trinity College Dublin. The main benefits include an easy sign-up process, quick payment process and split payment functionality, and the ability for external members to sign up and be efficiently managed
as well as combining procedures for sports clubs, participation in sports, and volunteering currently hosted by several platforms.

• Current Phase: Execution Phase
• Project End Date: 30/05/2023

The School of Nursing and Midwifery wish to migrate their existing ARC service into the Cloud. IT Services will be assisting the Vendor and the School of Nursing and Midwifery to ensure it is a seamless transition. This will improve user engagement and the flow of information for both the clinical allocation staff in the School of Nursing and Midwifery and those associate TCD staff working in partner hospitals. The project is due to be completed by Q2 2023. 

IT Services are currently working with Estates and Facilities in the design, specification, and installation of the ICT equipment required for the new various new Building projects.

Current Capital building projects include:

• Historic Accommodations project, Rubrics, and Chief Stewarts House refurbishments;
• E3 programme of works including the Martin Naughton E3 Learning Foundry Learning Foundry and ramp up and enabling projects;
• Old Library Redevelopment programme of works including the Old Library Redevelopment and multiple enabling projects; Ussher Library Interim Reading Room and under separate governance arrangements the Interim Exhibition and Printing House;
• Trinity East Portal.

• Current Phase: Execution Phase
• Project End Date: Q3 2023

IT Projects Office and IT Teams are assisting the College Health Service to implement a number of new services for the Health Centre including a remote booking service and additional health monitor service. 

• Current Phase: Initiation Phase
• Project End Date: Q3 2023

The Wellcome HRB Clinical Research Facility wishes to procure a Quality Management System for its unit in St James Hospital. IT Services are assisting them with the IT Technical and IT Security considerations as they go out to the market and with any required IT Services integration work.