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January 2021 Update to the Four-Year Technology Roadmap

January 2021 update (revision 75) to the four-year University-wide technology roadmap is available to University constituents as a PDF document on Penn+Box at:

https://upenn.box.com/v/techroadmaps

This technology roadmap’s primary goal is to help Penn’s technology professionals make contextual decisions within the overall University technology environment. It is for internal use—please do not forward it to non-Penn individuals.

This twenty-first update to the roadmap has 42 of the 183 existing technologies listed modified in some way. One technology has been added—Delegated Management (ARS), while six technologies have been removed—Payroll/HR, Windows 2012 Server, Windows 8.1 Update, OS X 10.11.x, Safari 9, and Java SE 9 and above.

An orange box to the technology name’s right delineates all modified technologies, and changelogs describe them on the roadmap’s final pages. Note that the roadmap for many technologies has been affected in some way by the University’s ongoing responses to COVID-19.

This roadmap represents the best current estimates of the status of these technologies. It will often revise over time and is wholly re-evaluated every quarter. My thanks to individuals across the University—about 25—who assisted in compiling this 22nd release of the roadmap.