MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT

In 1993 the Commission created a Management Information Systems office to oversee the development of automated systems throughout the agency. The program coordinates MIS planning, helps with systems development, provides technical support to Agency personnel, produces this agency web site, maintains and procures hardware and software, and develops agency MIS procedures consistent with State directives and agency resources. The MIS Department currently has a staff of three and manages a network of over 100 computers with connections to central State mainframes and the Internet.

During the first six years of the program, much of the emphasis was on networking microcomputers with other computer resources (eg. internal UNIX workstations, the Internet) and other government agencies, standardizing commercial software, moving data applications to common database management systems, developing new data applications, increasing network security measures and training personnel. Since 1999 the Commission has been looking at ways to make use of the internet to make interaction with the Commission easier for our clients.

Contact Erik Barth , MIS Director, for further information.