Information Technology Management Committee
February 25, 1999
Meeting Minutes
Present: George Covert, Marty Deaton, Greg Fay, Rich Jacobs, Judy Pawell, Leon Schwartz, Lorrie Tritch, Dave Arringdale, Jeff Barske, Ron Beane, Tammy Bechen, John Boccella, Chris Colton, Jim Day, Tim Ganske, Ron Gilbert, Greg Hickman, Wes Hunsberger, Doug Kern, Jim Kilts, Stuart McDaniel, Bob Morgan, John Nimmo, Lesa Quinn, Scott Randolph, Sanford Scharf, Gregg Thompson, Delon Weuve, Kathy Williams, Barbara Woods, Nancy Haigh, Mike Bacino, Tom Murphy, Dan Lafsor, Katy Eaton, Kevin VandeWall, John Plain, Paul Wirtefeld, Lori Arriola, Scott Huseman, Steve Farrell, Shanda Abbott, Bill Overman, Margaret Munson, Lisa Andersen, Kevin Miller, Dan Broderick
Agenda Item #1: Welcome and Introductions
Meeting minutes for January 28, 1999, were approved as submitted and have been placed on file.
Agenda Item #2: Information Technology Services
The staff of The Office of Information Technology Services provided updates on several projects or activities.
Dave Arringdale discussed the interest that Rich Varn has in utilizing the capabilities of the ITMC and that Rich looks forward to attending the ITMC meeting in April.
Dave also presented information for Linda Plazak regarding data warehousing. Linda will present at the ITMC March meeting the need for an assessment at the enterprise level and how we might be forward with this. Dave mentioned that ITS was considering sponsoring from 1 to 4 educational efforts varying from vendor presentation, full day workshops and demonstrations of prototype applications. Dave encouraged the ITMC to become involved in planning this initiative.
Wes Hunsberger discussed the IT contingency planning survey which was due March 1. The Emergency Management Division multi-hazard plans are due March 5.
Doug Kern updated the group on the presence of two new standard development work groups; one for servers and one for office suite products.
Lisa Anderson discussed upcoming Gartner presentations.
Stuart McDaniel indicated that resolution of some outstanding issues relative to IFAS Y2K compliant system going into production April 5 and ensuring interface changes and testing occurs. However, if agencies needed information on this issue they should feel free to contact Ron Strother, ITS.
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Agenda Item #3: Iowa Communications Network
Kathy Williams provided an update on the acquisition of fax from desktop and electronic calendar services soon to be offered by ICN. It appears that the fax capability may be available in March at no additional cost to IowaHub users. Delivery of calendar service is also planned for this Spring, however licensing issues delay a decision on any pricing information.
Kathy also discussed performance issues that were occurring with the Internet access provided through ICN. A discussion of the impact of the practice of " slamming" on service providers was engaged with Kathy and George Covert providing valuable insight to this emerging problem. Kathy also discussed the capacity planning that was occurring at ICN.
Agenda Item # 4: COMPAQ Computer Corporation
Lori Arriola, State and Local Account Manager, of Compaq introduced several individuals who provided an excellent review of various product lines available from Compaq. These included
A copy of the presentation was distributed at the meeting and is available from the Chair.