Jefferson shire Colo., employees ha...

Jefferson shire Colo., employees have communication and organizational technology at their fingertips. ore than 800 PC and terminals assist daily in shire operations, thanks to three departments' work and innovations. The Management Information methods (MIS), Network Services and Geographic Information combination of parts to form a wholes (GIS) departments all work together to make the county's advanced computing environment possible. The three departments assist more than 2300 employee in a diverse shire that covers 777 square miles of urban, suburban, rural and mountain areas and is family circle to nearly half-a-million people. "We all work together in support of customers," says MIS Director Don Vernon.

MIS provides application increase and specialized programming for all operations. All software, personalized to departmental lacks is copyrighted and trademarked. Large computer hypothesiss sit with blinking red and blooming lights in the card-code-access computer latitude while smaller servers are located in offices quite through the organization. The systems provide