Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce

-- Umesh Sanjanwala, Director, Information Management Division, Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce

Few agencies have come as far in eight years as the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (MDAC). In 1997, the department's technology infrastructure consisted of typewriters and a handful of PCs. Today, other states ask MDAC officials to share the secrets of their IT success.

The turnaround began when Lester Spell Jr. became the state's Agriculture and Commerce commissioner in 1996. Determined to modernize the agency, Spell created an Information Management Division (IMD) and hired IMD Director Umesh Sanjanwala to prod the department into the Information Age.

• Create a flexible, reliable IT infrastructure.
• Develop automated applications to improve service and boost efficiency.

• Deploy HP ProLiant servers and SAN technology to meet the department's infrastructure requirements.
• Connect facilities with a wide area network.
• Deploy new applications such as field automation, web-based services and GIS mapping.

• The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce's work force decreased 25 percent to 30 percent since 1997, yet the agency handles a much larger workload and offers better service to customers.

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