Transcript Journey Through Innovation

Journey
Through
Innovation
The Honorable Ruth Pietruszewski, CFC
Martin County Tax Collector
Stuart, Florida
Introductions
• Tax Collector
Honorable Ruth Pietruszewski, CFC
• Data Department
Marc Villanova, Assistant Manager
Ron Medellin, Programmer
Glenn Blume, Programmer Analyst
• Team of Great Co-workers
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Sharing Our Journey
• Attend to our own software applications
• Goal: To increase efficiency in our business practices and
financial operations
• How we met that goal
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Distributed Processing
Followed wide spread acceptance of the LAN
Next the Internet and Web
Commercialization of the Web spawn:
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Readily available programming languages
Editors
Servers
Ease of use associated with the browser
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The Intranet
• Private/corporate counterpoint of the Internet
• Powerful Intranet
• The dream of the new paradigm is achieved
• The goal of MCTC is within reach
• Benefits of Web based applications
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Fault tolerant
Workforce productivity
Time
Communications
Web publishing
Business operations and management
Cost-effective
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A Little Support Along the Way
• Ron Medellin full time programmer and partner
• Marc Villanova handles the network issues
• Our Director Ed Walker shares the vision and provides the
guidance
• Tax Collector fully supports our efforts
• Tax Collector’s background is in IT
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In Reality
• Client desktop PC very powerful
• Client desktop PC can now share in processing Web
application
• Almost ANY business application and financial operation can
be written for the intranet
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Benefits and Savings
• Create reports at the click of the mouse
• Use calendars for inputting date ranges & text boxes for
inputting text
• Reduce paper
• Data maintained for archiving requirement
• Applications are tailored to our operation and are easily
modified in a timely manner
• Tax Distribution app is saving our office hundreds of hours
every year
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Excellence in Finance
Operations Award 2011
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Summary
• The future is in the cloud, not only the Internet but also
the Intranet
• Tools, editors, and programming languages are readily
available
• Need only JavaScript and C# or their open source
counterparts
• Almost ANY business application and financial operation
can be written for the Intranet
• Applications are tailored to our operation and are easily
modified in a timely manner
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Our Apps
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Index, opening tab
Back
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Index, MCTC Tab
Back
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Tax Distribution, Index
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Tax Distribution, Selection
Back
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Tax Distribution, Reports
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Architecture, queuing system
Receptionist
Reception
Clerks
Customer
Display
Customer
Display PC
Server
IIS & SQL
Electronic Receptionist
W7
IIS & SQL
Reception
(Touch Screen)
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Clerks