1. Current and Proposed Organizational Activities

A. Division Organization Change – The department made a major change in its IT organization. After a 5 person review team accomplished their study the following recommendations were institued:

a) They have renamed the Information Systems Division to the Business Technology Support Division;

b) The division head should be a registered professional engineer and will act as the agency CIO/division head. They have named William ‘Bill’ Wehling to this position;

c) The application development section will be headed by a Project Management Officer with 4 or 5 Project Management Officers reporting to him. Ryan Christiansen has been named to fill this position. They are currently working to create the new positions, get them classified, and then fill them;

d) The current Technical Support Section remains the same. The only change is it will be overseen by an IT Manager 1 position.;

e) The GIS Section will report to the Project Management Officer, except for the highway data inventory collection unit. They have been transferred to the Materials and Research Division, Pavement Management Section;

f) Other than the new Division Head, PMO, and Project Management Officers positions the only other personnel changes are: Jon Ogden is reassigned to manage the Techical Services Section, Steve Brown is reassigned to manage the GIS Unit, and Ken Sieckmeyer is reassigned to the Operations Division.

2. New Systems (Just Completed, In Progress, or Preparing to Start)

A. Nebraska Information System (NIS) – The State of Nebraska and NDOR are finalizing an agreement with Profit Concepts International to complete the Procurement Interface between the State’s ERP (JD Edwards One-World) and the Departments Financial System. For more information contact John Schulte at 402/479-4654 or jschulte@dor.state.ne.us.

B. Bridge Inspection and Rating – The department has decided to implement AASHTOWare’s PONTIS and C.W. Beilfuss’s LARS products to satisfy the need for up to date Bridge rating and analysis capability. For more information please contact Jeff Handeland at 402/479-3973 or jhandela@dor.state.ne.us.

C. Traffic Operations (District Operation Centers) – The Omaha (District 2) Traffic Operations Center is under construction with a planned October 2006 completion date. An RFP to purchase the ‘DOC’ software is currently being finallized and will hit the streets in a month or two. For more information please contact Steve Garbe at 402/479-3862 or sgarbe@dor.state.ne.us.

D. Asset Management – The department has selected GBA Master Suite and the software to be used to help manage its fleet, facilities, and highway assets. They have also contracted with Carter Burgess to help configure and implement the software. This will be done in three phases with the first phase (Fleet) scheduled to begin production in Decemeber 2006. Facilities will be the second phase and finally the highway assets in the third phase. For more information please contact Jim Schmailzl at 402/479-4787 or jschmail@dor.state.ne.us.
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E. Hazardous Accident Location Analysis – The department has rewritten its application that analyzes the accidents at intersections, sections and clusters on the highway system to determine where high accident locations are. This allows the department’s staff to determine if there is any way the location can be improved to reduce the number and/or severity of the accidents. For more information please contact Bob Anderson at 402/479-4573 or banderso@dor.state.ne.us.

F. Law Enforcement Officer's Accident Report Automation – The department in cooperation with the Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice has developed an application that can be used by any Nebraska Law Enforcement Officer to electronically create and submit their Investigator's Motor Vehicle Accident Report. This is currently a manual process. For more information please contact Roger Byrne at 402/479-3928 or rbyrne@dor.state.ne.us.

I. Financial Systems Upgrade – The work of converting the last IBM IMS Databases to IBM DB2 Databases, along with the programs affected is scheduled for completion in early 2007. For more information please contact Kathy Largent at 402/479-4590 or klargent@dor.state.ne.us.

J. Preconstruction Project Scheduling/Management – The department is implementing a new project management application along with dedicated project managers (for major projects only). The product being implemented is Clarity from NIKU. For more information please contact Ryan Christensen at 402/479-4382 or rchriste@dor.state.ne.us.

3. Current IT Architecture:

Server Machines Client Machines
Category Product Category Product
Operating System: Microsoft Server 2003 Operating System: Microsoft XP
Web Operating System: Microsoft IIS &
IBM Websphere E-Mail: Lotus Notes
Database Software: IBM DB2 &
Microsoft SQLServer Security: Symantec Client Firewall
Symantec Client Anti-virus
User Management Microsoft Active Directory Database Software: Microsoft Access
Security: Symantec Firewall
Symantec Anti-virus
WebSense Programming Langages: Visual Basic
Report Management: Crystal Enterprise Engr’g Applications:
Drafting / Graphics-
Roadway Design-
Surveying-
Construction-
Bentley MicroStation
Bentley GEOPAK
AASHTOWARE SDMS, Trimble
AASHTOWare SiteManager

GIS: GEOMedia (primary)
ESRI (secondary)
Document Management: tsaADVET FALCON &
Global 360
Programming Languages: Cobol (Mainframe)
JAVA
JavaScript
C++
C#
Microsoft .NET
Lotus Notes Office Products:
Text Processing-
Spreadsheet-
Flowcharting-

Presentation-
PDF Viewer-
Web Browser-
Microsoft WORD
Microsoft EXCEL
Microsoft VISIO &
Mindjet MindManager
Microsoft PowerPoint
Adobe Acrobat
Microsoft Internet Explorer