FIESTA-MES Project

The Florida Integrated Environmental Systems TodAy - Managed Entity Summary (FIESTA - MES) is a sub-project within the larger Integrated Management System (IMS) effort.  It is one component of the complete user interface. This interface focuses on the business needs associated with displaying summary information for a selected Managed Entity. The FIESTA - Map Direct (MD) component is an integrated component that will address the related GIS needs and requirements and is a separate sub-project managed by the Division of Water Resources Management.

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BCMS Project

The BCMS - Phase I project was the first of three project phases proposed by the Bureau of Beaches and Wetland Resources to integrate their permitting, compliance and project tracking applications into the enterprise Oracle applications. Phase I was limited to the tasks needed to modify the existing database to meet the BIS data naming standards and the transfer of the BCMS database from the BCMS instance hosted on the BBWR’s servers into the Oracle instances ORADEV, ORABETA, and ORAPROD maintained by the Bureau of Information System (BIS).

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PMDC Project

There are currently a number of performance measurement business processes and systems in use in DEP. Each of these has been a stand-alone performance measurement business process in support of a specific reporting requirement (LRPP), state function, or the legislative budget request. In 2002, Secretary Struhs met with EOG staff and Legislative Members and staff to propose that the DEP implement an activity based/ performance measurement system that would, to the greatest extent possible, streamline and coordinate our disjointed planning, budgeting and performance measurement activities. The review and revision of DEP's performance measures was one element of the proposal; as was the development of an activity based budget and cost structure. The Department has completed the review and update of the performance measures and now has created an application to collect, store, process, and share the performance measurement data.

Note from the Project Office: This project has an excellent "Lessons Learned" document - "PMDC Post-Project Audit Report" that was facilitated by Terry Tizzard from the BIS Project Management Office. This project also has excellent documentation and will be useful to Project Managers looking for good examples of deliverables.

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OSS Project

Currently, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has the ability to provide information to the general public concerning public notices, permits, and compliance information via comprehensive database repositories. Information within these repositories can be triggered to generate an e-mail automatically based on changes to specific data. The themes of data that can be made available will be at the discretion of the program areas within the agency.

These are the project's critical success factors:

1. The ability for customers to receive e-mail notifications of changes to the Official Notice Publications

2. The ability for customers to create and maintain a profile that contains their special area(s) of interest.

The objective of the project is to create a public website that will allow members of the public to view themes of information where by they can obtain e-mail notification when new or modified data is received into the agency. Not only is this project expected to improve the level of service to the public at large, but it is expected to reduce the number of requests for information that are received via phone and mail.

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Web Point Lite Project

Web Point Lite is a stand-alone website component that can be called by any website for data verification and data quality improvement. It displays vector data over raster imagery, features GIS-like map navigation tools, and displays tabular feature data from permitting databases. Web Point Lite was created to provide a useful, enterprise-level method for validating locational data. Its function is two-fold: (1) draw the point on a map that coincides with any given pair of Albers coordinates provided by the user; and (2) allow the user to move the point, then return the final coordinates back to the user. Using the imagery and the supporting vector layers (roads, road names, streams, boundaries, and other features), the user can verify the point is already correctly located or move the point and receive the new coordinates.

Scope of Effort
The scope of this project includes the following:

• An input/ouput frame for coordinates.
• A controls frames with the essential navigation tools.
• A customized and streamlined ArcIMS HTML viewer.
• Code for accepting user-specified coordinates, centering a point in a window, moving a a point on a map, and returning new coordinates.
• Complete program documentation.
• A user's interface guide.

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GIS Knowledge Base Project

Not having a central repository makes locating and disseminating key information more difficult and time consuming than it needs to be. To better serve both GIS section staff and the FDEP GIS community, the GIS Knowledge Base was created to store information such as implementation notes, results of implementation help desk calls, tutorials, “how to’s,” articles on technical issues, notes from training sessions, and links to websites with GIS-related information, as well as to provide a search mechanism of said information.

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Apps BETA Server Upgrade Project

Project for upgrading the BETA application's server to improve speed and storage space.

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Apps PRODUCTION Server Upgrade Project

Follow on upgrade of the Production application's server to improve speed and storage space, and ensure the production box was as modern as the alpha and beta servers upgraded before it.

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ALPHA (Development) Server Upgrade Project

BIS Application development server upgrade to obtain better hardware performance and disk capacity.

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Microsoft Application Center Pilot Project

Request:  This project is formalizing the present casual research and development review of a relatively new Microsoft technology for creating redundant services called Application Center. It also includes the testing of static web sites as part of the actual and final rollover of these sites onto the new clustered web servers. Initial research and casual tests have been successful enough to warrant placing the original project, THLWWW2 Upgrade Server into the MS Application Center Pilot, which upon completion will  provide a redundant service via the eventual upgrade of our Internet web server. 

Project Objectives:  This project will determine if MS Application Center is a viable product that can successfully provide redundant, fall-over, 24/7 service to our Internet web sites and applications to be hosted on the new server and then on this likelihood, actually move content over to this system.  

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Web Beta Server Upgrade Project

Request:  ISSC retired aging WebBeta server with an existing, superior hand-me-down server released from other service.

Network Exchange (NetEx) Project

Request:  The Network Exchange (NetEx) Project is a pilot project being done for the Florida Division of Water Resource Management (DWRM) to test and develop a prototype Data Exchange system for the electronic transmission of discharge monitoring reports (DMRs) using a newly developed standard XML schema. John Coates has initiated the pilot project and will be the Project Sponsor. Don McEwen, DWRM Acting CIO, and R. John Willmott, DEP-BIS, CIO will provide project oversight.

Project Objectives:  Wastewater dischargers submit environmental permits and compliance reports to state regulatory agencies and EPA on paper via parcel post. This includes the required monthly and daily discharge monitoring reports (DMRs) and related data from NPDES permitted facilities discharging to receiving water bodies. Lately, some states have either considered or begun working on developing an electronic submission capability for DMRs. This presents a host of technical, legal and resource challenges, two of which are, security implementation mechanisms and data exchange systems.

By pooling resources and information, it is anticipated that states can investigate and test some acceptable options to address these challenges. Much groundwork has already been done, especially in the area of XML schema development for electronic DMR transmission. For example, the e-DMR XML Schema Work Group, under the State/EPA Information Management Work Group (IMWG) - Central Data Exchange (CDX) Action Team, developed an e-DMR solution that will have broad applications, including:

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