JourneyThrough

Innovation

The Honorable Ruth Pietruszewski, CFCMartin County Tax CollectorStuart, Florida

Introductions• Tax Collector

Honorable Ruth Pietruszewski, CFC• Data Department

Marc Villanova, Assistant ManagerRon Medellin, ProgrammerGlenn 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• Distributed Processing• Followed wide spread acceptance of the LAN• Next the Internet and Web• Commercialization of the Web spawn:

• 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• Fault tolerant• Workforce productivity• Time• Communications• Web publishing• Business operations and management• Cost-effective 4

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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• 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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Summary

Our Apps

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Index, opening tab

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Back

Index, MCTC Tab

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Back

Tax Distribution, Index

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Tax Distribution, Selection

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Back

Tax Distribution, Reports

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Architecture, queuing system

Receptionist

Electronic Receptionist

Customer DisplayClerksReception

Reception (Touch Screen)

ServerIIS & SQL

Clerks

W7 IIS & SQL

Customer Display PC