3. Overview of MDOT Responsibilities Highway construction and maintenance Airport and port development Weight enforcement Public transit Rail safety
4. Overview of MDOT Organization Governed by 3 elected commissioners representing the North, Central and Southern districts of Mississippi (Transportation Commission) Transportation Commission appoints an Executive Director who is responsible for day to day operations Approximately 3,500 employees 34 divisions / 6 districts / 70+ remote locations Administrative headquarters – Jackson, MS
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6. Each district coordinates, plans, designs, constructs and maintains their respective portion of the state’s transportation network
7. Each districts has a certain level of IT personnel (desktop support, some servers)
11. Overview of MDOT Accomplishments - 2010 $558 million in construction contracts awarded 397 miles of highway resurfaced 7,016 miles of unpaved shoulder re-shaped 3,776 miles of pavement striping applied 274,949 acres of right-of-way mowed 5,203,584 tractor-trailers weighed 36 arrests / 563 pounds of drugs seized
43. Microsoft is already a key business partner (Server O/S, Desktop / Laptop O/S, Office, Exchange, Active Directory, SQL Server, Business Intelligence, Reporting)
62. TaxonomyBasic and Advanced capture and image processing capabilities that met our requirements Best integration with Microsoft Office products through Connect
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64. Use SharePoint taxonomy to surface refiners in FAST search results that help a user navigate to locate desired information
65. Use FAST “pipeline extensibility” for associating other data with results
71. MDOT’s solution - FAST Search Results Scope File Share Content Type Refiner Managed Property Refiner File Share Folder Name Used as Metadata
72. Why FAST @ MDOT? FAST for SharePoint Best product score from our analysis – based primarily on feature set and integration with SharePoint Saved $ 300,000 – $ 800,000 (6 year) over the other two finalists in our search vendor analysis OOB navigational refiners based on MDOT metadata (content types) Using “pipeline extensibility” for association of related information to content (managed properties) Ability to tune the relevance model of search results Audience targeting, Best Bets, Federated Results, Search history (term prediction)
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74. Utilize SharePoint Designer declarative workflows to easily route content for review and approval while offering a platform that can extend to very complex scenarios
75. MDOT Executives and management are more productive as they spend less time shuffling paper.
96. The Commission is able to carry out its critical function more quickly resulting a more agile decision making body for the state of MS
97. MDOT executives and management work more efficiently as the information they need to do their job is available faster
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99. MDOT’s solution – Team Site Quote from Amy Hornback Secretary to the Transportation Commission “The staff members can go to our SharePoint site and it’s like a one stop shop for all things that deal with the Transportation Commission.”
180. Contact Information: Ken Slay Mississippi Department of Transportation 401 North West Street Jackson, MS 39201 (601) 359-7447 (office) (601) 906-2191 (cell) kslay@mdot.state.ms.us kenneth.slay@gmail.com