The Information Services Department of the City of Campbell River is responsible for the electronic assets of the City. This includes the network infrastructure, servers, workstations and laptops, GIS and Business Systems.
The Information Services Department at the City is responsible for:
- Purchase, deployment and maintenance of the computerized assets of the City.
- Network Infrastructure (Wide Area Network, Phone System, Servers, Printing Devices (Fax, Photocopiers, multi-function), Mobile Technology (Cell Phone, PDA, Blackberry), Firewall, Virus Checking, E-mail)
- Desktop Environment (workstations, laptops, Windows XP, MSOutlook, Office XP)
- Major Business Applications (AS400 Financials, Cartegraph, Class Registration, SCADA)
- The City Website at www.campbellriver.ca
- Geographic Information Systems (Autodesk, ESRI).
The City has 7 physical locations at which Information Services are provided including City Hall, Public Works, Firehall Number 1, RCMP, Sportsplex, Community Center and the Campbell River Airport.
The department supports approximately 130 workstations and 25 servers. Our hardware environment consists mostly of Dell equipment but we do have a Legacy AS400 System. Our desktop environment is predominately the Microsoft Office suite.