About ITI

Who We Are

The Information Technology and Innovation (ITI) department's Enterprise Information division empowers informed decision-making across the City of New Orleans through:

  • Data Services: Providing open data initiatives, ad-hoc reporting, and self-service reporting for data-driven insights.
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Integrating geographical features with data to support spatial analysis and visualization.
  • Web Technologies: Delivering high-end design and innovative web solutions to enhance user experiences and streamline processes.

Our collaborative teams harness technology to foster transparency, improve service delivery, and engage with citizens.

Operations

Help Desk

  • The Help Desk is the point of contact for all support and work orders, including but not limited to hardware and software questions, technology consulting, installations, networking questions, network connection requests, mobile devices and general troubleshooting. Every effort is made to resolve problems at the point of entry to the Help Desk; however, problems requiring specialized technical skills or those whose solution is not apparent are forwarded to tier 2 and 3 support personnel for further investigation.

Networking

ITI provides network services that keep the network up and running at optimal effectiveness and efficiency.

  • Local Area Network (LAN)
  • Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)
  • Wide Area Network (WAN)
  • Internet Service Provider (ISP)
  • Remote Access VPN’s
  • Internet content filter
  • Network management
  • Web Outage/CMS Issue
  • Special Access/Permissions

Systems

Application Hosting

  • This service maintains applications to multiple entities from its data center across a wide area network by providing hardware, software and resources to support the hosting and offers on- going support of business applications

Databases

  • ITI provides locally hosted and supported development SQL Server data- base as well as a production SQL Server database for approved requests.

Engineering

Project Management Office

  • ITI provides project management services. The goal is to deliver projects that meet customer requirements according to timelines, budgets and quality standards.

Quality Assurance/Quality Control

  • ITI employs quality assurance and quality control methodologies to measure and assure the quality of our projects, and quality control measure to ensure we satisfy customer expectations.

Security & Architecture

ITI ensures a secure network by providing protection against threats to the computer and network security and provides scalability, reliability and security required to control and manage servers and other networked devices.

  • E-mail spam/virus filtering
  • E-mail encryption
  • Intrusion detection
  • Intrusion prevention
  • Firewall
  • Proxy services
  • Computer password controls
  • Security policies and procedures
  • Enterprise Secure Web Filtering
  • Secure citywide authentication remote access to city applications, websites and terminal and remote desktop protocol server access
  • Security components to remotely access city internal networks.
  • Enterprise services
  • Works for a variety of popular access platforms