The purpose of the Bright Ideas Forum is to identify some key challenges facing state agencies today, identify new directions in IT applications for OPP, and identify potential innovative interagency pilot projects. Pari is planning to hold four of these sessions and expects completion of this project to be sometime mid-May. Over 100 courses are available via the web until the end of the fiscal year. The service is now operating in a pilot phase. Many of the services offer the user the ability to set up a personal profile in which notification can be made via email on a wide variety of technical subjects dependent upon the choice of the user.
Audio conferences are also available within many of the services.
Gartner and Giga both need an assigned username and password, while others have a first-time user entry. All services are offered to state employees at no cost. This application allows for ease of update of press releases to the web without having to create a specific link, new web page, and use FTP to move the page to the web. It allows the user to add a vendor, search by a vendor, and also manage vendors records online. A survey has been included in the application to manage software, hardware, and services supplied by the vendor.