The Data Processing section is responsible for automation efforts in all divisions and offices of the Commission. The Commission is presently totally electronically networked to all divisions internally and to the State of Alabama's consolidated data center. Additionally, the Data Processing section has developed an Internet Web site for use in consumer education, consumer inquiries, and to allow downloading of Commission orders and other publicly available documents. The servers are presently running Windows NT, and clients run either Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 or Windows 98.
Programming is accomplished with the access language.