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NISC One of the Best Places to Work in IT for 12th Straight Year

IT Cooperative Recognized by Computerworld, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Lake Saint Louis, Mo., June 22, 2015 — National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC), a leading provider of IT and software solutions to utility and telecommunications organizations, has been named one of the […]

Excitement Mounting

Excitement is at an all-time high this week. The biggest football event in the world started last week. Yes, the excitement is about football and not as much about our project… I am talking about the real football, the game […]

Connections

What do lush bath bombs, black socks, Johnny Castle, and Randy Savage have in common and why am I discussing them in my software implementation blog? The story begins in 2006. I worked at an electric cooperative in Georgia, where […]

Blast Off!

iVUE® is launched and the implementation activities have taken off like a rocket. It didn’t seem that long ago that we signed the contract and employees were anticipating the start of the project. Like a child waits for Christmas, the […]

3...2...1...PRECO in Action!

About six weeks ago, a few of NISC’s staff came and visited PRECO. This wasn’t part of the usual NISC implementation routine.

iVUE® is Launched

It’s been a few weeks since I took “spring break” and we are back on task after celebrating PRECO’s 75th anniversary. I mentioned in an earlier blog that training was one of the key components to a successful implementation. Training […]

University of Mary and NISC Announce Capstone Course with NISC CEO and Employees as Adjunct Professors

BISMARCK, N.D. – University of Mary President Monsignor James Shea announced Tuesday, April 14, 2015, a new capstone course in the Gary Tharaldson School of Business, to be taught by National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) President and CEO Vern Dosch […]

RUS Acting Administrator to Join NISC Staff, Lead Member Engagement Division

Mandan, N.D., April 13, 2015 — Jasper Schneider, most recently acting Administrator of the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Utility Service, will join NISC as the organization’s Vice President of Member Engagement. Schneider, who brings to the position […]

Time for a Celebration

Peace River Electric Cooperative celebrated a milestone on Saturday March 21, 2015 – we celebrated our 75th anniversary at our Annual Meeting! A lot has changed since the early days of the cooperative. At our meeting we reflected on how […]

Time Out

At the end of the analysis trips, Rusty and Ryan stated there would be a lull in the project while they reviewed the data gathered during the analysis trip. It is spring break for many colleges and Sarasota is the […]

Game On

Another part of the NISC team arrived last week. Channon Lowman, Business Analyst, and Ryan Wolfrum, Customer Care and Billing (CC&B) Project Manager, came onsite for the CC&B analysis trip. Tracy Liley, CC&B conversion programmer, participated in the three day […]

Advancing the Annual Meeting with NISC’s New Annual Meeting Tools

How many times have you hauled stacks of printed membership records or set up PC workstations at your annual, regional or district meetings in order to register your attendees? Does your method of tracking progress toward quorum involve tick marks […]