Harrison County IT seeks OpenAI licenses and new network-management tool in budget
Summary
County IT presented budget requests for OpenAI licenses and NinjaOne, saying the AI tools will support departmental programming and NinjaOne will allow remote device management and scheduled updates. The board approved the item after discussion.
Mr. Niffenegger outlined the department's primary software requests for the coming year, saying the first items are "OpenAI, which are licenses for artificial intelligence programming and tools that the IT department will be using." He described the second request, NinjaOne, as a network-management tool that will let IT reach and control individual county machines and push scheduled updates.
The IT presenter told the board that NinjaOne will replace several older tools and provide faster access to end-user machines: "We can push updates on a scheduled basis ... we can turn your machines on and off. We actually have more control of what's going on on your individual computer and more access on a quicker basis than it is." The requests were presented as part of a broader transition year for phone systems and software.
The board voted to approve the presented item at the end of the discussion. Mr. Niffenegger said implementation details and contract negotiations would follow; he did not provide firm timelines for deployment during the meeting.
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