The Management Information System at INEGI

This paper presents SIGEI, the Management Information System of INEGI. SIGEI supports users in managing the main information processes at INEGI, in an integrated and distributed way. SIGEI has been designed and developed using robust methods and tools, in particular OMT and Access. Particular care was taken in ensuring that the system would be easily adapted to new technologies, and to the skill of its users. SIGEI has been identified by a strategic study carried out in INEGI. It has been closely followed by a working group including senior INEGI management. The development process followed the waterfall and the prototyping software engineering models. The article described SIGEI's sub-systems, namely Contact Management and, Proposal Management of Project Management, it describes the software development method, it provides examples of the conceptual models and user interfaces, and it finishes by indicating expected developments of SIGEI.