At D I S, our employees have the inside track to many interesting facts - or factoids - about our organization. Just for fun, a few of these have been selected for this web page.

FACTOID: Did you know that D I S maintains four Arkansas state tax systems (Individual Income Tax, Corporate Income Tax, Withholding Income Tax, Sales Tax) on the mainframe that account for 94% ($3.7 billion) of all general revenues?

John "Pony" Paladino, Software Engineering.

FACTOID: Did you know that in a typical month 4,300 or more calls come through the D I S Customer Care Center?

Submitted by Coral Davis, Customer Care Center.

FACTOID: Did you know that the Arkansas Public School Computer Network (APSCN) system has over 2,040 databases, 547,000 tables, and over 6.4 million columns in production?

With an addition of the archive databases available online (1,490 databases, 477,000 tables and 5.9 million columns) that gives us a total of OVER 3,500 databases, 1 million tables and an incredible 12 million columns in production.

Submitted by Rogers Patterson, Software Engineering.

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