With growing demand of having integration of 3S technology and integration of softwares of different platform into on DSS, IT solutions using state-of-the-art technology for collection, processing, storage, management, display and communication of environmental and hydrological data becomes an important discipline of expertise. The IT solutions may be part of a complete system involving other services from IWM such as models, or it may extend the clients’ existing technology. For example, making the data of a database accessible on WWW. Services would include the following:

• Developing and interfacing databases with environmental and hydrological data.
• Using Internet technology for data acquisition and access.
• Interfacing geographic information systems (GIS) with advanced simulation models.
• Using data mining for decision support.
• Procurement and management of all the modelling and GIS and other commercial software available around the world and its beta testing.
• Integration of different software if necessary by developing new object oriented modules as a single package solution in a holistic approach.