IT portfolio management is the application of systematic management to the investments, projects and activities of enterprise Information Technology departments. Examples of IT portfolios would be planned initiatives, projects, and ongoing IT services. The promise of IT portfolio management is the quantification of previously informal IT efforts, enabling measurement and objective evaluation of investment scenarios.
Eckles, seven miles northeast of Senatobia near Poagville, was settled when Frost Barrett bought several thousand acres of land in 1875. It was named later for the Eckles family. The Eckles Post Office was opened in 1886 and closed in 1906.
Mount Carroll began life as a mill town around 1841. In 1843, a referendum moved the county seat from nearby Savanna to Mount Carroll. The town was incorporated in 1855 and became a city in 1867; the first mayor was Nathaniel Halderman, a prominent local businessman and co-founder of the mill.