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Governing effectively for today and tomorrow proves difficult when crucial information is missing, is laborious to collate or prepare, when topicality and consistency are questionable and the information lacks validity.
Traditional management based purely on operational data or financial figures is no longer sufficient due to the increasing requirements of local authorities for genuine control. What is required is a direct connection between operational business and management strategy on a standardised and central information and control platform. However, all relevant areas of municipal task fulfilment have to be taken into account: finances, revenue, education, social security, economy, demographics and environment. Thus, bundled together policy and management can develop the appeal of the area jointly to adjust its actions to the demographic, social, community and economic changes.
Ready-to-use 4-layer architecture for all political/structural activities
The key to bridging the gap between operational activity and management strategy lies in the universal 4-layer architecture across all user levels. Specific tools tailored to individual information requirements are available for every user - council members, chief councillor, section, office and department heads, administrator. However, tools and associated information levels are not isolated. Linked across all levels, they facilitate navigation in all directions, as well as universal analysis and control.
Integration instead of limitation to purely financial aspects is also a success factor in the spread of the analysis and control base to all relevant areas of municipal task fulfilment. Everything remains clear and coherent thanks to the joint architecture across all areas of activity. Thus, the tools are available across all user levels and areas of activity. Scorecards, dashboards, cockpits, six-field matrices, OLAP, flexi or detailed analyses can be used for finances and revenue, education, social security etc.
The local authority can proceed in stages when incorporating the individual areas of activity and can expand dynamically at any time - precisely as required or allowed by the individual conditions. Each area of activity is ready to use directly and offers users full usage immediately. In this context, the pre-prepared and pre-configured practical content makes a particular contribution. No first run or adjustment via laborious project work/introduction is required. This saves time and costs.
Product features:
An effective and universal process for analysis and control offers outstanding support for operational administrative behaviour and political decision making. Structured in the different areas of activity of municipal task fulfilment – finances, revenue, education, social security, economy, demographics and environment – INFOMAź offers far more than a standard reporting tool. Each area of activity has a predefined analysis and control system with tools tailored to the individual user.
All areas of activity
- Consolidation and integration of an array of data sources (finances, social security, Federal Office of Statistics etc.) via standardised ETL process (Extraction, Transformation, Loading)
- Consistent, pre-structured central storage across all areas of activity
- Universal preparation and provision of data using OLAP technology (Online Analytical Processing)
- Comprehensive and universal analysis and control tools across all areas of activity and user levels:
- Scorecards, cockpits and dashboards facilitate a comprehensive overview of capability and effectiveness using consolidated figures, critical success factors and other indicators These also form the basis for intermunicipal exchange or comparison Display of status, trends and history is also available, e.g. traffic light or ranking views
- OLAP analyses provide multi-dimensional models (OLAP cube), particularly for far-reaching ad-hoc enquiries
- Flexi analyses allow OLAP analyses straight away Rows and columns can be altered in any way at a click of the mouse Therefore, flexi analyses unify a number of standard reports and prevent uncontrolled report growth
- Six-field analyses show the most important analysis and control tools from six different perspectives The elements can be analysed in this way with one click (master data, in tables or graphical time series, compare periods, plan deviations etc. in one view)
- Context-sensitive linking of individual analysis and control tools For example, the detailed analysis can be activated from the six-field analysis, incl. transfer of filter information etc.
- Automated, time or result-oriented and government-wide report distribution with standardised reporting concept to diverse recipient groups
- Comprehensive equity concept
- Intuitive, web-based access via convenient user interfaces and alternative Windows Client
- High user-friendliness and seamless integration into the familiar Microsoft environment
- Integrated designer available for independent analyses
Individual areas of activity
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