"I look at numbers all day, and expect to as part of my job. But when we are taking information to Council, the City Manager, Department Heads, it’s helpful to share financial information visually. It makes my job easier and it helps them do their jobs better."
“The customer is always right, but different customers are right about different things."
“We had a front office staff who transitioned from a receptionist role to more of a financial specialist role. So much of their time was freed up that they had a career progression to move over to finance.”
“The OpenGov budgeting module has a clear and intuitive layout that helps when inputting budgets for multiple years."
“Running five-year projections is much easier to manage with OpenGov. Our collaborators across departments tell us how much simpler and streamlined the process is for them with a shared platform, and we can forecast with confidence because we have the historical data at our fingertips.”
“By understanding the cost of our time preparing the budget and the cost in time creating reliable forecasting models while managing the risks of errors when using multiple manual processes, the decision to transform our processes and invest in OpenGov was fairly straight forward.”
“Time spent on preparing, formatting, reviewing, re-formatting, re-working, and all the steps required to create a budget document added up to a meaningful cost to our team and the City."
“We can expand the platform to support other initiatives — distributing additional funding or more straightforward planning and permitting processes."
“OpenGov works well for both the applicant, making it simple and straightforward, but has a sophisticated back-end to meet strict audit standards. With OpenGov we were able to efficiently process 175 applications in just 14 days.”
“The one thing we realized is that though we have business applications across the enterprise, we didn’t have one to handle something as complex as CARES Act funding. We wanted to be proactive, and we wanted an application that was flexible and served our needs and the needs of our local municipalities.”
“The City Performance Program is currently in the process of identifying regular services, activities, and management processes that most effectively meet what Pompano Beach residents want from the City. OpenGov helps bring departments together and focus on what matters most.”
“Better monitoring across funds, groups of accounts, and departments with OpenGov helps us avoid budget adjustments and makes them more accountable for their spend.”
“We realized early on that we needed to make changes, and with OpenGov we had the opportunity to quickly go back to the budget and run scenarios and make needed amendments.”
“Without having OpenGov’s web-based platform that held all of our budget inputs, we could not have generated an accurate budget document.”
“We are government, we are the state, but we are on the same team as our airports. With OpenGov we were able to be a good partner by quickly deploying shared dashboards for the key data that drives their businesses to enable better, faster decisions.”