“The process before OpenGov was was pen and paper, Excel, invoices, quotes, you know, hard copies of everything. And if something needed to be updated or changed, you had to go in, create a new version of an Excel, then share that with everybody by email, have the face to face meetings. You know, it was very time consuming.”
"Now that I can export the data from my accounting system and feed it directly into OpenGov, it saves me three to four days of work creating the report each quarter."
“We used to use Word documents and email communication to get everyone at the college to identify their needs, and that can take months to complete. Now, we can get the same work done in just two to three days.”
“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.”
“The customer is always right, but different customers are right about different things."
“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.”