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CONTACT INFORMATION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Innoprise Software, Inc.™
Introduces Community Development Software
Kissimmee, Florida,
First to Deploy New Solution
ORLANDO, FL and BEND, OR, May 25, 2004 - Innoprise
Software, Inc. today announced the launch of Innoprise Community
Development, a software package that automates the creation, issuance
and tracking of public sector community development activities.
The software encompasses the end-to-end business processes required
to support city and county planning, zoning, permitting, land development,
building plan review, building inspections, licensing and code enforcement.
The company also announces that the city of Kissimmee, Florida,
is the first customer to deploy the software, replacing a legacy
system that was no longer meeting its evolving business needs.
Innoprise Community Development is the first such solution based
on the Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™)
service-oriented architecture and a multi-tiered Internet-native
platform. As a result, the unique software architecture provides
anyone involved with the community development process immediate
access to the data necessary to meet the needs of everyone from
individual homeowners to large developers, thus streamlining the
process from start to finish. Developed based on 30 years of experience
in the local government market and heavy involvement by a core group
of Innoprise local government customers, the software includes built-in
workflow automation features that track each step of the complex
land management process, from planning to permitting to code enforcement.
The software is integrated with the company's Innoprise Customer
Information System software, announced earlier in May and based
on the the culmination of two years of intense effort to build the
next generation standard in platform-neutral, cross-functional Web-based
enterprise technology.
Innoprise Community Development provides government personnel,
as well as the citizens of the community, with a consistent, up-to-date
view of the various phases and steps of the land development process,
ensuring that all critical data associated with each property or
customer is immediately available via the software’s Web services
architecture. This provides a single, consistent view of all relevant
information, enabling a wide variety of applications across the
full spectrum of community development interaction to access the
same data set.
The departments, information and applications involved with land
development are therefore unified, dramatically enhancing coordination
among departments, personnel productivity and the ability to respond
rapidly to citizen requests. Other benefits include a lower cost
of operation, operating system and hardware independence, increased
scalability, greater flexibility and the ability to easily add enhancements
without paying for costly custom programming. With Microsoft™
Office integration and one-touch reporting, users across the enterprise
can easily exchange data with desktop applications and extract information
to create even the most complex ad hoc reports, charts and spreadsheets.
Kissimmee, Florida, has purchased the new software to replace a
legacy system that had been in place since 1988. "Innoprise
Community Development is a dramatic change for the better,"
commented Mike Steigerwald, Development Services Director for the
city. "Instead of having to open and sort through numerous
computer screens to find various pieces of information about a particular
property, we can now quickly find anything we want through one intuitive
user interface." Kissimmee is initially deploying the software
to 40 employees in five departments throughout the city.
"From a management perspective, the biggest benefits we've
seen so far as a result of the new technology are the way in which
it easily integrates with standard Microsoft Office tools like Excel
and Word, the ability to quickly generate a wide variety of standard
and ad hoc reports with no need for any programming help from our
IT staff.
Reports that previously took more than two days to create are now
created in just a few minutes. With the new technology, our software
is easily ported to multiple touch points. Mobile workers can now
use low-cost devices like PDAs that provide them with instant access
to the information they need in the field instead of using rugged
laptops," said Steigerwald. "For example, building permit
and occupational license inspection schedules can be viewed in the
field using a PDA wireless connection," Steigerwald continued,
“and inspection results and comments can then be entered on-site
rather than waiting until the next visit to the office. Thus information
is captured once, efficiently and immediately, and available for
any other person or application that needs it. Using PDA devices,
we are able to offer the same functionality provided through ruggedized
laptops, but at one-fourth of the capital cost."
Next month Kissimmee plans to deploy the software on a public kiosk
at City Hall providing ready access to building and zoning information
offering on-line payment of fees. "The goal is to reduce our
existing level of walk-in traffic, from 10,000 people per year to
a more manageable level, thus freeing our staff from repetitive
inquires. We’re even looking at installing kiosks at Home
Depot,” said Steigerwald, "to make life easier for our
community's homeowners and developers."
About Innoprise Software
Innoprise Software, Inc. provides enterprise software for the specific
business challenges of utilities and local government agencies.
For the last two years, the company has teamed with a core group
of customers and concentrated all of its resources on developing
next generation software for CIS, financial management, community
development and work management. For additional information, visit
www.innoprise.com.
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