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Making governments great again. One humble permit and license at a time.
...onslaught of new demands come next. I joined Accela on the heels of a remarkable year that set the company up for renewed market and customer impact. The company opened...
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How End-User Trust is the Lynchpin to Cloud Adoption in Both the Public and Private Sectors
...investing in needed citizen services. Further, cost saved on government initiatives trickles down to cost saved by the community, ultimately making communities more affordable and livable long-term. The ripple effect...
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Leveraging SaaS for Fire Season to Promote Agile Emergency Response
...increasingly difficult and complex fire season. Here is a glimpse into some of the ways Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) can benefit fire departments and the communities they serve by allowing them to...
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Modernizing Hartford’s Government Services with Accela
...collaboration, and community engagement in modern urban governance. Hartford’s Legacy and Challenges Despite its strengths, Hartford struggled with outdated and inefficient processes for processing permit and license applications, taking payments,...
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Why Connected Government Is — Finally — the New Normal
...if they were out in the community working with our residents. I think that’s the shift of digital government – we want to offload the things a computer could, quite...
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Government Invades SXSW: An Interview with Civic Insight Co-founder Eddie Tejeda
...for permitting data that has a lot of industry support from companies like Accela, BuildingFacts and Socrata, which have come to understand that companies publishing data should publish data that...
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Smart City Policy Summit Roundup: The Advantages of Short-term Rental Regulation
...valid license, and report properties operating without a license. Complaints can be submitted online, putting city resources and enforcement actions to work against non-compliant rental hosts. Increased compliance by hosts...
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How Governments Can Meet the Solar Permitting Challenge in the Wake of COVID-19
...here. Infographic Sources: SEIA: https://www.seia.org/news/united-states-surpasses-2-million-solar-installations National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Solar Industry Update Q4 2018/Q1 2019. The Solar Foundation. National Solar Jobs Census 2018. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/72399.pdf https://solstice.us/solstice-blog/how-many-solar-panels-need-power-my-home/ https://www.seia.org/solar-industry-research-data...
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