Legislative Management

Legislative frameworks are shifting from paper-heavy, time-intensive, manual workflows, to highly-automated workflows driven by innovative software solutions. As government agencies add legislative systems, critical data starts to accumulate across multiple, separate technologies. Agencies struggle when these systems are isolated and lack interoperability, causing duplicate efforts and redundant processes. To maximize legislative effectiveness, governing bodies need to adopt open platform technologies that allow for information exchange across multiple, best of breed systems.

Granicus solves this challenge with our open platform that gives agencies the freedom to integrate with their existing systems and infrastructure. We also enable data sharing with industry leading legislative management systems to ensure your process reaches its fullest potential. With Granicus, you can:

• Meet your specific needs with best of breed legislative solutions

  Governments require legislative technology that's designed to overcome their unique challenges. Granicus provides the nations leading, best of breed legislative solution for efficiency and transparency to over 600 government agencies. It was designed around the best practices in parliamentary procedure to ensure your agency is performing at the highest level.

• Get best value technology and processes

  Granicus legislative solutions are built on an open platform to support flexible integrations with other systems. With Granicus, government agencies have the freedom to expand their legislative processes using various, best value technologies that are exceptional in their field. Our partnerships with agenda management companies, government website providers, and government-to-citizen communication technologies, enable us to help you operate more efficiently and deliver higher quality services to citizens.

• Industry leading partnerships and end-to-end legislative management

  Governments frequently rely on agenda management and document management systems to help manage their extensive public records processes. We partner with the industry’s leading agenda and document companies to provide you with efficiency-building tools that meet the unique needs of your legislative process. These data sharing efficiencies help increase accuracy and reduce the burdensome duplication of effort required to manually enter and update the same information across separate systems.

• Leverage your existing systems and infrastructure

  It’s complex and costly for governments to replace or change their existing systems and infrastructure. To avoid this, Granicus solutions work with what you have to deliver the most efficient and accessible legislative procedures. Our media distribution servers build on top of your existing network to give you the capacity to deliver live and archived public meeting broadcasts to global and local audiences—without requiring expensive bandwidth costs. Similarly, we take your existing audio/video signal and pull it into our MediaManager application for quick and easy broadcasting over the Web. Also, our legislative solutions are compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 so your staff can modify their meeting minutes in the system they are already familiar with.

• Hands-off public meeting streaming, video indexing, and closed captioning services

  It’s imperative for agencies to deliver more transparent and accessible public records online, however, they don’t have the extra time or resources to ensure minutes, audio/video meeting recordings, and closed captioning are published to the web in the most transparent and accessible formats. Granicus provides outsourced services to capture and publish public meeting streaming media, indexed, and linked to your documents. This gives you the flexibility to provide audiences with more transparent and accessible public information, without investing extra staff time or resources.

• Innovation to keep you in front of changing legislative demands

  Government legislative requirements are constantly changing. Granicus focuses its efforts on delivering the latest technologies without requiring our clients to invest large amounts of time or money to bring those technologies to their staff and citizens. Our Managed Services upgrade program means that our clients receive solutions to their issues and new innovations at no additional cost, allowing them to leverage Granicus to invest in new technologies, rather than re-investing in technology they have already purchased.