Our Products
Openplan Workview
Openplan Workview is our workload and capacity analysis and forecasting software to help busy local authority planning service delivery teams see and understand their workload, capacity, work-in progress, and productivity. Workview enables users to visualise a benchmark starting point for their service and forecast how the future ‘does’ and ‘could’ look with improved process and changes to capacity.
This means senior leaders can understand the scale and nature of challenges and test their ambitions for the service before making data-driven decisions and taking action. And with a clearer picture of the balance of workload and capacity, it also means increased capacity, reduced stress, and a more professionally rewarding workplace for service providers – without additional long-term costs.
Our Workview clients often tell us that visualising their data in this way helps them to see and understand things more clearly so they can be more proactive and resilient to arising challenges.
The Benefits
Workview helps to:
Create a clear and convincing data story of challenges faced and possible solutions that adds credibility to the lived experience of senior leaders, service providers, service users, and other stakeholders.
Use data to build confidence that decisions and investments made and actions taken will deliver the outcomes promised.
Build support for improvement work by evidencing how things are now and how things could be to influential stakeholders including Council Members.
Show everyone the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’- a surprisingly powerful tool to reignite belief that things can be better and build commitment to making it better.
Our Products
Openplan Dataview
Openplan Dataview is our data query tool that unlocks hard-to-access data, documents and information and opens them up to everyone who needs them.
Often, planning data are hard to access and hard to use – including for people making planning applications, for people deciding them, and for everyone else interested in them. We see a fair and efficient planning process as open and transparent. So, Dataview helps to make sure that everyone can access and use the information they need, when they need it.
Dataview includes a major-scheme application progress visualisation tool for applicants, planning authorities, and other interested people, an easy-to-use viewer of publicly available planning information, and a planning data query tool for planning authorities.
The Benefits
Dataview helps to:
Reduce time spent dealing with customer enquiries and progress requests and create more capacity for planners to determine applications in hand.
Reduce officer time spent sourcing data from complex systems.
Visualise the performance of a planning service more quickly and accurately so senior leaders can make data-driven decisions when they are needed.
Create a fairer and more efficient planning system that enables more trusting relationships with external stakeholders and service users.
Our Products
Openplan Migrate
Openplan Migrate is our data migration software that supports efficient, accurate, and predictable data migration. We often see migrating data and documents from old to new systems as a major challenge for local authorities.
Data are often inaccurate, inconsistent, or incomplete, and the nature and scale of data challenges might be unknown until midway through the migration process. That means it can sometimes be difficult to build trusting and collaborative relationships with software providers whose lived experience tells them that data migration can often go wrong.
So, Migrate helps to fix problems caused by unreliable data before they reach the new system. By building a disciplined data model in between old and new systems, Migrate transfers and fixes old data there, then inputs the clean, accurate data into the new system.
The Benefits
Migrate helps to:
Remove the uncertainty surrounding data migration to make for a more predictable, quicker, and cost-effective process.
Build supplier confidence as a gateway for more collaborative working and better results.
Reduce the headache caused by data migration and create capacity for senior leaders to focus on the change leadership that is so critical to successful software implementation.
Build confidence among teams and stakeholders in the knowledge and confidence that data migration is being done well.
Why have I never seen this before? People often talk about challenges in planning, but this has really made sense of it.
- Openplan Workview user, Chief Executive of a Northwest Metropolitan Council