Socrata’s suite of financial transparency apps combine a familiar, intuitive interface with powerful search and multi-faceted visualization capabilities. Built on the Socrata platform and delivered as turnkey cloud services, they can be deployed in minutes, ready for use from anywhere, and updated automatically. These applications are designed to enable • Enable better decisions with visualizations • Drastically reduce administrative and production costs • Encourage community self-service and discover

1. Introduction to the Socrata Financial
Transparency Suite
Thom Robbins
Socrata

2. What is Financial Transparency?
Let’s get started
The concept of open data and public
sector data transparency is hardly
new. Providing constituents with
access to the important information
that impacts their lives and
communities is not just good policy,
it’s common sense.

3. Socrata Financial Transparency Suite
The apps
Open Budget
Enables users to navigate all
aspects of the capital and operating
budgets and view allocation at the
department, project, and individual
program level.
Open Expenditure
Track invoice-level detail to better
understand where public money
goes and which vendors receive it.

4. Why Financial Transparency?

5. Improves
Government
Builds
Public Trust
Strengthens
Citizen
Engagement
Reduces
Operating
Costs
Supports
Data-Driven
Decisions
Promotes
Economic
Activity
Why Financial Transparency?

6. Our Approach to Customer Value
Financial transparency products designed to support
program maturity
LEVEL 3
Basic Interactive Experience
LEVEL OF DATA MATURITY
LEVEL 4
Data as
a Platform
 Consumer-style web &
mobile interfaces
 Accessible storytelling
tools for Publishers
 Open Performance and
fact-based decision
making
 Robust, high-performance
data APIs
and developer
resources
 Automated, real-time
data publishing
 Turnkey, UX optimized
apps for high-value data
LEVEL 5
The Open
Data Network
 Automatic syndication to
the Consumer Web
 Built-in Apps Ecosystem
 Data for analytics and
predictive modeling
 Intra-government data
federation
 Open connectors to
enterprise systems
 Domain-specific peer
benchmarking
 Location awareness and
mobile by default
 Crowdsourcing data and
insight
 Sensor-based streaming
data and apps
 Data science-enabled
semantic discovery
across the network
LEVEL 1
Pre Open Data Silos
 Scattered spreadsheets
and PDFs online
 Legacy custom
web apps
LEVEL 2
The Catalog Phase
 Basic catalog of
downloadable files
(CSV, XLS, SHP, ZIP,
PDF)
 Metadata/Catalog APIs
 IT resource-intensive
development project
 Manual data publishing
 Limited interactivity with
basic data tables, and
visualizations
 Social sharing

7. Financial Transparency Apps

8. Humanize Complex Financial Issues
Citizens can find the
data that matters to
them most with
neighborhood-level
data.

9. Go Beyond Transparency
Foster an active
dialogue with the
public around the
budget.

10. Open Budget Demo

11. Promote Self-Service Access
Let citizens,
journalists, and other
stakeholders find the
exact data they need
with intuitive, easy-to-understand
drill
downs.

12. Open Expenditure Demo

13. Deploy Faster
Socrata’s Financial
Transparency Apps are
the fastest, easiest, and
most cost effective
solutions available.

14. Why Socrata?

15. Socrata Overview
Seattle-based software-as-a-service
provider with a global presence
Founded in 2007
World-leader in open
data and government performance
management
Focused exclusively on democratizing
access to public data to:
 Improve citizen engagement
 Increase transparency
 Drive innovation
 Make data-driven decisions

16. Solutions
Open
Data Ecosystem
Socrata Open Connectors™
Open Data™
Apps Marketplace™
Open Performance™
 Data Discovery
& Exploration
 Chart & Map Visualizations
 Publishing Workflow
 Data Federation & Sharing
 Financial Transparency
Suite
 Government Admin Suite
 Citizen Engagement Suite
 Civic Apps Ecosystem
 Performance Dashboards
 Guided Goal Composer
 Drag-and-Drop
Report Builder
 PerformanceStat
Methodology
DATA ACCESS LAYER
Open Data API Query Engine Search Geocoding
Analytics
Data Cloud™
API
Foundry™
Open Data
Developer Network™

17. Thank You!
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