1.
When the City of Lima, Peru decided to join the Open
Data movement, it selected Junar for its portal after an
intensive evaluation of Open Data software vendors.
The decision-making process was as follows:
OPEN SOURCE VS. SOFTWARE AS A
SERVICE
Since the city wanted to limit how much internal
manpower would be required both during deployment
and for maintaining the system for years to come, the
option of using open source software (OSS) was
quickly rejected. The city focused its evaluation on the
leading commercial vendors of Open Data Portals.
COMPLETE FEATURES AND
FUNCTIONALITY
Junar’s platform delivered all of the features required
to support Lima’s requirements. This included:
• Managing data of many formats
• Optimizing the productivity of the city’s
employees who maintain the data
• Transforming data into consumable
information that delivers a consumer-friendly
end-user experience
• Providing comprehensive API for internal and
external developers
• Built-in support for federated data from
multiple agencies
Customer Success
City of Lima Peru
“Junar clearly understood
our culture and goals
throughout the process.”
LimaLima rated Junar as therated Junar as the
superior vendor for theirsuperior vendor for their
Open Data PortalOpen Data Portal
Geospatial
display
of
archaeological
sites
around
Lima

2. SUPERIOR SUPPORT
What distinguished Junar from all other vendors was
its responsiveness and support during the evaluation.
“Junar clearly understood our culture and goals
throughout the process. Their support following
deployment has been excellent, although it is rarely
needed.”
CUSTOMIZATION
Junar’s Open Data Portal allowed Lima to give their
portal a distinctive look as well as configuring a
dashboard of “featured datasets” which represented
the data most frequently requested by it citizens.
SETTING UP MAJOR CATEGORIES
With Junar’s advice, Lima established the following
main categories to organize its datasets:
! Education and Culture
! Civil Defense
! Investment Projects
! Health
! Administration and Finance
! Business Development
! Tax Administration
! Mobility and Transport
The Metropolitan Municipality of Lima has
added its Open Data Portal to the city’s
main web page as part of its policy to
promote transparency, citizen
participation and collaboration in
communities of users and the general
public.
This initiative is a tangible sign of Lima’s
willingness to share information in its
most basic and simple from, so that
users can analyze and transform it into
more understandable formats or to
develop applications using new
technologies and machine-to-machine
interfaces.
This initiative has been recognized as a
"Best Practice Government 2012 - in the
category of Transparency and Access to
Information" and is part of the Action
Plan of the Open Government Partnership
Peru. With the help of Junar, Lima is
setting the course for other major cities
in Latin America and the World.
The
Basilica
Cathedral
of
Lima

3. FASTEST, EASIEST, MOST AFFORDABLE
SOLUTION
Junar provides everything you need to open your data
with confidence. It's built for massive scale and
supports local and global data-driven organizations.
With Junar, you can easily choose what data to
collect, how you want to present it, and when it should
be made publicly available. You can also determine
which datasets are made available to the public and
which datasets are available only for your internal use.
Think of it as a next generation data management
system for sharing information.
Whether you want to integrate your data into your
website or have us host it for you, Junar provides a
simple workflow that allows you to collaborate with
your colleagues and manage your entire Open Data
project. The platform also allows you to drive social
conversations with the public, understand what data
they want and what they find to be valuable. And
because you can add metadata to the information you
publish, you will likely see improved use of your data
due to search engine optimization.
Junar delivers all of the benefits of SaaS (Software-as-
a-Service) to help you open data and to stimulate
innovation. We make it easy to deal with complex,
end-to-end Open Data projects and turn the difficult
task of opening data into a secure and controlled
process. Finally, Junar offers a range of subscription
plans to suit every organization: the more data you
open, the less you pay per dataset.
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Figure 1. Portion of Lima’s Portal displaying data regarding all museums in Lima