Features of Accela Automation

Accela Automation offers a powerful set of common services that allow end-users to enhance the way they interact with agency data. Accela Automation offers complete automation for the listed features below.

Powerful Workflow – Accela’s workflow engine is configured based on your agency’s existing practices. Workflows can be very complex, involving several departments and multiple steps; or can be simpler, only involving a single department and just a few steps.

Robust Reporting – Accela Automation provides your agency with the ability to leverage its existing investment in Oracle, Crystal, or Microsoft reporting tools and analyze information in real-time.

Fee and Cashier Management – Accela Automation provides administrators with the ability to quickly define fees and fee schedules. Users can assess, invoice, and receive full or partial payments from a central payment center within the application.

Electronic Document Review – This feature is designed for review staff, to automate, organize, and track review processes in a complex project, to monitoring adherence to conditions and variances. Electronic Document Review is a fully integrated feature within Accela Automation that leverages Adobe Acrobat X Pro for review and markup of documents in PDF format.

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Scripting – Accela Automation offers a powerful scripting engine that allows you to further customize your application to meet business needs. Events that can be triggered by the engine include creating a new record, resulting a workflow task, writing information to a data file, sending or receiving information from a Web service, and more.

 

SmartCharts - Provide at-a-glance, summarized business information so end-users can view actionable data and take steps to improve agency operations.

Smart Charts

GIS Integration list - Any list of records that contains location information such as address, asset, parcel or GIS object can utilize Accela GIS to display their locations on the map.

Auto-Alerts - Alerts based on business rules notify end-users of further action that needs to be taken to process or complete an application.
 
Data Filters - All list portlets provide data filters so administrators can limit the information end-users can see by role.
 
QuickQueries - End-users can determine what information they want to see by utilizing QuickQueries that enable them to define and save frequently used queries.

Report Manager - The Report Manager provides your agency with the ability to leverage your existing investment in Oracle, Crystal, or Microsoft reporting tools to provide robust reporting capabilities to produce management reports as well as business forms that are tightly integrated into your business process.

Event Manager - Accela Automation Event Manager executes event-based processes such as generating e-mail messages or calling external systems.