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Accela Announces Civic Platform V10 for an Enhanced User Experience for State and Local Governments Worldwide

New features deliver a faster and easier way for government agencies to serve their communities with out-of-box Civic Applications

San Ramon, CA – Accela, the leading provider of cloud-based SaaS solutions for government, announced today the launch of Accela Civic Platform V10 to improve overall user experience and enhance performance. The Civic Platform is at the core of Accela’s offerings and provides rich functionality to automate and simplify the complex workflows associated with building communities, growing businesses and protecting citizens. Updated features include a streamlined user interface, advanced search capability, modernized GIS interface, and faster performance overall.

“Dedicated solutions that enable speed, efficiency and ease of doing business for governments are key to employee productivity and satisfaction, and enable them to better serve their communities. With V10, we made our Civic Platform more responsive and easier to use so governments can optimize service delivery to residents and businesses,” said Troy Coggiola, chief product officer at Accela. “The V10 release advances Accela as the standard for community development and regulatory workflow automation and solutions.”

The core components within the Accela Civic Platform V10 include:

• Elegant interface – giving users an enhanced experience with a modern look and feel and faster response
• Improved forms designer – providing new features and appearance to make designing new forms or editing existing forms quicker and more intuitive
• Enhanced global search capability– improving indexing and search functions so users get the documents and data they need much faster than before
• Configurable business rules – offering a new and more efficient way to create and manage the rules and logic previously implemented via scripting
• GIS enhancements – speeding the process to load maps, and making the information associated with maps easier to access and manage
• Next generation of Accela Mobile – providing significant features to bolster the consolidation of Accela’s mobile products

Pasco County, Florida, an Accela customer that participated in Version 10’s beta testing, noted advantages in both speed and usability.

“We saw marked speed improvement when doing global searches and navigation, workflow processing, and inspection scheduling with Version 10,” said David Boucher, Pasco County’s business systems analyst.

“We’ve seen tremendous demand for Accela solutions in the cloud and this has fueled increased investment and modernization in our SaaS products,” said Dave Rusconi, Senior Vice President Cloud Operations. “With the launch of Version 10 and our modern SaaS platform, Accela continues to build on the momentum of several significant 2018 milestones, including the announcement of Accela’s off-the-shelf Civic Applications and our SaaS hosting relationship with Microsoft Azure. We are thrilled with the feedback we’ve received by customers on the direction we are taking both the company and our product offering.”

To learn more about the Accela Civic Platform V10, please visit Accela’s website here.

About Accela

Accela provides market-leading SaaS solutions that empower state and local governments to build thriving communities, grow businesses and protect citizens. From planning, building, licensing and permitting, to asset and service request management, finance, environmental health and more, Accela’s offerings accelerate efficiency and transparency in governments of all sizes. Powered by Microsoft Azure, Accela’s open and flexible technology helps agencies address specific needs today, while ensuring they are prepared for any emerging or complex challenge in the future. Accela’s solutions serve more than 80 percent of America’s largest cities. Accela is headquartered in San Ramon, California, with additional offices around the world. For more information, visit www.accela.com.

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