Granicus & iCompass Announce Partnership.
19 Mar 2008
by: Lauren Alexander
Alliance to Offer Governments in the US and Canada Maximum Meeting Efficiency and Transparency
SAN FRANCISCO – March 19, 2008. Today, Granicus® Inc., the nation’s premier provider of government webcasting and public meeting management solutions, and Kamloops-based iCompass Technologies, the North American leader in delivering web applications for electronic meeting management solutions, announced a strategic partnership. The partnership aims to:
- Expand the reach of tightly integrated webcasting and meeting management to US and Canadian local governments.
- Develop stronger and more reliable solutions, enabling both companies to expand their service offerings.
- Deliver highly cost-effective, end-to-end solutions for local governments.
Together, Granicus and iCompass provide an innovative turnkey solution that focuses on decreasing the costs and complexities of knowledge management, meeting efficiency, and public access for local governments. Both companies offer hosted solutions and enable local governments to adopt high performing and reliable solutions with greater flexibility and security when it comes to deployment, management, and on-going maintenance. All this is provided at a fraction of the cost an organization would pay to build its own internal applications or purchase expensive, traditional software applications.
“With today’s economic uncertainties and a growing public appetite for greater access, efficiency, and accountability, local governments demand integrated solutions for webcasting and meeting management,” said Tom Spengler, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Granicus, Inc. “This partnership enables local governments to seamlessly deploy the most cohesive solution in all of North America for streamlining information management, meeting automation, and public distribution of their critical legislative records with unprecedented efficiency and transparency.” Granicus’ award-winning solutions tightly integrate into the legislative process – providing tools to capture, store, manage and distribute live and on-demand streaming content while adding efficiency to existing meeting operations. Local governments benefit from Granicus’ user-friendly tools to perform minutes annotation, vote management, and public recordkeeping. The solutions also foster a paperless, completely integrated, and transparent environment for public records.
“We are thrilled to be working in partnership with Granicus to provide our customers with a powerful and integrated solution that will better assist them in managing their entire end-to-end meeting management process,” said Todd Stone, iCompass President & CEO. “This partnership will enable our mutual customers to manage their huge volumes of information for meetings more effectively as well as to provide more timely public access to this information.” iCompass provides online meeting management solutions to streamline manual knowledge management tasks involved with agenda/minutes management, action item tracking, and document storage for local governments. The two companies’ products integrate seamlessly to deliver comprehensive management for processes before, during, and after meetings, while integrating critical public records into a single, unified online source for public access.
About iCompass
Founded in 1998, iCompass provides CivicWeb, the leading meeting management solution for busy government and post-secondary professionals. Serving nearly 350 local governments, post-secondary institutions and other public sector organizations across North America, iCompass solutions are designed to remove the frustrations of manual, time-consuming tasks by streamlining the extensive effort related to managing information and preparing for, holding and following-up on endless meeting cycles.
About Granicus
Founded in 1999, San Francisco-based Granicus, Inc. helps government reach staff and constituents without barriers. Public agencies trust our webcasting solutions to enable vital improvements to public access, staff efficiency, and government accountability. In addition, the combination of webcasting with public meeting management technology into a single workflow decreases administrative costs and simplifies public recordkeeping tasks. Granicus serves more than 400 governing bodies in 44 states, building close connections with more than 30% of the American population.
Contact
Lauren Alexander
Corporate Communications Manager
415-357-3618 x1788
www.icompasstech.com
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