POSSE Enterprise Platform

POSSE is a powerful enterprise platform and workflow engine that automates, integrates, monitors and enforces business process rules. For the user, this means that POSSE connects all of their agency’s data, so that they can easily search and work with it. It takes tasks and automates them to increase efficiency and allow you to spend more time doing your job, rather than filling out paperwork or searching for information.

POSSE WebUI gives non-technical business users the ability to easily create elegant and responsive customer service experiences, fully compatible for all mobile, tablet and desktop devices.

POSSE GIS enables the highest-level of ESRI-based GIS integration to allow jurisdictions to start, manage, track, route and investigate business-specific activities.

POSSE Mobile technologies provide field workers with expedient in-the-field mobile computing based on their specific business needs.

Using POSSE's ad hoc reporting tool, you can quickly and easily build clean, attractive, and informative dashboards and reports. “Powered by POSSE” data in tandem with ThoughtSpot.™ AI exploration and insight discovery as easy as talking to a chatbot.

The POSSE Inspection Manager equips government agencies to more effectively and efficiently manage inspector resources across diverse business areas.

Combining the extended value of a robust development framework with the immediate value of a feature rich COTS system, our POSSE solutions for permitting & licensing and alcoholic beverage control, offer you the best of both worlds.

Our innovative POSSE product was created in 1995, through hard work and taking a big risk to develop something that had never been done before.

Government agencies today face growing pressure to streamline permitting and planning processes, enhance citizen services, and ensure regulatory compliance. As agencies look to modernize their systems, some jurisdictions may consider generic platforms built on popular customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, instead of choosing specialized, purpose-built permitting and planning software. While it may seem cost-effective or flexible to adapt a generic CRM platform for these purposes, there are significant pitfalls to this approach. These pitfalls not only hinder operational efficiency but can also lead to greater costs, security vulnerabilities, and system failures, especially in larger jurisdictions. Below, we delve into several key challenges, and discuss why agencies should strongly consider a dedicated permitting and planning solution to achieve optimal technical ownership value.

In the first part of this series, we examined the immediate and short-term pitfalls of using a generic CRM platform as your permitting and planning solution. In this next installment, we examine the long-term organizational consequences and technical debt impacts.

By focusing specifically on form automation for permitting and planning needs, we can progress beyond the hype of digital transformation claims. Instead, we’ll focus on the real word examples that clearly demonstrate the organizational gains being made by leveraging current advances in form automation.

The majority of ePlan solutions are not fully integrated within the larger Permitting and Licensing System. Instead, many systems ‘bolt on’ third-party ePlans software to their existing permitting system resulting in a compromised solution with the following systemic integration issues: