Accela Automation is a Web and Cloud-based enterprise application that helps organizations create a more citizen-centric, performance-based government. Also, Accela Automation utilizes an open architecture and a centralized database, allowing information to be shared across departments and improving communication between an agency’s office and field staff, the public, businesses, and other key stakeholders. It provides a complete solution for automating critical tasks associated with permitting, code enforcement, community development and planning, inspections, licensing and case management, asset and resource management, and more.
Accela Automation offers various applications, providing organizations with the option to utilize one or all five depending on what information is critical to be shared across departments. Accela Automation applications manage the core business activities of a single department or work as an enterprise solution to manage the activities of an entire jurisdiction.
Below are a few examples of the types of applications agencies can choose to automate.
Permitting
Additionally, Accela Automation’s newest integrated feature, Electronic Document Review is designed for review staff, to automate, organize, and track review processes in a complex project, to monitoring adherence to conditions and variances. This feature leverages Adobe Acrobat X Pro for review and markup of documents in PDF format. AUTOMATE the hundreds of steps involved with completing a permit— application check-in, plan reviews, fee calculation and collection, inspections and investigations, sign-offs, task lists, and more. MANAGE inspections and investigations by utilizing the flexible configuration of the system to assign, schedule, and route assignments to the appropriate person, while defining the sequence of tasks to mimic your department’s existing workflow. TRACK important documents such as building plans, architectural drawings or business licenses every step of the way or assign new tasks or deadlines directly using Accela Automation.
The Accela Land Management application can help your agency manage and track these activities in one integrated system.
- Building
- Code Enforcement
- Community Planning
- Emergency Response
- Fire Safety
- Public Health and Safety
Asset Management
The Accela Asset Management solution can help your agency manage and track these activities in one integrated system.
- Facilities Management
- Fleet Management
- Parks and Recreation
- Public Works
- Storm Water Management
- Transportation
- Wastewater Collection
Licensing
Additionally, Accela Automation’s newest integrated feature, Electronic Document Review is designed for review staff, to automate, organize, and track review processes in a complex project, to monitoring adherence to conditions and variances. This feature leverages Adobe Acrobat X Pro for review and markup of documents in PDF format. AUTOMATE workflow for licensing, registration, application, and renewal processes beyond a simple checklist by automating and tracking all of the steps in the approval and review process. CONFIGURE searches, labels, page layouts, fields, and tables to create a licensing and case management solution that meets your agency’s unique needs. TRACK enforcement actions that involve licensing and random site inspections, complaint or regulatory investigations, hearings and adjudications, and more. The Accela Licensing & Case Management solution can help your agency manage and track these activities in one integrated system.
- Alcohol Beverage Control
- Banks and Financial Institutions
- Environmental Control and Agriculture
- Industrial Compliance and Fire Marshal
- Occupational and Professional Licensing
- Public Health & Safety
- Real Estate
- Weights & Measures
Public Health and Safety
Manage Health Inspections
Accela Public Health & Safety provides a central database for managing health inspections for any commercial business including restaurants, hospitals, nursing homes, and more. The system can be configured to reflect your jurisdiction’s existing regulations, ensuring that regular inspections are performed in a timely manner. The system can also help your department track historical information about a business such as past violations or corrective action.
Maintain Environmental Health
Managing regional air and water quality is an important aspect of your jurisdiction’s public health mission. Accela Public Health & Safety helps track and manage all of your environmental licenses and regulations—vehicle emissions, fuel dispensing devices, dry cleaners, major industrial plants, agricultural operations, asbestos testing and abatement, land clearing and grading, and other regulatory needs.
Ensure Life Safety
Accela Public Health & Safety helps your agency protect lives and property by providing an effective solution for identifying fire and life safety hazards and enforcing relevant codes. Accela provides a flexible activity tracking system to automate and manage license and inspection activities across the entire spectrum of your fire and safety codes. In addition, Accela’s solution can help your agency automate fire prevention educational activities for every member of your department as well as your citizens.
Accela Service Request
Departments that currently use Accela Service Request include:
- Call Centers
- Mayor’s Office
- Customer Service
- Police
- Code Enforcement
- Real Estate
- Facilities
Improve Customer Service
By automating all of your service requests and providing a centralized database for this information, Accela Service Request ensures that your agency is able to access real-time information about the status of any request at any time. Managing information is easy, saving staff time and reducing their overall response time to incoming requests.
Assign Projects Automatically
Accela Service Request allows you to automatically assign service requests based on a variety of criteria that help you determine who is most qualified to handle the request. Additionally, alerts can be set to automatically request a follow-up action or additional information. By automating internal procedures, service can be provided consistently and thoroughly to all citizens.
Utilize a Knowledge Base
As requests are received and stored in your centralized database, your agency can begin to take advantage of a growing knowledge base. This library of information can be used to provide consistent answers to customer issues, generate a list of FAQs, and provide management with information about the most prevalent concerns in the community.
White Papers
- Delivering e-Government: Three Key Areas to Achieve ROI and Improve Citizen Services
- Emergency Response System: Expansion and Innovation
- Government-to-Business (G2B) Web Services and Online Permitting
- LDAP Integration: Simplified Administration and Increased Security
- Mobile Technology Solutions for Today’s Government
- Rethinking Recovery: Three Perspectives of Emergency Management
Webinars
- Accela Asset Management – Length 1:03:46
- Accela Licensing and Business Express – Length 34:55
- Accela Electronic Document Review – Length 01:01:10
Datasheets
- Accela Analytics
- Accela Asset Management
- Accela Automation Overview
- Accela Business Express
- Accela Citizen Access
- Accela Electronic Document Review
- Accela GIS
- Accela IVR
- Accela Land Management
- Accela Licensing & Case Management
- Accela Mobile Citizen Access
- Accela Mobile Office
- Accela Multilingual Licensing Business Express
- Accela Product Overview Brochure
- Accela Public Health & Safety
- Accela Service Request
Success Stories
- Alameda, CA Permitting Solution New Hosted Service Provides Cost Savings
- Catawba, NC Permitting Solution New One-Stop Permit Center Powered by Tidemark Advantage
- Cleveland, OH Permitting Solution Cleveland, Ohio Transforms its Community with Enterprise Land Management Solution
- Colorado Inspection Agency Permitting Solution Web-based Solution Provides Flexible Approach to Building Services
- Contra Costa County, CA Asset Management Central Contra Costa Sanitary District Utilizes Accela Asset Management Solution
Product demos
- Accela Asset Management – Length 02:00
- Accela Electronic Document Review – Length 04:01
- Accela GIS – Length 01:50
- Accela Mobile Office – Length 01:46