June, 2004 :: Wombat Technology continues to deliver a centralised access point for Local Councils in Australia with the WombatView™ Enterprise Search Server.
Recent contracts with Greater City of Dandenong and Macedon Ranges Councils for a corporate wide roll out of the WombatView Search Server re-enforces the benefits of a centralised "Entry Point" for users to access important council information.
Australian councils are characterised with having numerous IT systems to manage various levels of information with regards to rate payers, projects and services across their jurisdiction.
For many years council IT departments have endevoured to consolidate their information systems and provide a centralised repository or access point for this content.
Nirvana for a council is to have a consolidated view of every record and file related to a rate payer or their property.
Consolidating information can be quite difficult as structured and unstrauctured sources of data are contained across correspondence in e-mails, word & pdf documents on the file system and property data records in multitudes of databases across the council.
The WombatView™ Enterprise Search Server helps to move a little closer to Nirvana by its ability to scan all these data sources and deliver council employees via a Web Interface with a comprehensive list of documents and records related to a rate payer or their property.
The returned results are restricted to each council employees security permissions across every data source whilst the FOI mode provides a comprehensive and extensive listing of documents and records.
Wombat Technology can provide a remote demonstration to any prospective local government council wanting to see how the WombatView solution could be applied across their organisation