Web Based Statistical Portal

Belfast City Council awarded Fluent Technology the contract to implement City Stats - a web based statistics portal using their Origin platform.

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The initial remit was to produce a web based system is to maintain and manage all the data required by the council to deliver their Strategic Neighbourhood Area Profiles (SNAP) and meet the core requirements:

• Support the Council’s needs analysis.
• Improve decision making by ensuring that tangible evidence is maintained.
• Empower users with tools to help with strategic analysis.
• Help citizens identify resources at a local level.

Delivering The SNAP Model

Furthermore there was a need to ensure that the system would assist in the delivery of the SNAP model by providing a facility to collate and analyse information throughout the Council, share meaningful data with appropriate parties, map services and key demographic and socio economic variables, and allow for future extensions, e.g. online area profiling.

Origin was selected as the ideal platform for delivering on these requirements. The majority are met by Origin "out-of-the-box” meaning that the implementation time frame is significantly reduced and the platform is easily customised to meet further specific requirements.

A Central Hub of Over 200 Datasets

City Stats contains over 200 datasets from a wide variety of national and local sources as well as custom data internal to the Council.

City Stats delivers the distinct advantage of managing and maintaining all the Councils evidence in one central repository. Researchers, analysts and policy officers have immediate access to tools to share, scrutinise and export data, generate tables, charts and maps, view quality meta data and produce and publish reports.

This system currently runs internally within the Council and partners private network and therefore it is not possible to provide an online reference link.

Key Benefits realised:

• Dramatically streamlined data collection and reporting processes
• Increased consistency of data definitions across all stakeholders
• More timely publishing of information to the public
• Tailored interfaces for users (e.g. my region, my data, my reports, my resources)

Contact: Mark McCann
Phone: (028) 9027 0579 ext 3622
Email: mccannmark@BelfastCity.gov.uk

This system currently runs internally within the Council and partners private network and therefore it is not possible to provide an online reference link.