Key Management Benefits Key IT Benefits Combines powerful and proven budgeting capabilities with strategic planning, business planning, and performance management functionality Seamlessly integrates all the elements critical to meeting mandatory annual budgetary processes Provides enterprise-wide consistency for creating annual, performance-based strategic plans that are integrated with policy initiatives, from board policy all the way to the individual employee level Provides greater staff and technology efficiency, better accountability for the value of services delivered, and more effective means of communicating outcomes to the taxpaying public Complies with higher security mandates Provides a ten-year horizon for capital and operating budgets Integrated environment automatically applies capital operations and maintenance impact to operating budget and related performance initiatives Links expenditures, performance measures, core services and operational activities to each other Provides consistent reporting across the enterprise, from executive strategy to individual performance Reduces overall staff time required for budget preparation and business case development Enables non-technical users to easily disseminate critical information with built-in printing and reporting capabilities With no start-up costs, IT time and money can be deployed to other projects Web-enabled service creates immediate access for all With Sarasota County’s tried-and-true solution and government expertise, quality technology development, organizations can rest assured that they’re getting a proven, stable and technologically advanced solution. GovMax is maintained by expert network engineers in a state-of-the-art, secure data center GovMax is a prime example of an innovative technology and resource sharing model that better communicate with and serves taxpaying citizens GovMax provides a single point of entry for data and text, thereby eliminating cutting and pasting while ensuring consistent data input With a built-in report writer, GovMax enables easy creation and dissemination of reports through email or direct printing – without support staff participation Budgeting and planning reports can be user generated