Because these days, effective government means managing continuous 24/7, two-way communications with residents, business and vistors.

The Internet provides government with the ability to realize vast improvements within two "holy grail" areas of operational focus: efficiencies and service levels.  Through the effective use of web technologies, the governments can capitalize on these opportunities by:

  >   Establishing an always-on centralized communications channel
  >   Virtualizing government services and two-way interactions

Segmentation, Workflow and Applications

In implementing the concepts above, Government requires a solution that provides adequate control in meeting such needs as segmented audience messaging (residents, visitors and business), workflow (publishing and task management) and applications management (service provisioning).  Given the scope and volume of work involved to do this effectively however, many organizations are quickly discovering that an ad-hoc collection of tools just isn't up to the task.

User Groups and their Needs 

That being said, QP7.GOV provides a centrally-administered framework that easily supports audience-specific messaging, content management activities and applications development.

The Toolsets

While these functional areas (task types) represent a broad range of activities, they form into two fairly homogenous task sets.  QP7.GOV takes into account the relationships between the task sets, and the work style of the groups whom most often perform the tasks.  With these preferences in mind, QP7.GOV is separated into toolsets for both Business and Web Professionals.

Tying it all Together

The Business toolset (content authoring) presents a simplified environment familiar to its users, promoting focus, speed and efficiency.  WhatРІР‚в„ўs more, an administrator may take the concept of focus one step further, by altering content permissions and workflow structure within the Business environment, restricting authoring to audience group, site sections and content state.

Web professionals can continue using their favorite editing tools, in tandem with the open and flexible environment of QP7.GOV, to create easily accessible and objectified "building block" components.  These user-defined components promote reuse and consistency, making advanced design a question of creative assembly, and not repetitive, brute-force coding.

QP7.GOV - SIMPLIFIED TOOLS, COMPREHENSIVE TOOLSET