The Irish Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) planned to
deliver the 2014 local election results to the internet in
multiple downloadable formats as part of the Open Government
Partnership (OGP) initiative. However, due to budget and time
constraints they decided to shelve the project.
5 days before the election, Ostia offered to prove their claim of
'data from anywhere, here now'!
The solution was up and running before the election and was
glitch free. The downloadable feeds have been used by a number of
independent organisations, one of which is available on the site,
Count Visualisations, which give an excellent explanation of how
the Irish PR system allocates and transfers votes.
The feeds continue to be actively used in the ongoing analysis
of the election.
An agency collects surveyed information, on an annual basis,
from all it's companies. The purpose of the survey is to collect
accurate data on client performance to measure against a number
of key targets such as export gains. Ensuring the timely
completion of the data collection exercise is critical. The
ability to provide live snapshots of progress so as to quickly
identify and address sources of delay and other issues is a vital
requirement.
The Solution
Using Portus, Ostia have developed a bespoke site which
includes an interactive set of visualisations. These monitor the
status of the returns process with:
Multiple, real time data
feeds for each client company
Real time visualisations of
data returns status by:
Development advisor
Department
Business Unit
The Result
As a critical source of data in the evaluation of the agencies
service effectiveness, the data return process has a number of
benefits. The ability to easily monitor real time the data
collection process allow the agency to rapidly identify delays
and bottlenecks. This in turn enabled them to fully complete the
returns process significantly earlier than usual.
Happy Customers
Technical Demo
Take a look at our technical video for an overview of how
this demo was made.
Live Demo
Take a look at our live video to see the finished site in
action.
In Ireland, a new system of domestic water charges is being
introduced for homes that are connected to a public water supply
or to public wastewater services. Irish Water, the national water
utility, will administer the water charges.
Water meters are currently being installed around the country.
Ostia have created a demo using sample data which shows the
metering progress per county, making it available using:
Google Maps
Live Analytics based on the
feeds
The Result
This solution could be used to track any large install process.
The organisation had multiple phone systems with multiple
systems managing and tracking inbound and outbound calls. They
had limited views of what each call centre operator was doing
based on the system or systems they were using.
They were interested in accessing all of the data from these
systems centrally in a normalised fashion so that they could get
a broader overview of the areas where there were problems and to
enable them to compare the statistics from the different areas.
The Solution
Using Portus enabled them to collect this information and
visualise it as shown in the demos.
Local governments throughout Europe have been mandated by EU
law to ensure that septic tanks are inspected regularly to avoid
damage to the environment. Irish local government have central
records detailing the number of septic tanks in each county,
however, each county records the information regarding how many
septic tanks have been inspected separately and in different
systems.
There was a requirement to provide centralised and up to date
details on how many septic tanks in each county had been
inspected so that this information could be made available on
request. This was complicated by the fact that each local
authority in Ireland has their own data centre operation so this
had to work securely across firewalls and open networks.
The Local Government Management Agency contacted Ostia to:
Make the data from each
council available in real time securely in a central location
Show real time visuals in
Excel
Show real time visuals in
Google Maps
Ensure this and other data
is available to other authorised sections of government
The Result
Local government in Ireland can now determine in real time what
levels of inspection of sewage tanks has taken place and are
planning to use the same solution to make other distributed data
available in real time using similar analytical techniques.
Prototype Visual Solution with Data, Developed in 2 Hours.
Case Study
Ostia were preparing a bid for an Irish Government tender to
enable a central EU facility to integrate and interact in real
time with the local entity's IT systems. As part of their bid,
Ostia wanted to illustrate how quickly we were in a position to
stand up the required integration services with some synthetic,
but realistic, data that was based on the model provided in the
RFT for demonstration purposes.
The Solution
Ostia created a demo in less than two hours that showed:
Data services to map the
services required for the integration processes.
Synthetic data that was
based on the data model provided in the RFT.
A front end to illustrate
how easily the data could be accessed using a graphical front
end.
The Result
Ostia were called to present their proposal submission and were
informed the following day that we had won the tender. We were
informed that our realistic demo (created in just 2 hours) was a
key part in us convincing the client that we had the ability to
deliver based on the cost structure and within the timelines we
had said we could.
Happy Customers
Take a look at our technical video for an overview of Rapid Data Retrieval.