The software systems used by back office staff often have matching requirements despite geographical boundaries. Individual organisations may have opposing political agendas, beneficiaries and development strategies, but the core characteristics of providing information and saving money remain the same.
Setting up a shared Website and Hosting infrastructure with a single Web Content Management system allows for simple and controlled content publication, with the ability to share common content and differentiate service providers easily.
The experience GOSS has in the market empowers us to understand the barriers to success and how to overcome them.
We Are One
GOSS facilitate shared web services with the following:
- One Web Content Management system
- One Website
- One Content repository
- One Hosting infrastructure
- One Fixed cost
This can result in many benefits for your organisation:
- Make your capital stretch further with a solution that has a lower cost per council
- Create efficiencies by sharing content authoring, tasks and service management
- Share knowledge and training to reducing costs
- Ensure content can be segregated but also shared with enhanced security
- Single hosting environment 24 x 7 x 365
- Single system to upgrade/maintain
- Unlimited sub site capability to ensure all requirements of each party can be supported
- Open site development ensuring development costs are shared
- Completely shared cost between authorities with one maintenance agreement
- Single largest dedicated Local Authority User group
- Proven partnership and shared services delivery
- First hand experience at setting up successful shared service partnerships
- Hand held migration either through automation or application or migration resources. GOSS have experience in migrating clients out of many existing well known systems and databases.
Want to know how you can share services and reduce your costs?
Interested local authorities and third sector organisations can join, free of charge, shared service workshops facilitated by GOSS. These whole day sessions investigate:
- Channel Strategy
- Critical success factors
- The process
- Metrics and analytics
- Bringing services online - the fully transactional website
- Learning from best practice
Get your project started now by telling us about your goals
