Envisio allowed our government to keep things moving forward in a coordinated manner

I have felt supported and important as a customer with Envisio since day one. They have great customer support, provide training to help your organization fully utilize the power of the tracking and management software, and seek input from customers to improve the functions of the software. They continue to innovate and try to provide the best service to their customers.

Pros

I loved that it allowed managers to track and responded to many different goals, initiatives and action steps for a variety of different strategic objectives.

Cons

None. I love this product. It is easy to use for a variety of projects and programs. It allows for multiple different plans and it controls who can see what.

Strategy Execution Platform that Understands Government

I am a local government consultant that has used and implemented a variety of different products within this category - ranging from sophisticated spreadsheets to full-featured platforms like Envisio. I recommend Envisio to my clients because they (1) understand my clients, their business issues, and their reporting needs; (2) the ease of use for both implementation and the end user; (3) their incredible attention to their client needs; and (4) their reasonable pricing.

Pros

Envisio's strategy execution platform has the best reporting functionality that I have seen in this sector. They've thought it through very well, striking a very good balance between flexibility and structure. Because they are focused intently on public (local government, school district, etc) organizations, Enviso meets the reporting needs of my clients extremely well.

Cons

Perhaps a bit of a con is that the platform is still evolving pretty rapidly. Don't get me wrong, this is not a beta product - it is very capable and full featured (and is being used by lots of organizations, including some very large ones). Envisio's constant push towards perfecting the platform is in full motion. If you appreciate a platform that thoughtfully considers meaningful changes, this is not an issue. If you like your software to just always work the way that you first learned it, this can be a drawback.

Review of Envisio

Pros

The product allows you to track the progress and status of a plan; allows for easy updates to activities related to the objectives outlined in the plan.

Cons

A possible area of improvement is on the analytics side. Easier mechanism to build dashboards.

Easy to use, still some bugs being worked out. Great Customer support!

Overall, great experience.

Pros

- Great team, and customer service - Quick to respond to client issues - Software is easy to use

Cons

- Still some kinks or bugs being worked out - Running appropriate reports not always easy

Excellent monitoring tool for local government

We are now providing 'live' outcome reporting on around 80 measures. This information is easily accessed by our wider community, and the data can be downloaded by those with more specific research or other needs. The customer service we have received has been excellent - nothing has been too difficult, and I have been reassured by how accessible and responsive Envisio support has been.

Pros

Envisio provided an easy-to-use solution to the problem we had in trying to present simple, high-level outcome monitoring for our community. It has been easy for non-technical people to learn how to use. - our dashboards are a thing of beauty! Once we make further progress, we will be able to report (publicly or internally) all the way from high-level indicators down to low-level actions. This is the first time we have had the opportunity to link strategic outcomes with actions, and we have been delighted with how suitable Envisio has turned out to be for our purposes.

Cons

In future I would like Envisio to incorporate interactive maps into the dashboard function, but I think this is probably something that will be developed over time.