As a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), state and local and federal agencies are facing new demands at a faster pace than ever before. Collecting and providing related information required for transparency and accountability is critical to governments receiving the aid they need to continue to fulfill their responsibilities to their constituents. HP is proud to build on its 30 plus year history of working in partnership with government to overcome similar challenges by offering a comprehensive set of tools and services designed specifically to address the ARRA reporting and transparency mandates set forth by the Office of Management and Budget.
HP is teaming with Microsoft and InfoStrat to help meet these complex reporting requirements by providing:
- project management office services
- consulting services
- an ARRA Tracking and Reporting application called Stimulus 360
With these offerings, fund distributors and recipients can collect, update, and meet all of the Office of Management and Budget’s reporting requirements without adding additional administrative burdens on the agency or recipients. To further ensure that our government customers achieve quick and tangible benefits, HP offers a fully hosted and secure environment for the Stimulus 360 solution and will work with you to manage all of your transparency and accountability requirements.
Stimulus 360 helps states to quickly mobilize and track federal funding sources, requirements, and grant submission processes. It manages incoming resources, facilitates downstream funding requests, and tracks allocated resources. The solution provides an effective means of compiling results, satisfying reporting requirements, and publishing content to citizens.
Stimulus 360 is a solution you can use immediately to:
- Facilitate collaboration.
- Manage and share content.
- Access and analyze business data.
- Automate business processes using workflows.
- Visualize data, processes, and goals using scorecards.
- Provide a central source for data and reports.
HP provides the tools and services to quickly and efficiently deliver a solution to monitor, measure, and report on how funds are being spent and desired goals achieved. Our ARRA offering encompasses the following services:
- Implementation Services – We implement the Stimulus 360 solution utilizing our extensive resources and partner relationships. Our mature delivery methodologies and tools reduce implementation time and risk.
- Integration Services – Our experience and expertise in the Federal, State, and local Government markets ensures integration with other systems is done quickly and effectively.
- Applications Management Services – Don’t have time to build and train applications support teams? HP manages applications for Government and private sector clients around the globe. Our teams are expert at managing all aspects of application support.
- Hosting Services – Existing environment capacity challenges? No time to build a suitable environment or infrastructure? HP can host the complete solution reducing lead time, capital investment, and risk.
- Meets ARRA 2009 goals. Stimulus 360 was designed to meet the requirements and goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
- External interfaces. Government agencies can use the integration features of Stimulus 360 to send data to federal agencies and to publish information to citizens. Together, these tools provide increased transparency to government programs.
- Provides a comprehensive end-to-end data tracking solution. The solution provides a single source of up-to-date information for users, including dashboards, graphs, maps and data visualization.
- Can be easily adopted. By taking advantage of the excellent usability and proven interface of Microsoft products, agencies can quickly drive user adoption and support the solution more easily than learning new software tools.
- Adds geospatial capabilities. Stimulus 360 adds geospatial presentations, which link data elements to mapping capabilities.
- Uses well-known development tools in an extensible platform. The solution may be tailored to meet changing requirements and is based on the Microsoft development platform, helping to ensure wide support and a large software development community.
- Offers security and workflow. The solution offers a rich and granular security model, integrated with Active Directory®.
Simple and powerful dashboards
Stimulus 360 contains rich dashboards equipped with powerful analytics. The interface is spreadsheet oriented for ease of use and may be integrated into existing applications to automate data population. The performance metrics are based on official government guidance and may be extended for the unique requirements of each customer.
Scorecards highlight progress
Store data and metrics
Key performance indicators and related metrics are stored in Stimulus 360. The data allows full exploration and analysis, such as job creation by city, county, or state. Data may be consolidated from multiple projects to provide a broader view of program success.
