Get everyone to understand the great work your city, agency and state is doing using Questica's budgeting, performance, transparency and engagement software solutions.
Government
The future of public sector finance is transparent and accountable.
Questica OpenBook can help you build transparency and trust with your stakeholders by communicating with easy-to-read visuals. Showcase your financial and non-financial data with interactive charts, tables, and graphics with descriptive text, informational pop-ups. Your stakeholders can easily find out what they want and need to know about the government’s plans, projects and issues in their community with OpenBook’s searching and filtering options. Explore OpenBook sample visualizations now.
Communicate with councils, boards, staff and citizens like never before.
OpenBook Project Explorer for capital budgets
Datasets, data sorting and filtering, plus subtotal grouping
Locally controlled data
Share data through all social channels
Seamlessly connect with Questica Budget
General-purpose Map visualization
Import any data
Detailed information pop-ups and ability to zoom
Advanced search feature
Set-up in minutes, intuitive to use
Integrates with Balancing Act's budget simulation tool
Display data in interactive charts, tables, bars and graphs
Access through any platform, including smartphones
Embed charts on any website
Easily mastered with online training videos and guided tours
Integrates with Google Analytics for deeper audience insights
Project Explorer for Capital Budgets: Put all your capital projects (budget, images, docs, video) on an interactive map
Sample data visualizations are available on our Open City website.
Drill down to a budget line item with our search, filter/sort options
Quickly find what you are looking for with our built-in search
General map visualization can display any geographical, latitude/longitude points, geometry data on an interactive map
OpenBook can help you engage more effectively to tell your story. Transparency enables better ideas, better conversations and better financials. Is your city, county, agency or state ready for better?
OpenBook Can Help Your City, County, Agency or State
Disclose to citizens how their tax dollars are spent
Communicate your strategic plans, priorities and performance indicators
Engage constituents about plans, projects and issues that matter most in your communities
NEW - OpenBook Project Explorer for Capital Budgets
OpenBook now seamlessly connects to Questica Budget’s Capital Budget module bringing the ability for local governments to display capital projects on an interactive map.
The OpenBook Project Explorer allows cities, counties, agencies and states to display on a map every infrastructure project, including the budget, actual spend, funding sources, and accompanying documentation, images, video, etc. Governments can also link related activities to showcase the depth and scope of capital projects that are happening in a city, region, state/province or country.
Improve Trust and Accountablity
By sharing your city, county, agency or state’s information in user-friendly format. Work with internal partners like council members, senior administrators and staff. Or connect with your citizens, businesses, community leaders and media.
Be More Collaborative
Give stakeholders access to the information they’ve been looking for. With OpenBook data is free to go where you need it. You can embed it in charts on websites, share it through social media, or access it through a smartphone.
Intuitive and Easy-to-learn
Quickly upload a dataset and start a visualization. To make your setup seamless, OpenBook integrates to Questica Budget and supports any other data source. Plus, there are training videos and built-in guided tours to enhance the learning experience.
Balancing Act Integration
Questica Budget and OpenBook seamlessly integrate with Balancing Act’s budget simulation tool. Balancing Act is the leader in public sector participatory budget simulations and taxpayer receipt software.
Our Approach
We take incredible pride in delivering an exceptional customer experience for each of our customers. Our goal is to get your city, county, agency or state up and running with little to no disruptions. Throughout the process, we listen, adapt and always uncover ways our tools and technologies can improve your organization’s outcomes and enhance our future offerings.
We’re proud to be recognized by Government Technology News on their annual GovTech 100 which showcases the 100 leading companies serving state and local governments in unique, innovative and effective ways.
Our team is full of friendly technology experts, budget professionals and business specialists that are ready to help you with our software solutions. They can show you how Questica Openbook can help your city, agency or state share and engage with data through a personalized demo or sign-up for one of our free information sessions. The next one’s on February 9, 2021.
Connect with one of our OpenBook experts.
Our team is full of friendly technology experts, budget professionals and business specialists that are ready to help you with our software solutions. They can show you how Questica Openbook can help your city, agency or state share and engage with data through a personalized demo or sign-up for one of our free information sessions. The next one’s on February 9, 2021.
750+
customers across North America
$65B+
in annual public sector budgets managed
35+
different financial systems integrations
50
states, 12 provinces/territories
“The budget document is a once a year thing – it’s not something that people outside the organization would look at throughout the year. Aside from the people that are very engaged with the budgeting process, the budget book is such a foreign thing to the average resident. Graphs, charts, and information they can explore online is much more relatable in OpenBook.”
Will Payne, Management Analyst, City of Largo
“Compared to other software vendors we deal with, Questica is always the quickest to respond to inquiries, provide guidance, and make repairs. All the staff is always very friendly and professional and it is a pleasure to work with them.”
Strathcona County, AB
“The customer service provided by the Questica staff has been excellent - always very professional and pro-active in adapting their product to our needs.”
Wanda Richards, Budget Director, Shelby County, TN
“The Questica support team is very quick to respond to queries, and have always offered to work directly with other program vendors to fix an issue rather than pass the buck. Questica was also very willing and helpful in customizing our environment to meet our needs”.
