To Better Measure its Performance, Lane County Government Has Selected performancesoft pbviews

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) October 20, 2005

performancesoft Inc., the leading provider of Performance Management solutions for government, announced today that Lane County Government, Oregon, is the latest local agency to enhance its Performance Management initiative with pbviews. Lane County has a population of over 333,350 constituents and is geographically larger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

To drive its Performance Management initiative, the Board of County Commissioners adopted the Lane County Strategic Plan to help improve the efficiency of the agency as a whole. The Strategic Plan has four categories: Service Improvement, Resource Planning and Allocation, Performance Management and Resource Development.

To achieve the deliverables of the Strategic Plan, Lane County selected pbviews, the leading Performance Management solution from performancesoft. With pbviews, Lane County can: establish and maintain quantitative, meaningful and useful performance measures linked to county goals and strategies; identify key intermediate outcomes that contribute toward the achievement of County results; report performance for all measures and apply the results when developing plans and budgets; and, develop common standards for performance analysis, to ensure consistency between centralized and decentralized outputs to benchmark against other agencies.

“Being a good steward means being accountable to the taxpayers,” said Jennifer Inman, Lane County Planning and Performance Analyst. “Lane County Government has been developing performance measures for several years and this software takes the county to the next level. Measuring our performance with proven tools improves our ability to report back to the public and use the results to make better plans and budgets.”

“Meeting the demands of stakeholders and citizens alike is a fundamental requirement of the Lane County Strategic Plan”, said Todd Oakes, Vice President, Government Solutions, performancesoft Inc. “By utilizing pbviews to visualize outputs and measure both the leading and lagging indicators that affect overall outcomes, Lane County can be assured that it is meeting the obligations of its citizenry, while at the same time becoming a truly transparent and efficient agency.”

About Lane County

Lane County was established on January 28, 1851, and was named in honor of the first territorial governor, Joseph Lane. It is one of only two Oregon Counties to expand from the Pacific Ocean to the Cascade mountain range. The county seat is located in Eugene, Oregon, and the principal industries of the County are: Agriculture, Higher Education, High Technology, Forest Products, Recreation, RV Manufacturing and Tourism.

About performancesoft Inc.

Founded in 1993, performancesoft is the acknowledged leader in the Performance Management and Balanced Scorecard categories, with the richest, most intuitive and easiest to use product, and the largest number of successful deployments worldwide. Its state of the art software, practical expertise and unparalleled customer support make pbviews the solution of choice for today’s performance driven local government agencies, which include: Mecklenburg County, County of San Diego, New York City DCAS, New York City Department of Transportation, and many more. For more information on how performancesoft helps local government agencies reach the next level of performance excellence, visit: http://www.performancesoft.com.

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