Lagan Public Sector

  

Overview

KANA Lagan is specifically designed around the challenging data management and integration requirements of the Public Sector and as such delivers a powerful blend of case management, business process management, knowledge management, real time analytics and social media capabilities.

Proven integrations with a wide range of back-office systems makes the streamlining of services possible across multiple departments. This provides consistent, relevant and timely information to your front and back office teams.

These capabilities and integrations are accessible through a variety of channels to both employees and citizens, who can connect how they want, when they want.

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Unique Difference

KANA is the leading local government CRM software provider in the UK, North America and Australia. The Lagan product suite has received the highest possible rating by Gartner for an unprecedented four years running in its Local Government Marketscope.

Built for the way the Public Sector operates, the Lagan product suite goes transends the contact center by also supporting online government services initiatives that utilize the web, mobile and social media, for example. As a result, our customers can accelerate their channel shift strategy in order to deliver improved service at lower cost.

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Trusted by over 200 government agencies worldwide.

Designed by industry experts

The Lagan product suite was built by a team of industry experts with hundreds of years of collective experience in customer relationship management, service delivery and government agency leadership. Our customers realize the value that expertise brings and are our best advocates.

Self-Sufficiency

Self-sufficiency is a core philosophy that underpins the development of every Lagan application. This ease of configuration frees business users from a reliance on IT as it enables them to quickly tailor their implementation and respond quickly to changes in citizen or regulatory demands.

Our customers value the benefits that our self-sufficiency approach brings. Helping them minimize Total Cost of Ownership, reduce Time to Value and maximize Return on Investment.

Market leading

  • The Lagan product suite has received the highest possible rating by Gartner for an unprecedented four years running.
  • Strong history of successful deployments — on time and on budget — for more than 200 government customers

Thought leading

  • Industry visionary with local government applications for new social media, smartphone apps and other citizen service channels
  • At the forefront of the Open311 initiative (open government)

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Key Capabilities

The Lagan product suite delivers a powerful blend of case management, business process management, knowledge management, real time analytics and social media capabilities.

Proven integrations with a wide range of back-office systems makes the streamlining of services possible across multiple departments. This provides consistent, relevant and timely information to your front and back office teams.

These capabilities and integrations are accessible through a variety of channels to both employees and citizens, who can connect how they want, when they want.

Taken together, the Lagan product suite not only enables public sector organizations to deliver cost efficiencies but it also enables you to give your citizens what they want.

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Deliver Better Services. Reduce Costs.

Designed for Public Sector

The Lagan product suite roadmap has been focused exclusively on the Public Sector since 2001.

As such, it uniquely reflects the drivers, culture and challenges of government.

Empowers business users

The Lagan product suite has been designed from 'day 1' to empower business users to make changes to the system without an over reliance on their IT department.

Examples of this include Lagan scripts, cases (processes) and codebooks.

Implemented without coding

The Lagan product suite is implemented without coding empowering the customer to make changes to the system (both business and IT users) thereby reducing their reliance on implementation partners.

Designed for integration

The Lagan product suite is designed for integration supporting many different types of business processes required in the Public Sector, including:

  • Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), supporting voice, email, SMS and many other channels
  • Customer Data Integration (CDI) / Master Data Management (MDM), supporting the creation and maintenance of 'one record, one customer'
  • Street / Property Search, supporting the identification of a street or property record using commercial gazetteers
  • Location Search, supporting the identification of a point on a map that relates to an issue, for example
  • Back Office System Integration, supporting both the creation of issues in the appropriate back office system and passing updates back into the Lagan system

Single platform supporting all Public Sector verticals

All KANA's Public Sector applications utilize the same Lagan product suite.

One major benefit to this approach is that all KANA's Public Sector customers benefit from each product enhancement made to the Lagan product suite.

Designed for flexibility

Lagan is architected according to Services Oriented Archiecture (SOA) principles enabling a range of benefits including the ability to use best of breed open source components such as the Spring open source framework and Lucene.

Quality Built In

KANA actively seeks out customer input to its product's roadmaps including the Lagan product suite. It does this through a range of mechanisms including the User Summits, Advisory Groups and face to face meetings. This ensures the Lagan product suite continues to be relevant to the issues facing our customers.

The Lagan product suite is developed according to Agile principles which includes continuous feedback and automated (unit, integration and scale / performance) testing thereby ensuring quality is maintained in an ongoing basis.

Scalability

The Lagan product suite has been proven to scale to very high levels on low-end hardware.

This is maintained through an ongoing comprehensive performance testing program.

Standards-based

The Lagan product suite is compliance with a range of important and relevant standards including:

  • W3C standards: Web Services Description Language (WSDL), WS-BPEL, BPEL4People, XML Schema (XSD), eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), HTML5
  • Those particularly relevant to the Public Sector: Section 508 (ADA), W3C-WAI 'AA', BS8766 (UK 'people' standard), BS7666 (UK 'property' standard)
  • Java Standards: Java Message Service (JMS) API (JSR194), JAX-WS, AXIS

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Architecture

Architected for the Public Sector, the Lagan Product Suite comprises 3 main "layers" shown opposite: the 'Platform Components', the 'Reusable Business Processes and Components' and 'Applications'.

The Lagan Platform provides the functionality shown within the Platform Components layer which supports the execution of business processes within the other layers. Learn more.

The Reusable Components & Business Processes layer hints at the product's Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) design, as it shows that business (data) objects, processes and forms (for example) can be built and reused across different applications. Learn more.

Finally, the top layer enumerates the various Applications within the Lagan Product Suite which leverage the capabilities from the lower layers. These are detailed below.

Architecture.

The Lagan Platform provides the functionality shown within the Platform Components layer which supports the execution of business processes within the other layers. Learn more.

The Reusable Components & Business Processes layer hints at the product's Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) design, as it shows that business (data) objects, processes and forms (for example) can be built and reused across different applications. Learn more.

Finally, the top layer enumerates the various Applications within the Lagan Product Suite which leverage the capabilities from the lower layers. These are detailed below.

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Lagan Agent Desktop

Lagan Agent Desktop provides government contact center agents with an optimized client for handling citizen contacts over the phone, by email and other channels.

Lagan Knowledge Management

Lagan Knowledge Management allows government organizations to quickly and consistently respond to citizen requests for information via the contact center and self-service channels.

Lagan Web Self-Service

This application allows government organizations to quickly and effectively provide citizen access to existing services via the web and provides benefits particularly for those government organizations seeking to commence Channel Shift strategies in response to budget challenges and citizen demand for online access to services.

Lagan Mobile

Lagan Mobile allows government organizations to quickly and effectively provide citizen access to services while on the move. This enables citizens and government to work together to highlight and resolve issues more quickly than previously possible.

Lagan Open311

Lagan Open311 allows government organizations to seamlessly and efficiently connect compliant 3rd party mobile and web apps to their Lagan product suite implementation such that their issues can be passed directly to the back office for processing.

Lagan Business Intelligence

This application supports the process of collecting and analyzing information about all citizen interactions thereby supporting 'better' business decisions by making accurate, current and relevant information available to them when they need it.

Lagan Experience Analytics

The Lagan Platform's Experience Analytics capability supports a number of applications including the 'Voice of the Customer' which enables government organizations to distill insights from customer conversations on social channels.

Lagan Integration Adaptors

In addition to the Lagan Platform's Integration capability, the Lagan product suite comes with a variety of pre-built integrations that deliver value out of the box.

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Analyst Report

KANA is Rated as Strong Positive in the Marketscope for Local Government CRM Products 2011.

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Measure the Effectiveness of Social Media Monitoring

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Open 311 Raising the Standard

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Can you deliver a Best-in-Class Customer Experience Across all your Channels

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