Description of a Product for Your City and County

What Benefits Does This Product Offer to You?

What Features Does This Product Have?

How Was This Product Developed?

CityEdge and CountyEdge are ea solutions that will structure and streamline your city's and county's back-office operations.

The most important feature of CityEdge and CountyEdge is that it captures Best Practices within cities, enabling you to improve business processes and ultimately, increase productivity. For you and your resources, improving efficiency is not just in working harder; it's in working smarter. With the right business processes behind you, you will almost immediately see an increase in productivity.

These Best Practices are continuously being added and improved upon with every ea customer. As the Best Practices continue to grow and improve, you will continue to benefit from this improvement cycle with ea's EasyStreet program.

With EasyStreet, let us worry about the business processes and technicalities of your back-office, while you focus on your core function, serving the citizens of your community.

CityEdge and CountyEdge were designed by cities for cities. The purpose of these products is to bring you an ERP package that is specially designed for you. The benefits of this would include:

	BEST PRACTICE PROCESSES
	Best Practices for cities have been captured, documented and configured into CityEdge and CountyEdge .
	BENCHMARK CAPABILITIES
	You have benchmark capabilities with the Best Practice processes captured within the solution to ensure maximum efficiency within your city. With EasyStreet, your solution continues to be upgraded and enhanced with each new city's implementation. As the solution is upgraded, ea will roll out the new release to you, ensuring that your business processes are always best business practices and running on the most current technology.
	REDUCED COST
	Implementation cost is drastically reduced as the standard city configurations are built into the solution, with the flexibility to customize the solution to your needs.
	SECURE
	Security is of the utmost importance and ea approaches network security with a hierarchical pervasive methodology. Starting with comprehensive and strong security and user based policies, enforcement is 24x7. This includes constant monitoring of all network equipment and active removal of possible security treats.
	FAST
	Implementation is accelerated as the standard configurations for a city is already in place and our industry experts have a good understanding of city operations.
	FOCUSED
	Enhanced focus within your organization enables the strengthened function of your individual units.
	PRACTICAL
	Practicality of the solution has been proven by the cities that have designed and are running the solution today, assuring that the solution you implement will reflect a real-world organization structure.
	EFFICIENT
	Optimized business processes have been captured and will be further developed with you to ensure that you see an increase in productivity and efficiency.
	STREAMLINED
	Picture your city systems running as one entity, enabling shorter turn around times, transparent business processes and immediate access to all available data.

CityEdge and CountyEdge are customized solutions based on SAP. SAP is an Enterprise Resource Planning software package that includes, among others, the following components:

	Funds Management with Accounting and Budgeting
	Asset Accounting
	Human Resource - Personnel Administration and Payroll Accounting
	Human Resource - Personnel Planning and Development
	Employee Self-Service
	Purchasing
	Warehouse Management
	Maintenance
	Grants Management

Together, these components provide your city with a solution that combines the integration of data with streamlined, transparent business processes.

The CityEdge and CountyEdge product development methodology ensures the continuous improvement of the solution for all stakeholders to continue to see the benefits within your city.

On a high-level, this methodology consists of four key building blocks.