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Iron Data's BizGuide solution is a Web-based, 24/7, citizen self-service product that guides potential business owners through the maze of regulatory requirements when starting a new business.
From one centralized place on your government's Web site, applicants can use a simple wizard to select the type of business they want to start. Then, after answering a series of questions about their potential business, BizGuide will determine related requirements across all levels of government, including licenses and permits. The resulting information is displayed for the applicant, who can begin the application process online, download application forms or view and print other useful information. BizGuide even allows potential business owners to create and save multiple business profiles and quickly retrieve their results at a later date.
BizGuide is a win-win proposition for business and government. With BizGuide, applicants can spend less time trying to find out what’s required to open their businesses and more time getting their businesses off the ground. For governments, BizGuide creates an environment that is entrepreneur-friendly, encourages compliance, drives revenue and creates jobs.
Key Benefits:
- Makes it easier to open a business, which increases license and tax revenues, promotes economic development and supports jobs creation
- Improves customer service by offering automated, step-by-step instructions that simplify the business owner's online experience
- Helps new business owners comply with all rules and regulations, which reduces your government's enforcement burden
- Reduces the amount of staff time spent answering questions, which allows government employees to spend more time on higher value tasks
- Powerful rules-based configuration makes it quick and easy to create and maintain the rules needed to guide customers through your regulatory requirements
BizGuide System Setup Highlights:
BizGuide can be deployed as an agency-specific tool or installed as an enterprise-wide solution that is common across multiple jurisdictions in a state-wide portal initiative. The solution can also be rolled out as a limited, "proof of concept" deployment, with additional access added over time.
BizGuide can leverage style sheets to reinforce your government's brand by inheriting the look and feel of the State portal. It can be setup as a Web application with links to disparate systems or integrated into an existing portal initiative. End users require nothing more than their browser of choice to gain access to the application. And, since BizGuide operates within your existing Web infrastructure, minimum investment is required for implementation.
