LaPorte County Announces Launch of beaconT Web Portal
Friday September 05th 2008
Filed Under Schneider
PRESS RELEASE
CONTACT: Siobhan Casey
The Schneider Corporation
Phone: 317.826.7170
e-mail: scasey@schneidercorp.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LaPorte County Announces Launch of beacon™ Web Portal
LaPorte County, Indiana (September 3, 2008) The LaPorte County Council, along with the County Commissioners, have unanimously agreed to open a public service website located at beacon.schneidercorp.com to the community.
LaPorte County’s beacon™ portal features a public site which provides important property taxation and assessment information, with detailed reports and advanced searching capabilities. The beacon portal also provides users the ability to view an interactive map of the County’s Geographical Information Systems (GIS) data and aerial photography, as well as convenient tools to collect specific parcel information.
“Beacon is allowing La Porte County Government to provide better services to its tax payers,” said Melissa Mischke, LaPorte County GIS Coordinator. “It is also allowing better information sharing within Governmental agencies.”
Beacon is able to provide benefits to the county by reducing requests at the courthouse counters and telephone lines, allowing county employees to complete their work more effectively. Beacon will also give users 24-hour access to public records so they can get needed information from governmental entities, even when the courthouse is closed.
“It is well structured, easy to use and gives powerful tools all in a single spot,” said Mischke. “It was very easy to get started; we had a prototype very quickly.”
Because all website set-up, development, hosting, and maintenance tasks are handled by The Schneider Corporation, there was no need for LaPorte County to purchase additional equipment. Beacon has been designed with a component-based architecture which allowed for a rapid deployment of the product to the county.
“LaPorte County has always been a pleasure to work with,” said Tyler Poling, Schneider’s Beacon Product Manager. “They have been extremely helpful throughout the beacon implementation process and are very eager to provide property information access to their community via the web.”
The Schneider Corporation currently hosts similar sites for more than 100 organizations across the Midwest, including Marshall, Kosciusko, LaGrange and Wabash County, Indiana. For information about beacon, please visit www.geogearonline.com/beacon or to see beacon in action visit http://beacon.schneidercorp.com.
About Schneider: The Schneider Corporation has been providing GIS solutions since 1989 to hundreds of county, municipal, state, federal and private entities. We provide GIS services that exceed the expectations of our clients. Learn more about The Schneider Corporation at http://www.gis.schneidercorp.com.