Today, we are thrilled to announce a new strategic partnership with Tyler Technologies, a leading provider of integrated software and technology services for the public sector. Together, Polco and Tyler aim to revolutionize how local governments engage with their communities and make more data-driven decisions, particularly in the critical area of budgeting. By bringing together Polco’s advanced community engagement and budget simulation platform with Tyler’s powerful budgeting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, this partnership will provide governments with unparalleled insights into public priorities and needs.
Rethinking Budgeting with GFOA
As part of this strategic partnership, Polco and Tyler are deepening their collaboration with the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) to advance budgeting practices across the public sector. Polco has been a core partner to GFOA for more than two years, helping spearhead effective budgeting best practices for local governments. Tyler and Polco are also partners with Envisio, the most widely used strategy execution and performance management platform in local government. Polco, Tyler, and Envisio are working with clients at the forefront of GFOA’s Rethinking Budgeting initiative. This initiative focuses on rethinking traditional approaches to budgeting and equipping governments with tools to:
- Engage Communities in Budget Decisions: Ensure budgets reflect community priorities and build public trust by integrating resident feedback directly into financial planning.
- Promote Transparency and Accountability: Foster trust and understanding between governments and their constituents by leveraging technology that creates more open and accessible budgeting processes.
- Embrace Data-Driven Decision-Making: Make informed, evidence-based decisions that drive better outcomes with Polco's data insights and analytics.
Tyler Technologies: A Licensed Polco Reseller
This partnership will allow Tyler Technologies to act as a reseller of Polco’s product suite in combination with Tyler’s Priority Based Budgeting (PBB) solution, including:
- Engage - Gather insights from your community on budget-related issues.
- Budget Simulation - Let citizens interact with budget decision-making tradeoffs.
- Prioritize - Easily gather stakeholder prioritization over a set of programs.
- Taxpayer Receipt - Show residents the value they get for their tax dollars.
- Track - Automatically pipe data from virtually every publicly available public-sector-relevant data set into time-trend and benchmark comparison dashboards.
- AI - Leverage workflow assistance agents identify community strengths, weaknesses, and trends, and weave those into draft strategic plans.
“The budget is the foundation for a community’s ability to enhance its outcomes. Priority Based Budgeting complements Polco by embedding community engagement into the budgeting process, and research shows that involving residents in the budgeting process leads to better resource allocation and connection with a government’s overall budget strategy. We’re excited to partner together and to support GFOA’s Rethinking Budgeting initiative,” said Chris Fabian, senior director of Product Strategy for ERP Budgeting, Tyler Technologies.
Today’s announcement is more than just a collaboration between Polco and Tyler Technologies —it’s a commitment by the largest and the best in public sector software to transform how local governments operate and serve their communities. Together, we are paving the way for a brighter future where public engagement and data-driven decision-making are at the heart of government operations.
