Polco and Envisio Partner to Offer Better Data for Strategic Planning

A new partnership streamlines strategic planning data collection for local governments. 

Polco has teamed up with Vancouver-based strategic planning software company Envisio to offer a version of Polco’s GPAL data on Envisio's platform. 

GPAL, a comprehensive data resource, curates and organizes public data from the US Census, the FBI, and dozens of other trusted sources into one place. This ensures that the data local governments rely on for their strategic planning is reliable, accurate, and up-to-date. 

While Polco provides government leaders with robust data, analytics, tracking, and community engagement services, Envisio offers software that helps the public sector specifically with strategic planning development, tracking, and reporting. 

All GPAL data remains available to all Polco clients on the Polco platform, but now Envisio clients can access this data as well. 

The collaboration between Polco and Envisio assists local governments in aligning strategic priorities with community needs based on data. Combined, the GPAL integration into Envisio provides local governments with a powerful decision-making toolkit.

“Polco’s mission is to bring communities together around their most important issues and to help use data from those experiences to maximize quality of life for their constituents,” said Nick Mastronardi, CEO of Polco. “We are excited to work with Envisio to optimize the decision process for governments and put community livability data front and center of their plans.”

Envisio CEO and Co-Founder Mike Bell emphasizes the significance of this partnership, stating, “This innovative pairing of Envisio and Polco puts powerful data at the fingertips of local government leaders who are implementing strategic objectives.” 

Through this integration, local governments can select community-specific performance measures and benchmarks, and align them with their strategic objectives. 

By leveraging the strengths of both Envisio and Polco, local governments can produce more informed and more effective strategic plans than ever before. 

Learn more at envisio.com/polco-track/

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