The City of Charlotte, North Carolina, has purchased Clarity's corporate performance management (CPM) and financial governance solutions. The City will manage its day-to-day budgeting operations and automate the production of the City's keystone report books, including the Strategic Operating Plan and Capital Investment Plan, using Clarity 7 and Clarity FSR.
"It's a big responsibility ensuring that public services, including public safety, transportation options, sanitation, and street maintenance, are well-planned and well-delivered, to a population approaching three quarters of a million people over 280 square miles," said Ann White, Budget Manager, Budget & Evaluation, City of Charlotte. "So we wanted a unified and flexible solution for our budgeting, capital planning, forecasting and reporting needs. After a comprehensive evaluation of the major CPM and financial governance vendors, we selected Clarity Systems. Clarity will promote data consistency by pulling information from our multiple, disparate sources and delivering a single, reliable version to the many people working on our budget and other key documents."
Clarity 7 will improve the budgeting, capital planning, HR planning, scenario planning and forecasting capabilities of the City while Clarity FSR automates Report Book production. Clarity's MS-Excel user interface and product integration with the City's existing investments in Microsoft SQL and Analysis Services were also contributing factors to the Clarity win
