Legislative Workbench

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Legislative Workbench

Propylon's Legislative Workbench (LWB), is a comprehensive set of business applications that support the running of legislatures. LWB includes full document and workflow management, automated amendment engrossment and true in-context and point in time archiving. LWB is highly customizable, and can be tailored to each legislatures own working practices.

Features and Benefits

Deploying the Legislative Workbench within the legislature can reduce paper costs and introduce considerable process efficiencies. Existing paper based workflows can be replaced with print on demand or fully electronic bill books. Our in-depth domain knowledge of the unique challenges of legislative document authoring, workflow and publishing result in our solutions being the most flexible, robust and user-focused systems on the market.

Feature	Related Benefit
Bill drafting and automated consolidation & codification	Improved workflow, reduced print costs,increased accuracy & reduced re-keying of data
View document changes over time	Improved understanding of legislative intent
Legislative event notifications	Improved information flow
Scalable hosted solution	Reduced infrastructure costs
Full measure history tracked by actions and decisions	Speeds up legislative process and improves understanding and intent
Statute and standard phrases inserted and statute mark-up applied automatically	Improve speed and accuracy
Automatically transition data through legislative workflow	Streamlined workflow with increased accuracy
Automatically generate in-context amendment instructions	Streamline workflow and reduce paper costs
Chamber management and calendar maintenance	Improved communication and process efficiency
Automated journal production	Improved communication and process
Internal and external legislative portals	Staff, legislators and constituents are always up to date, promoting eGov
All legislative content fully indexed and faceted search enabled	Improved discovery and access to legislative content by research and decision support

LWB in the Legislature

Mouse over each section of this diagram of a typical legislature for details of how the Legislative Workbench supports all areas.

Ls in the Legislature

Technical Details

The Legislative Workbench is built on Propylon's LRMS. LWB is a scalable and open platform that can be deployed on a public or private cloud, which in today's tight budgetary climate can result in further cost savings for legislatures.

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Propylon, through our extensive experience, bring not only a world leading suite of products designed and developed specifically for the legislative domain, we also bring other significant benefits which make us stand out of the crowd when it comes to legislative software:

Proven Experience: Propylon have been working with legislatures and regulatory bodies for over ten years. With this experience Propylon have developed in-depth domain knowledge of both legislative and regulatory domains.
Methodologies: Through our work in the legislative domain, Propylon have developed methodologies which best tackle the unique problems faced by legislatures and minimize risk when delivering legislative systems.
Sample Clients: Over the years Propylon have acquired and nurtured domain knowledge from working in the Legislative and Regulatory markets. We have developed and formalized our methodologies and products to provide the best solutions for our clients while minimizing risk. To put it simply we let our achievements speak for themselves.
Open Data Formats: Enabling citizens and businesses develop intelligent apps and services that can add value to legislative data.
Legislative Enterprise Architecture (LEA): Propylon's enterprise architecture is specifically designed to support the functions, processes, performance considerations, information, technology and services of the legislative business.