CMIS Overview

CMIS is a functionally rich product designed by practitioners, for practitioners and therefore has much to offer organisations who wish to enhance, streamline and manage their meeting process more effectively.

• CMIS allows members, employees, and the public access to published information in a controlled and secure way.
• All interested parties are able to review, comment and interact directly on plans and decisions.
• The public is able to participate and respond to forthcoming consultations and decisions through signing up to email notifications which improve your organisation's democratic processes.
• CMIS is accessible from any browser enabled device allowing users to gain access to all information from an office, home, library or public Internet facility.
• Employees can access critical information remotely and securely when they needed it quickly and efficiently.
• CMIS provides a powerful database which offers users details on a variety of topics including:
• Members and/or Councillors
• Committees
• Agendas, minutes and reports
• Political affiliations
• Attendance and interests
• Decisions
• Forward plans
• Decision histories
• Public documents
• Users are able to access exempt information with the correct log in credentials.
• The database records every committee year on year and forms a valuable historical archive of the organisation's decisions and published information.
• Online facilities are provided which allow public access to all details from past meetings, as well as daily updates of the future meetings diary.
• CMIS provides a searchable archive of information which enables further ease of use.
• A smooth transition is aimed for during implementation which entails maintaining paper based systems until you are ready to go live with the CMIS electronic environment.
• Once information is stored and managed in a digital environment the customers of that information can choose whether to print locally or just view on-line providing ease and flexibility of use.
• Document printing packs can be created for internal use to collate the agendas, minutes and reports together. These documents can then be sent to print or viewed online allowing for paperless meetings.
• The CMIS web pages themselves can be integrated with corporate web sites being easily customised to fit seamlessly into your corporate design standards.
• A library of web services can also be provided so that customers can, should they wish, create their own system web front end.
• CMIS offers leaders of an organisation's democratic process with the option of creating an easy-to-manage set of public web pages that is either maintained for them, or that they can maintain themselves.
• All clients become members of the CMIS User Group and are welcomed to attend quarterly User Group meetings. There are currently two User Groups in operation; a Central User Group and a Northern User Group.