OpenSaaS Solutions for Government
powered by Nuams
NuCivic History
● NuCivic’s CEO (Andrew Hoppin) and CTO (Sheldon Rampton) served as New York Senate CIO / Lead Developer 2009-2011
● Team won three Best of New York awards, CIO of the Year award
● Cut IT spend >10% through open-source and SaaS
● NuCivic founded 2011, serving Open Government Partnership, World Bank, NY State DMV, etc. w/ open-source solutions based
on Drupal
● Recently launched “NuCivic Data,” first OpenSaaS product
OpenSaaS Definition
(Open source + Software as a Service)
● Open source code base not just in license, but truly collaboratively built; you can make pull requests; organizations do self-host
successfully
● Software as a Service version with enterprise support is available from one or more vendors; no technology burden on customer
organization
OpenSaaS Customer Value Prop
● No technology burden (SaaS)
● Fast time to launch (SaaS)
● Freedom to host anywhere (Open)
● No vendor lock-in (Open)
● Unlimited seat licenses (Open)
● Rapid product innovation from large developer community (Open)
Drupal: History of IBM Involvement
● Leading open source content management system (CMS)
● Widely-adopted by US Federal agencies, including White House, 1000s of governments worldwide, and major brands including
Sony and NYSE
● 100,000s Drupal developers worldwide
● IBM contributing since 2006
Open Data Market
● McKinsey: open data will unlock $3-5 trillion of new
economic value across 7 industries
● US Government leading with “Project Open Data”
Open Data for Transparency
Open Data for Gov Ops Innovation
Open Data for Civic Engagement
Open Data for Entrepreneurs
Becoming Ubiquitous
Open Data Tools: Socrata
● 2009 by Socrata
● Proprietary SaaS
● Vendor lock-in
● Not extensible
Open Data Tools: CKAN
● 2011 by Open Knowledge
● Open Source (Python)
● Purpose-built data catalog app
● Limited commercial support
● Challenging to extend
Open Data Tools: DKAN
● 2013 by NuCivic
● Open Source (PHP) Drupal “distribution” (free for anyone to
download and use)
● Manage data, content, & community w/ single stack
● Highly extensible
● De facto global support network
Federally-approved
DKAN is listed by the White House Project Open Data directive as an approved tool for meeting federal agency open data requirements:
4-13 DKAN – An open data portal modeled on CKAN. DKAN is a stand alone Drupal distribution that allows anyone to spin up an
open data portal in minutes as well as two modules, DKAN Dataset and DKAN Datastore, that can be added to existing Drupal
sites to add data portal functionality to an existing Drupal site.
Testimonials
“DKAN provides the optimal experience for a data management system: the ability to share your data in dynamic ways coupled with the
means to tell stories and provide context that help bring it to life. Companies and government agencies around the world have understood
that data alone, presented without demonstrating its potential, tells only a part of the story about how it was or could be able to create
value for companies, governments, and individuals. DKAN excels at demonstrating that value.”
-Rob Baker, White House Presidential Innovation Fellow
DKAN Adoption Worldwide
DKAN is already in use by local and national governments worldwide including:
• White House
• USAID
• Oakland, CA
• Open Puerto Rico
• Cologne, Germany
• Bonn, Germany
• “Dataninja”, Italy
“NuCivic Data” OpenSaaS
● Turnkey “OpenSaaS” version of DKAN, w/ government
SLA, security, & data standards compliance
● NuCivic = product management & first-tier customer
support
● Infrastructure Partners = managed Drupal PaaS
● Flat annual cost to customers
● P.S. partners for customizations
NuCivic Data Subscription Offerings
Pro Enterprise Custom
Page Views 100K / year 1MM / year Custom
Storage 20GB 1TB Custom
Service Level Agreement 24/7 monitoring 99.95% uptime 99.95% uptime
Data migration support
Integrated API management platform, Internal user authentication integration, External data source integration
Phone Support, Monthly consulting hours*
Government security certified
Custom URL, Mobile-friendly responsive design, fully integrated CMS, comprehensive administrative interface, online
support
Custom user dashboards, data visualizations, Enhanced map design and publishing tools, Custom feature development
NuCivic Data vs CKAN
NuData allows you to:
● Full Data Management features and APIs like CKAN, plus:
● Manage content, data, permissions through same platform
● Host on FISMA compliant cloud with robust SLAs
● Maintain single software stack
● Single site to design and theme
● Transparent, well-governed upgrade path of Drupal
● Easy to extend with Drupal modules for custom features
● “A platform, not just a tool”
NuCivic Data vs Socrata
NuData allows you to:
● Full Cloud Hosted Data Management features, APIs like Socrata, plus:
● Manage content, data, permissions through same platform
● Maintain single software stack
● Single site to design and theme
● Avoid risk of vendor lock-in (its open-source)
● Easy to extend with social features
Transformative for Public Sector…
Contact
Andrew Hoppin
CEO, Nuams
1.212.464.7665
@ahoppin
getnucivic.com
getdkan.com