The Microsoft Citizen Service Platform: At Your Service Microsoft CSP is a comprehensive solution designed to help local governments worldwide to serve citizens and businesses. Leveraging the Microsoft product stack and template applications, Microsoft CSP delivers a wide range of business capabilities. Around the world, local governments are today using the Microsoft Citizen Service Platform to meet their needs for:
Communications applications: Applications to enable an agency’s employees to receive and send e-mail, to manage calendars, to communicate in real-time, and more.
Search: Functionality for desktop and Internet content search.
Citizen portal: A Web site that provides search capabilities, links to other Internet resources, and functionality for personalizing information and services pages for citizens and businesses.
Interactive forms: Services application forms that citizens and businesses can fill out and submit online.
Geographical information systems (GIS): Tools for cartographic data entry, mapping/spatial query, and visualization of maps.
Intranet portal: Provides staff with an integrated view of information across an organization with single sign-on to Web-based applications.
Web space: Personalized Web pages where citizens can create and post their own content and create their own e-mail accounts.
Citizen contact center (citizen relationship management): The ability to provide multichannel access (phone, Web, e-mail, and instant messaging) to the information and services of a government agency, and to integrate with case management.
Case management: Functionalities that, in response to internal or external event triggers, enable government employees to set up workflows to assess, plan, perform, monitor, and evaluate the options and services required by constituents.
Document and record management: Applications that enable gathering and feeding of documents and other media into collections, formatting and conversion, organizing and maintaining information, and managing user access and editing rights.