What Is GovTech?
Mix (12 tools)
- License: 4 open source · 8 proprietary
- Hosting: 4 self-hosted · 8 SaaS · 0 both
Software built for state / local government and public agencies – as opposed to generic business tools that merely happen to have government customers. It spans:
- Public-administration ERP – fund accounting, budgeting, procurement.
- Permitting & licensing / community development.
- Citizen engagement, meetings & legislative management.
- Public safety – CAD, records management (RMS), 911.
- Open civic-tech – open-data portals, participatory democracy, FOI.
Boundaries
- Generic tools that merely serve gov (CAD, diagramming, scheduling) stay in their own categories.
- Nonprofit / donor / human-services case management ->
nonprofit-donor. - GIS ->
gis-geospatial.
About this data & disclaimer
The information on these pages was researched by a combination of human review and large language models. This catalogue serves as a reference for the resources, applications, devices, deployment payloads, and other components that the ResorsIT platform integrates, deploys, and manages. To suggest an addition or correction, please contact us. Prepared by Rhodium Systems Inc., author of the ResorsIT platform — a unified IT operations management platform for IT teams and MSPs that integrates a curated suite of open-source, commercial, and SaaS applications into a single system with shared identity, single sign-on, access control, and a common audit trail. This information is compiled on a best-effort basis: it may be incomplete, contain errors, and become out of date as tools, vendors, licences, and features change. Use this catalogue only as a starting point for your own research, and independently verify and review any tool carefully against your own requirements before relying on it.
Comparison
At a glance
| Tool | Segment | Self-host | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Technologies | Gov ERP + courts/justice | No (gov cloud) | Proprietary |
| Accela | Permitting / licensing | No (gov cloud) | Proprietary |
| Granicus | Engagement + meetings | No (gov cloud) | Proprietary |
| OpenGov | ERP / budgeting / permitting | No (gov cloud) | Proprietary |
| CivicPlus | Municipal web + 311 | No (gov cloud) | Proprietary |
| CentralSquare | Public safety + admin ERP | No (gov cloud) | Proprietary |
| Cityworks | Public asset / work mgmt | No (gov cloud) | Proprietary |
| Mark43 | Public safety (RMS/CAD) | No (gov cloud) | Proprietary |
| CKAN | Open-data portal | Yes | AGPL-3.0 |
| Decidim | Participatory democracy | Yes | AGPL-3.0 |
| Consul Democracy | Citizen participation | Yes | AGPL-3.0 |
| Alaveteli | Freedom of Information | Yes | AGPL-3.0 |
How to choose
- Public-administration ERP / fund accounting – Tyler, OpenGov, or CentralSquare.
- Permitting & licensing – Accela or OpenGov.
- Citizen comms + meetings / legislative – Granicus or CivicPlus.
- Public safety (CAD/RMS) – Mark43 or CentralSquare.
- Self-hosted civic tech – CKAN (open data), Decidim / Consul Democracy (participation), Alaveteli (FOI).
Boundaries
- Nonprofit / human-services case management ->
nonprofit-donor; GIS ->gis-geospatial; generic tools stay in their own categories.
Tools
12 tools.
Accela
Accela is a cloud Civic Platform for permitting, licensing, land management, code enforcement, and citizen access used by state and local government agencies.
License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: OIDC, SAML
ResorsIT usage: Web App with SSO
Access & Identity: Single sign-on
Alaveteli
Alaveteli is mySociety’s open-source Freedom-of-Information request platform (Ruby on Rails) – it powers sites like WhatDoTheyKnow, letting citizens send, track, and publish FOI requests to public bodies.
License: AGPL-3.0-or-later (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: docker, direct · SSO: none
ResorsIT usage: Web App without SSO
Access & Identity: Forward-auth · Vaulted credential
CentralSquare Technologies
CentralSquare is a public-sector software suite spanning public safety (CAD, RMS, 911) and public administration (finance/ERP, community development, utility billing) for cities and counties.
License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML
ResorsIT usage: Web App with SSO
Access & Identity: Single sign-on
Cityworks
GIS-centric public-asset, work-order and permitting management for local government, now delivered as Trimble Unity Maintain cloud SaaS on Esri ArcGIS.
License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: OIDC, SAML
ResorsIT usage: Web App with SSO
Access & Identity: Single sign-on
CivicPlus
CivicPlus is a local-government digital-services platform: municipal websites, 311/citizen request management (SeeClickFix), agenda and meeting management, recreation, and other citizen-facing services.
License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML
ResorsIT usage: Web App with SSO
Access & Identity: Single sign-on
CKAN
CKAN is the leading open-source open-data portal platform, widely used by governments to publish, catalogue, and share datasets with rich metadata, an API, and a data-preview UI.
License: AGPL-3.0-or-later (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: docker, direct · SSO: OIDC, SAML
ResorsIT usage: Web App with SSO
Access & Identity: Single sign-on · Directory / LDAP
Consul Democracy
Consul Democracy is an open-source citizen-participation and e-government platform (Ruby on Rails): debates, proposals, participatory budgeting, voting, and consultations, used by governments worldwide.
License: AGPL-3.0-or-later (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: docker, direct · SSO: OIDC
ResorsIT usage: Web App with SSO
Access & Identity: Single sign-on
Decidim
Decidim is an open-source participatory-democracy platform (Ruby on Rails) for citizen participation: proposals, participatory budgeting, consultations, assemblies, and votes, used by cities and organisations.
License: AGPL-3.0-or-later (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: docker, direct · SSO: OIDC, SAML
ResorsIT usage: Web App with SSO
Access & Identity: Single sign-on
Granicus
Granicus is a government citizen-engagement and digital-services platform: constituent communications (govDelivery), meetings/agenda/legislative management, website and digital services for public agencies.
License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML
ResorsIT usage: Web App with SSO
Access & Identity: Single sign-on
Mark43
Mark43 is a cloud public-safety platform: records management (RMS), computer-aided dispatch (CAD), and analytics for police and public-safety agencies, delivered as government-cloud SaaS.
License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML
ResorsIT usage: Web App with SSO
Access & Identity: Single sign-on
OpenGov
OpenGov is a cloud ERP and civic platform for local government: budgeting and planning, permitting and licensing, procurement, and fund accounting, delivered as government SaaS.
License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML
ResorsIT usage: Web App with SSO
Access & Identity: Single sign-on
Tyler Technologies
Tyler Technologies is the largest US public-sector software vendor, providing ERP (Munis/Enterprise), courts & justice, appraisal & tax, permitting, and payments to state and local government.
License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: OIDC, SAML
ResorsIT usage: Web App with SSO
Access & Identity: Single sign-on
