Salient provides a radical new technology for balancing quality and cost.

Good government is based on a clear understanding of the relationship between spending activity and the desired result, and then having the ability to act in time to make a difference.

Salient’s technology draws from accounting systems, program databases, maps, census/demographic data and more. It generates a clear and coherent accounting of government service activities, which can then be surveyed easily and interactively by both knowledge workers and administrators. The technology is radical because it successfully removes the four barriers to timely apprehension of actionable knowledge, which are:

Latency - Total elapsed time between a user’s formation of a question and satisfactory resolution,

Literacy - Technical and / or analytical expertise sufficient to develop the query and interpret the answer,

Specificity of information - Sufficient to relate specific outputs to individual actions / decisions ,

And dependency on third parties - Typically consultants, analysts, or IT resources to develop either form or content.

Our deliverable is continuous transparency, accountability and better service quality. Our method is a rapid-paced continuous feedback loop for continuous audit, monitoring and decision support, where every need-to-know person can mine vast data stores without technical help, quickly link outcomes to specific inputs, and then act in time to affect future outcomes.