Damage Assessment
Identify Natural Disaster Losses Promptly
A digitized process can simplify the complex task of quantifying property damage caused by a catastrophe.
Challenge
Calculating and substantiating accurate costs of destruction of commercial or residential property is a complicated and subjective task that could cost agencies significant money if performed incorrectly.
Solution
The SimpliGov platform helps:
- Agencies collect basic data around dwelling type, residence status, business type, insurance, impaired structures, and additional damages to surrounding streets, bridges, water lines, and other public property
- Estimate the damages along your guidelines or those of FEMA or another agency
- Create separate approval workflows for general funds, FEMA, or other sources of relief aid
Features Used: Workflow Automation | Smart Forms | Document Generation | SimpliSign
SimpliGov in Action
- Intuitive digital form builder with customizable fields, dropdown menus, yes/no buttons, checkboxes, and text boxes
- Prebuilt and tailorable form templates
- Autopopulation of fields (e.g., complete zip code upon entry of address)
- Conditional logic (e.g., display different follow-up questions for commercial and residential applicants)
- Translation support for dozens of languages
- Workflow automation to route applications through emergency services, finance, administration, and other relevant stakeholders in proper order
- Autogenerated email alerts to prompt pending reviewers
- Built-in calculators that adhere to agency damage appraisal guidelines
- Portal to upload photos and supporting documentation
- Dashboard to view status of submissions
- Audit trails of correspondence between employees and with applicants
- Generation of reports by zip code, property damage amount, dwelling, or other field
- Automatic creation of PDFs of final assessments
- Integration with mapping/GIS systems
- No-code architecture for quick go-live
- SimpliSign electronic signature add-on
Benefits
- Quick response to urgent citizen needs
- Firmer handle on overall costs of damages
- High visibility and transparency help eliminate graft
- Expedient user experience frees employees up to tackle other important recovery activities
- Compliance with federal funding guidelines
Ready to begin?
Automating your processes need not be a daunting task. Contact us and we will show you how SimpliGov can help you achieve your goals in record time.
Ready to begin?
Automating your processes need not be a daunting task. Contact us and we will show you how SimpliGov can help you achieve your goals in record time.
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