INVISION™
Government
Software
Providing public sector entities and utilities with comprehensive software tools, designed and written using today’s contemporary technology. INVISION is easy to use and designed to make processes quick and efficient.
Engineered by Northern Data Systems, INVISION is feature rich, yet highly flexible. Whether you choose to use a single application and add other applications later you can have the confidence that the entire system is designed to work together.
About INVISION
Serving those who serve the community.
INVISION Applications
At the core of NDS’ financial management system lies Fund Accounting. This powerful tool seamlessly integrates with all other NDS software applications, providing an efficient and comprehensive solution to your fund accounting needs. Fund Accounting includes Accounts Payable, Budgeting, Check Reconciliation, Positive Pay as well as optional Purchase Orders for true Encumbrance Accounting.
INVISION Fund Accounting is a comprehensive multi-fund budgeting and accounting system. It accommodates Inter-fund accounting with automatic Due To/Due From transfers so payments can be made out of a single General Fund, yet be recorded against the correct specific fund. Fund Accounting provides quick online access to account information, including the ability to drill down to subsidiary detail. It also supports unlimited account detail for as many years as are recorded. View brochure.
NDS’ INVISION General Ledger offers robust features to simplify financial processes for public sector organizations. With seamless integration to Payroll, Accounts Payable, Tax Billing, Cash Receipts and other INVISION applications audit control and account reconciliation are fast and effortless. General Ledger’s inherent flexibility enables organizations to use existing account structures with little or no changes.
INVISION General Ledger offers unparalleled reporting capabilities with an intuitive user-defined account structure, allowing for ultimate flexibility and unlimited separate funds. End users benefit from a customizable report designer system where you can create custom fund balance reports or specialized general ledger reports – without compromising control. With multiple year/fiscal period comparisons available at the time of selection, it’s easy to customize reports on-the-fly, making information available to you the way you want, when you want it. View brochure.
INVISION Budgeting offers an efficient way to go through your budgeting process. Easily create working budgets from your GL, view summary or detailed account history and add notes about line items or accounts during the process. With its import/export capability you can export the budget information to Microsoft® Excel for other staff to work on. All changes can be efficiently imported and automatically update the budget. Easy!
Budgeting:
- Budget accounts automatically created from appropriation accounts
- Worksheet and final report formats
- Interactive with current year data
- Multi-step budget cycle processing
INVISION Payroll is a very functional and full-featured exception baseb payroll designed to meet the rigorous demands of the public sector workplace. Fully integrated with other INVISION applications or standalone, Payroll provides your organization with a solid platform to efficiently handle all of your payroll needs. INVISION Payroll offers complete wage reporting including all state and federal required reports as well as retirement reporting. With Payroll you can easily customize unlimited deductions and deduction schedules in addition to multi-department gross pay distribution. Using a highly flexible table driven architecture, Payroll handles all state and federal tax calculations along with state retirement, basic, supplemental and dependent insurances. Payroll supports direct deposit, check reconciliation, benefit accrual, fringe benefit tracking, online check and W-2 access 24/7 and is integrated with Accounts Payable for tax withholding check processing and much more. View brochure.
With INVISION Human Resources, managing your vital HR information is easy. Streamline your processes with this application that enables you to track absences and certifications, as well as track plan compensation strategies. Plus, you can store an unlimited number of documents and files related to your employees in this application – no more paperwork headaches!
INVISION Assessing is an invaluable tool for assessing professionals, enabling them to effectively manage and bill schedules of land, residential and commercial assessments. Leveraging automated value data collection from NDS’ INVISION Appraisal or from third-party appraisal solutions means the most up-to-date information is always at your fingertips! You can also gain instant insights into your valuations with Assessing’s comprehensive reporting and Sales Ratio analysis tools. Information seamlessly flows into the INVISION Tax Billing and Cash Receipts applications for efficient revenue management. View brochure.
INVISION Tax Billing offers convenience and cost-effectiveness through its range of bill types and formats along with options for NDS laser generated bills sent in the mail as well as online bill presentment and payment services. Plus, options for exporting and importing payments directly from mortgage companies to INVISION further simplifies procedures saving you additional time. View brochure.
INVISION Cash/Tax Receipts is designed to deliver flexibility, accuracy and performance when receiving money and payments for tax bills and treasurer’s receipts. Information flows into General Ledger, Appropriation and Revenue type accounts and allows for automated Inter-fund Accounting entries. Individual cash boxes can be easily reconciled with accurate and fast cash-up procedures. Corrections can be performed so that they can be reflected in today’s work. A powerful calendar view of all cash transactions received each day makes it easy to deliver answers. Drill-down support within the calendar view allows you to quickly track down details of a specific transaction or cash amount. View brochure.
INVISION Appraisal has calculated thousands of real estate values on properties of all types and in towns of all sizes. Appraisal offers an easy way to customize your cost schedules. The cost schedules and data are maintained through easy-to-use tools that make automatic recalculations of appraisals efficient. Individuals can only modify data with proper security clearance keeping your valuable data safe and secure. Easy to read appraisal summary sheets provide Assessors with a vital tool in reviewing assessments with the public. Appraisal reports provide the necessary tools for comparing as well as defending assessments. In addition, INVISION Appraisal utilizes an ODBC compliant database that allows the use of many popular third-party reporting tools that can manage “what if” analysis. ODBC also offers seamless data integration for mail merge notification to citizens and analysis through popular spreadsheet programs.
NDS Inventory Management System provides your local government with the tools necessary to focus on those areas vital to controlling inventory costs, while maintaining stock availability. With Inventory you will have more control over purchasing decisions that directly affect the capital you have tied up in inventory.
INVISION Fixed Asset Management is designed to maintain and track Fixed Asset information for buildings, equipment, vehicles, office equipment, IT infrastructure and more. Tracked Fixed Asset information includes acquisition data, service data, depreciation data, maintenance and transfer History. View brochure.
For many cities and towns, the process of registering a motor vehicle is among the most complex and time consuming tasks that is performed on a daily basis. In addition to extensive state reporting requirements, there are significant amounts of cash that need to be accounted for and, more importantly, controlled. INVISION Motor Vehicle Registration is engineered to handle these transactions quickly and efficiently and to give you cash control where you need it most, at the point of registration. Motor Vehicle’s intuitive design simulates a registration form right on the screen and guides the user through all phases of entering registration information. View brochure.
The INVISION Motor Vehicle Registration System removes the guesswork of auditing and cash reconciliation. Controlling registration inventories, calculating and tracking change that is due and tying out daily cash are just a few of the ways that our audit capabilities prevent the number one fear of every town or city…FRAUD and THEFT!
INVISION Licensing is designed to handle and meet the requirements of pet and game licensing for your local government organization. Developed to provide the utmost in flexibility, Licensing easily handles all pet and game registration tasks. Licensing can track vital dates for rabies shots, registrations, neutering so that you have complete control when you field calls from your animal control officer requesting information on potential strays.
For game registrations you can maintain resident or non-resident information about whom the license has been issued to as well as the number, class and issue date of the license. View brochure.
NDS’ Virtual Clerk connects local government organizations and utilities with their citizens and consumers 7/24/365 and provides your organization with the tools to easily and effectively take your services to the highest level. Constituents and consumers can quickly access property values, assessing data, tax bills, payments, account history, and other vital information on demand, while also allowing you to improve operational efficiencies. View brochure.
With INVISION Cemetery Management you can securely and easily track the details of your cemeteries. Your cemetery layout with open plots, owned plots and interments, is only a click away when using the INVISION Cemetery Management Software. Demographic information, type of interment, funeral home, organizations and veteran status can be included. With 1-stop record management you can store an unlimited number of documents and images for each grave, which you can view and print at the touch of a button. With INVISION Cemetery, communities can quickly and easily answer questions about interments. And, you have peace of mind knowing your internment information is reliable and accurate.
INVISION Features
- Microsoft® .NET Technology
- Flexible & Efficient Software Delivery – Cloud Solutions or In-house
- Point & Click Summary with drill-down to details from a single screen
- Robust Reporting with extensive export capabilities
- Customizible Reports with simple-to-use report writers
- Electronic Reports Archiving for information on demand and at your fingertips when you need it
- Wild Card Searches & Type ahead functionality to quickly find information
- Seamless Interfaces with third-parties for easy sharing of data
- Role Based Security
- Detailed Audit Trails