Building Permits
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AMANDA provides local Building Departments with a comprehensive building permit solution to improve operational efficiency by automating business processes for the application, review and approval of building permits.

Building Permits are an essential means for local governments to safeguard constituents and provide an important source of revenue. Our experience and knowledge of industry leading practices enables us to work with you to implement efficient solutions.

Deliver Citizen Centric Services

AMANDA Public Portal and AMANDA Request for Service (RFS) allow you to integrate AMANDA access into your existing web portal and call center. Citizens and businesses can submit applications, check their status, receive comments, view inspection results and add attachments to building permit applications online in real-time, anytime. The call center has access to real-time cross-department data to provide a single point of contact for service.

Standardize and Streamline Workflow

AMANDA Permitting’s intelligent business processes streamline and automate your department’s workflow to reduce the building permit lifecycle. Through standardizing workflow in AMANDA you can facilitate interdepartmental communication and processes.

Conduct Mobile Inspections

AMANDA’s mobile solutions provide inspectors with comprehensive access to codes/by-laws, GPS routing, property data and inspection history. Inspectors have the ability to capture signatures, print reports and take photographs. Provide inspectors with tools that let them spend more time in the field and make informed decisions.

Integrate with Other Enterprise Systems

AMANDA works seamlessly with other enterprises systems to leverage your existing investments. Integrate with external GIS applications, financial systems, websites, IVR systems and 311 or call center applications. Eliminate the need for multiple points of data entry, reduce IT complexity and decrease the total cost of service delivery.

Manage and Measure Performance

Gain insights into your organization’s performance and stay on top of upcoming deadlines and tasks with AMANDA Executive Monitor. Measure your application intake, lifecycle and other valuable metrics for your organization to facilitate performance benchmarking.

Read more about AMANDA Permitting.

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Case Studies

  • Province of Nova Scotia

    Learn why Service Nova Scotia & Municipal Relations' use of AMANDA for management of business processing needs was expanded to several other agencies and ministries in the province.

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  • Northwest Territories

    The Northwest Territories adopted AMANDA to record permit applications for elevators, boilers, pressure vessel and electrical installations. AMANDA is also being used to administer licenses to electrical workers, gas fitters, welders and operating engineers.

    Read The Study »

  • Province of Newfoundland

    AMANDA is used in Newfoundland's Crown Lands Division for plan review, inspections and authorizing use on Crown Land.

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What Our Clients Say

  • "Support do a wonderful job. The quality of their work is high."
    Kimberlee Miller, Application System Administrator
    Jefferson County CO
  • "We had very short timelines and our request for assistance was answered timely and professionally. We have been running in a live environment for over two weeks, and we have had very few technical glitches (if any). Again, I want to thank you and CSDC Systems for being supportive and professional."
    Catherine Baldelli, Coordinator, Business Systems
    Town of Milton, ON
  • "AMANDA is part of our overall initiative to automate processes throughout the city."
    Karen Sharp, Project Office Manager
    City of Austin TX
  • "We have benefited greatly – AMANDA has been a big part of this."
    Karen Wingate, Assistant City Treasurer
    City of Burlington VT
  • "Your professionalism, expert knowledge of the system and the business, and your adept facilitation enabled a thorough and complete assessment of our current operation. You have helped to engage our team in looking forward to some critical evolutionary steps with the product, the business and the associated governance."
    Leslie Looker, Project Development Advisor
    City of Kitchener, ON
  • "The system saves us 10-15 minutes per permit at the counter. Although we were closed on Veteran’s Day, our online system still issued 15 permits."
    Bill Gunther, Project Manager
    City of St. Paul MN
  • "You guys are geniuses! That is the exact solution that we needed. Thanks for the help."
    Noel Yunginger,
    City of Portland, OR
  • "CSDC continues to make giant strides in improving their customer support, and I believe it is among the best in that area when comparing it to other software application providers. Most suggestions for future improvements are acted upon and incorporated immediately."
    Craig Wilson, Supervisor of Applications, Information Systems
    Town of Whitby ON
  • "I’m very pleased with how well CSDC is doing. We really appreciate AMANDA."
    Leo DeLoyde, General Manager
    City of Burlington ON
  • "[CSDC provides] support like no other software company we deal with. Great response time, ability to search past issues experienced by other clients to get answers to our problems/queries, Availability of use of forum to seek advice from other clients directly. All of these factors combined provide us with an outstanding service level that is second to none!"
    Kathy Nesbitt, Application Analyst / Database Co-ordinator
    City of St. Catharines ON
  • CSDC did an amazing job of taking what we feel are complex business rules, and breaking them all out into their component parts....We really couldn’t see how this could be accomplished in less than several months, but it truly appears that you have the basics of our business well in hand.
    Margaret Armagost, Administrative Assisstant, Iowa Board of Nursing
    State of Iowa
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