Overview
The Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF) is Virginia’s leader in land conservation, protecting more than 800,000 acres in 107 counties and independent cities. Due to an accelerated increase in the number of new easements recorded over the past decade, VOF’s current technologies and workflows struggled to support the needs of the staff adequately and efficiently. In addition to the expanding workload facing VOF, there has also been a dramatic increase in public information requests through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). VOF desired to create a centralized solution for making VOF’s work to manage protected open space more streamlined, consistent, strategic, and accessible.
Timmons Group worked with VOF to develop a web-based application called TerraTrac. Integrated with a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, Document Management system, and GIS, TerraTrac allows VOF easement and stewardship staff to track and manage critical enterprise land conservation data.
TerraTrac eliminated data duplication issues and many manual processes. VOF staff now have the tools they need to improve customer interactions, enter data and content in a standardized workflow, manage a variety of projects, be confident in the data and statuses of issues and projects, and easily compile and report information. TerraTrac has made VOF’s work to manage protected open space more efficient, consistent, strategic, and accessible.
