PowerDMS by NEOGOV Reviews & Insights

About a year ago, I was made the Accreditation Manager for my division (Corrections/County Sheriff's Office). I cannot imagine trying to do my job without PowerDMS by NEOGOV. I deal with policies all day long, and I had an audit pretty early on in my tenure. PowerDMS by NEOGOV was invaluable before, during, and after the audit.

I don't have anything else to compare it to, but I cannot recommend PowerDMS by NEOGOV enough.

At our police department, we were struggling to manage forms and every officer had a different version of the form that they had saved or printed somewhere and there was no consistency. We also were using a printed policy and procedure manual which was not updated very often. The updates were printed and handed to each employee and we trusted them to remove the outdated policy and replace it, however not sure that got done. Now with the PowerDMS Solution, all employees (sworn and non-sworn), can easily search for any form, policy, contract, agreement, etc. and have full confidence they have the current version for increased consistency. We also use PowerDMS to document every employees training throughout the year and also through their career. Beyond that, we use PowerDMS to create courses, and assign certificates complete with tests and surveys on a variety of topics. I would highly recommend this product and am so glad that we found this company when we did. The onboarding process was very smooth and they held our hands as we developed "our" system. If you are on the fence, give this a try - you'll be glad that you did.

This software is very well suited for law enforcement agencies of all sizes from 5 to 5000 officers. There is a mobile app that allows officers to quickly and easily search while out in the field or on a call. They can quickly review a policy, locate a form, pull up a map and much more using either the mobile app or the desktop application.

PowerDMS is a crucial aspect of CFAI accreditation management for our department. Policies, procedures, and accreditation documents themselves are easily managed. Review and revision of documents through workflows ensures compliance.

General Operating (GOG) management is efficient. Review reminders are available to be scheduled automatically. CFAI accreditation management is also efficient, allowing managers to track revisions, create workflows for updates, and even retrieve archived documents for reference.

My agency has never used PowerDMS tests or surveys; unsure of how well they work.

To control signed documents and published documents. To share training with staff.

This platform will help any organization manage documents, policies, and procedures that can be shared with staff in a digital format.

We use PowerDMS to house all our organization's internal policies, documents, etc. Previously, we only had links to policies that were all structured in Word/PDF documents. PowerDMS has allowed us to organize in a much more efficient way as well as create structure and labels for a more user-friendly experience for our employees.

It is very well suited for organizing important organizational documents, and policies that the entire organization needs access to. It allows the database to be open to all users and for users to find/sort/organize/prioritize the items that are most important and relevant to them; versus having to search through a whole database without efficient search criteria methods.

We use PowerDMS to manage our departmental forms and policies and other reference documents used by the agency. Our Accreditation Team also uses the software to manage all aspects of our accreditation program compliance. All employees use PowerDMS to automate training requests and many other intra-departmental communications via the PowerDMS approval workflow feature.

Getting 100% signature compliance on policy updates used to take months but since automating out policy management updates in PowerDMS, we can get 100% compliance in as little as 2 weeks. Internal requests for things such as training, purchases, etc used to be pushed up the chain of command via a paper copy and would often get misplaced or lost in a full mailbox. Using PowerDMS to automate those requests put the power back in the requester's hands and increased transparency and accountability across the organization.

We use PowerDMS for all Public Safety policies as well as any internal County policies.

PowerDMS is great for the niche it was developed for - signing policies. As a government organization, we have many policies that must be signed by employees yearly so PowerDMS makes that process so simple.

PowerDMS is used by UCF Student Health Services as it is an accredited entity with AAAHC (PDMS supports). ALL SHS policies/procedures are managed in PDMS as well as the majority of employee training. SHS uses PDMS to manage the assessment for AAAHC's review. The last review was in October 2021.

I think it is most beneficial to companies who are at least 20 - 25 employees. Anything less than that it seems it would be a lot to pay to manage policy/training communication to such a small organization.

At NPD we used Power DMS to house all of our language for the department. Also, we use it for training and CALEA Accreditation.

Power DMS is excellent to use and house language. It is very easily navigated, and everything is housed together. I use Power DMS for all of our language, directives, maps, phone numbers, EPP, school maps, it is a great tool for officers on the street when they need to look up information.

PowerDMS is used across the whole organization. PowerDMS has made such an impact with collecting, processing, storing, and disseminating information that it is hard to imagine how we functioned pre-PowerDMS. The platform, in my role as accreditation manager, has enabled me to accurately track and update thousands of documents with the push of a button. Whereas, in the past, those same tasks would take months, to locate, update, staff, and collect signatures if necessary.

PowerDMS is best suited for managing large quantities of documents.