Halifax Regional Municipality Technographics
Halifax Regional Municipality Technographics, Software Purchases, AI and Digital Transformation Initiatives
Discover the latest software purchases and digital transformation initiatives being undertaken by Halifax Regional Municipality and its business and technology executives. Each quarter our research team identifies on-prem and cloud applications that are being used by the 576 Halifax Regional Municipality employees from the public (Press Releases, Customer References, Testimonials, Case Studies and Success Stories) and proprietary sources.
During our research, we have identified that Halifax Regional Municipality has purchased the following applications: Microsoft Power BI for Analytics and BI in 2022, Microsoft 365 for Collaboration in 2015, Swiftype for Application, Web and Enterprise Search in 2018 and the related IT decision-makers and key stakeholders.
Our database provides customer insight and contextual information on which enterprise applications and software systems Halifax Regional Municipality is running and its propensity to invest more and deepen its relationship with Microsoft , Swiftype , Intuit or identify new suppliers as part of their overall Digital and IT transformation projects to stay competitive, fend off threats from disruptive forces, or comply with internal mandates to improve overall enterprise efficiency.
We have been analyzing Halifax Regional Municipality revenues, which have grown to $68.0 million in 2024, plus its IT budget and roadmap, cloud software purchases, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions for Halifax Regional Municipality intention to invest in emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Blockchain, Autonomous Database or in cloud-based ERP, HCM, CRM, EPM, Procurement or Treasury applications.
Halifax Regional Municipality Tech Stack and Enterprise Applications
Halifax Regional Municipality Analytics and BI
Vendor |
Previous System |
Application |
Category |
Market |
VAR/SI |
When |
Live |
Insight |
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| Microsoft | Legacy | Microsoft Power BI | Analytics and BI | Analytics and BI | n/a | 2022 | 2022 |
In 2022 Halifax Regional Municipality implemented Microsoft Power BI to extend its Analytics and BI capabilities. Microsoft Power BI has been embedded on the municipal website to publish interactive, public facing dashboards that present civic and operational datasets for both external transparency and internal consumption.
The deployment centers on authored Power BI reports and curated datasets, configured with scheduled refresh and segregation between public dashboards and staff facing reports. Governance has been structured around report publishing workflows, dataset lifecycle management, and role based access controls to separate citizen facing content from administrative analytics, supporting municipal communications and operational reporting.
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Halifax Regional Municipality Collaboration
Vendor |
Previous System |
Application |
Category |
Market |
VAR/SI |
When |
Live |
Insight |
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| Microsoft | Legacy | Microsoft 365 | Collaboration | Collaboration | n/a | 2015 | 2015 |
In 2015 Halifax Regional Municipality implemented Microsoft 365 as its primary Collaboration platform, and public site inspection indicates Microsoft 365 artifacts are used on the municipal website. The implementation positions Microsoft 365 as the central productivity and communication layer for municipal staff and web content management across departments.
Configuration details align with standard Microsoft 365 functional modules, including Exchange Online for enterprise email and calendaring, SharePoint Online for intranet and web content publishing, Microsoft Teams for real time communication, OneDrive for user file storage, and Office desktop and web applications for document authoring. Microsoft 365 is presented as the organizing application for these Collaboration capabilities and for staff productivity workflows.
Operational design signals a centralized Microsoft 365 tenant model with tenant administration, role based access controls, and information governance to support municipal business functions such as communications, records management, and internal collaboration. Governance and workflow controls are implemented through built in Microsoft 365 administration and policy configuration to align publishing and collaboration practices across municipal departments.
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Halifax Regional Municipality Content Management
Vendor |
Previous System |
Application |
Category |
Market |
VAR/SI |
When |
Live |
Insight |
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| Swiftype | Legacy | Swiftype | Application, Web and Enterprise Search | Content Management | n/a | 2018 | 2018 |
In 2018, Halifax Regional Municipality deployed Swiftype on its public website. The deployment places Swiftype as the primary site search engine for halifax.ca, handling content discovery across municipal pages, news, and service information, and establishing a hosted search layer integrated into the site front end to surface civic content to residents and stakeholders.
The Swiftype implementation is categorized as Application, Web and Enterprise Search and leverages crawler-based indexing and RESTful query delivery to support relevance tuning and search analytics. Functional capabilities implemented include index scheduling, relevance and synonym configuration, result ranking, and usage telemetry to inform content owners. Operational coverage is the public website and the citizen-facing business functions it supports, with governance centered on content owners and the municipality’s digital services group managing crawl profiles and relevance adjustments.
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Halifax Regional Municipality CRM
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Previous System |
Application |
Category |
Market |
VAR/SI |
When |
Live |
Insight |
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Marketing Automation | CRM |
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2017 | 2017 |
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Halifax Regional Municipality ITSM
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Previous System |
Application |
Category |
Market |
VAR/SI |
When |
Live |
Insight |
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Application Performance Management | ITSM |
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2017 | 2017 |
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IT Service Management | ITSM |
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2021 | 2021 |
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Halifax Regional Municipality IaaS
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Previous System |
Application |
Category |
Market |
VAR/SI |
When |
Live |
Insight |
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Application Hosting and Computing Services | IaaS |
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2022 | 2022 |
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IT Decision Makers and Key Stakeholders at Halifax Regional Municipality
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Apps Being Evaluated by Halifax Regional Municipality Executives
| Date | Company | Status | Vendor | Product | Category | Market |
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| 2024-10-25 | Halifax Regional Municipality | Evaluated | UKG | UKG Ready (ex Kronos Workforce Ready) | Workforce Management | HCM |