Socrata

Socrata, Inc. develops and provides cloud solutions for open data and data-driven governments. The company helps public sector organizations improve transparency, citizen service, and data-driven decision-making. Its products and solutions include Open Data Portal that simplifies data movement to the cloud making data to upload, query, analyze, visualize, and share; Open Performance (GovStat), which not only helps clients to set goals but also measures their impact against data, perform broad analysis, and share results automatically; Open Data Apps, an ecosystem of hosted data to analyze, create products, and share back; and Apps Marketplace that features applications for citizens, businesses, and local government. The companys solutions also comprise Open Data Network that streamlines the access and syndication of open data; Socrata Platform that enables clients to access data and create new products for researchers, developers, and entrepreneurs; Open Data API, which makes Socrata-hosted dataset accessible and searchable, and combines with other Web services; API Foundry that allows clients to build customized APIs and ensure that data is available to developers; and open source community, open standards, and data portability and interoperability solutions. Its technologies unlock data trapped in enterprise silos, mobilize and transform it into useful information that everyone access, visualize, share, and reuse. The company serves state and local governments, federal governments, multilateral and non-governmental organizations, and health sector in the United States and internationally. Socrata, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Yelp. The company was formerly known as Blist, Inc. and changed its name to Socrata, Inc. in May 2009. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Seattle, Washington with additional offices in London and Washington, D.C.