Facet provides a web-based decision support software system to automate the analysis and document generation for community planning processes. Facet solutions supports all aspects of decision making involved in creating and implementing a decision support tool:
*Defining realistic scenarios (alternative plans and policies)
*Predicting impacts for each alternative
*Analyzing trade-offs between scenarios and policy alternatives
*Supporting stakeholder interaction, through public outreach and elicitation
*Improve operational efficiencies
*Developing and testing consistent policies
*Structuring decisions
*Capture and publish planning documents
*Generating automated report cards that show how alternatives and actual results score against a common set of indicators.
The planning tool is used to capture all the data (including maps and images), background information, stakeholder input, analysis, and results of the entire planning process. When the planning analysis is finished the website provides the bulk of the content for the planning documents. This makes it much easier to write the paper versions of the plans.